We’ve all been in that moment: kind of lost, staring down a street, searching for our destination, disoriented. Maybe we ask a passerby for directions or land in the right place by sheer luck. Or we ...

A 1908 map of the pneumatic telegram service, a 1950s proposed subway bomb shelter map and an interactive walking tour plan with attractions that existed in Manhattan 400 years ago (think forests and ...

There’s nothing like sitting by the fire with a good book, except maybe sitting by the fire with a good map — or better yet, a good book about maps. I’ve noticed an upsurge in cartographic interest ...

Amsterdam, from ‘Civitates orbis terrarum’ (1576) by Georg Braun (all images courtesy Taschen) “Kindly and most esteemed reader, we hereby place on the market the next book of the most noble cities of ...

Early Bermuda maps have long been favourites of collectors worldwide, from vague and dangerous-looking first-encounter representations to lush, detail-packed manuscript renditions. But over the ...

Join Dr. Henry Daniel, Distinguished Research Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, for the launch of his new book, Re-Choreographing Cortical & Cartographic ...

Editor's note: This is a work in progress! Please help us out by adding your recommendations and opinions about the books on the list in the comments. As we try to learn more about maps and how to ...

The first known map was a painting of a cityscape and an erupting volcano. Found on the wall of a baked-mud dwelling in the ancient Catal Huyuk settlement in present-day Turkey, it was drawn around ...

More than 30 international contributors have produced a ground-breaking new book on tactile mapping for people with visual ...