tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2011-10-07://5 2013-05-16T12:35:12Z The Map Room ended in June 2011. These are blog posts about maps made since then. Movable Type Pro 5.04 45.60073876.494434 tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4825 2013-05-16T12:26:00Z 2013-05-16T12:35:12Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ The Cassini team has released a global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan. What makes this map interesting is the fact that, due to its thick atmosphere, Titan can only be mapped by radar during...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4824 2013-05-16T11:19:20Z 2013-05-16T11:20:36Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ Google announced a complete redesign of Google Maps at their I/O developer conference yesterday. The new maps are vector-based, take up the entire browser window and change based on the context --...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4817 2013-05-08T11:04:48Z 2013-05-08T11:14:00Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ OpenStreetMap has launched a new map editing interface that runs, for the first time, in HTML5. (Potlatch, the previous web-based map editor, uses Flash, and JOSM runs in Java, which I always thought...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4805 2013-04-21T20:25:40Z 2013-04-21T20:29:48Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ A map-making competition asking participants to submit maps of their fictional worlds? That's precisely the sort of thing I should bring to your attention, now that it's been brought to mine. First...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4792 2013-04-04T14:04:33Z 2013-04-04T17:59:31Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ In 2007 Eddie Jabbour released the KickMap, a map of the New York subway system that tried to square the circle of various competing and controversial New York subway map designs. The KickMap later...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4791 2013-04-03T17:20:20Z 2013-04-03T17:35:00Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ A new book collects hand-drawn maps of Manhattan submitted by both anonymous and notable New Yorkers: Becky Cooper's Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers. It...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4779 2013-03-14T16:52:01Z 2013-03-14T17:02:40Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ Via Kottke, news of a new map book that sounds rather interesting: A Map of the World: The World According to Illustrators and Storytellers, described by the publisher as "a compelling collection of...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4773 2013-02-28T15:35:17Z 2013-02-28T18:17:03Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ This is something I've been meaning to write for a while. I should have written it last December, during the hullaballoo over Apple's maps, but I've never been one to strike when the iron is hot....<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4772 2013-02-25T13:47:45Z 2013-02-25T14:06:29Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ My search for examples of maps being used as a fantasy fiction trope brought me to the works of James A. Owen, namely, his Imaginarium Geographica series of young-adult novels, six volumes and...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4765 2013-02-14T01:43:18Z 2013-02-14T01:49:24Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ In 2010 I blogged about Neil Freeman's reimagined United States where the 50 states were redrawn so that each state had the same population. (That map had been circulating for a few years prior to...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4763 2013-02-11T21:17:06Z 2013-02-11T21:22:45Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ NASA has released a free-air gravity map of the Moon: "If the Moon were a perfectly smooth sphere of uniform density, the gravity map would be a single, featureless color, indicating that the force...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4762 2013-02-11T21:09:07Z 2013-02-11T21:15:32Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ Terry Pratchett once declared the Discworld unmappable ("There are no maps. You can't map a sense of humour."); all the same, there is now an interactive map of principal city Ankh-Morpork for the...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4757 2013-01-24T14:50:59Z 2013-01-24T14:57:57Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ The Book of Thomas: Volume One: Heaven by Robert Boyczuk is set in a medieval world ruled by the Catholic Church from Rome, but that world is not ours: it's a built world of concentric spheres, with...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4750 2013-01-15T11:51:00Z 2013-01-23T12:16:40Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ Simon Garfield's On the Map is the third book of its kind that I've encountered, akin to Mike Parker's Map Addict (review) or Ken Jennings's Maphead (review): Maps 101 -- an introductory book for...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2013://5.4745 2013-01-07T15:53:24Z 2013-01-07T16:03:04Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ Saladin Ahmed's essay on the NPR website argues that the appeal of epic fantasy isn't in its plots, characters or themes; it's in its creation of a vividly detailed secondary world. [A]t its best,...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.)