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Mapping as Process

A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption

Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process

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    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
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September 21, 2021

A Disturbing Map...

September 21, 2021/ Matthew Edney
A Disturbing Map...

I find a modern rendition of William Hubbard’s map of New England, published in two variants in Boston and London in 1677, rather upsetting.

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September 13, 2021

Constructing a Feminized Landscape

September 13, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Constructing a Feminized Landscape

A 1906 map of Beverly Hills subdivision in the shape of a woman!

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September 13, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
September 02, 2021

It's a Fake -- for real this time

September 02, 2021/ Matthew Edney
It's a Fake -- for real this time

The Vinland Map is finally, officially acknowledged as a fake. So, who faked it?

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September 02, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
August 23, 2021

Reworking the Founding Disciplinary Narrative along Cognitive Lines

August 23, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Reworking the Founding Disciplinary Narrative along Cognitive Lines

Henry Castner and Barbara Petchenik Reconfigure Arthur Robinson’s History of Cartography

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August 20, 2021

Some Thoughts on Jacques Bertin’s “[Carto]graphic Semiology”

August 20, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Some Thoughts on Jacques Bertin’s “[Carto]graphic Semiology”

Perhaps a “hot take”

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July 21, 2021

More on the Fetishization of Triangulation (and on the Possible Schizophrenia of Recent Map History)

July 21, 2021/ Matthew Edney
More on the Fetishization of Triangulation (and on the Possible Schizophrenia of Recent Map History)

Jean Picard’s “Corrected Map of France” was not by triangulation …

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July 14, 2021

Triangulation ... it's not just "doing things with triangles"

July 14, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Triangulation ... it's not just "doing things with triangles"

I’m a bit of a purist on the matter

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June 30, 2021

Modern Histories of Geodesy and Surveying

June 30, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Modern Histories of Geodesy and Surveying

An overview

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June 28, 2021

Suppositions of Location and of Similitude

June 28, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Suppositions of Location and of Similitude

Key principles in the assessment of old maps

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Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process is a space for me to explore a new approach to understanding mapping and its history. The exploration will eventually contribute to a book of the same name.

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The books …

Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations in Brill Research Perspectives on Map History. Available from Brill in print and as an ebook ($87).

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Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography, edited by myself and Mary Pedley. Available from the University of Chicago Press, in print and ebook ($500).

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Available from the University of Chicago Press in paperback ($30), e-book ($10–30), or cloth ($90).

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Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.

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