Boston Public Library’s Leventhal Map Center is exhibiting maps of volcanoes, catacombs, mines, subways, sewage systems, and other underground cartography.
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18th-Century Nautical Charts Show Radical Coral Reef Loss in Florida
Researchers compared 18th-century nautical charts to contemporary ocean data, revealing a dramatic loss of Florida’s coral reefs.
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An Atlas Maps the End of the Earth
The Atlas for the End of the World maps the end of Earth as a biodiverse resource for human exploitation.
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A New Website Tells the Stories of Over 4,000 Lynchings in the United States
The Equal Justice Initiative, with the support of Google, launched an online interactive that visualizes lynchings from the Civil War to World War II in 20 American states.
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Using Google Street View Data to Track Urban Trees
MIT’s project Treepedia maps the protective green canopy of trees in cities around the world, and the places where this nature is missing.
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The Octopus, a Motif of Evil in Historical Propaganda Maps
Since the 19th century, the motif of an octopus on propaganda maps has represented the inhuman spread of evil, its tentacles grasping for land and power.
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The New York Public Library Has a “Digital Time-Travel Service” for Its Historical Maps
The New York Public Library’s NYC Space/Time Directory launched a project that plots 5,000 digitized street maps across the five boroughs, organized by decade from 1850 to 1950.
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A New Guide Maps the Overlooked Brutalism of Paris
The Brutalist Paris Map plots 40 sites of postwar architecture in Paris that are far off the well-trod tourist path.
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An Online Platform Tracks the Suppression of Civic Freedoms Worldwide
The CIVICUS Monitor is an interactive map that gathers news about crackdowns on civil society in 134 countries.
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An Atlas for the Mythical Places that Have Populated Our Maps
The Phantom Atlas chronicles centuries of fictional locations that were included on maps of the world.
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Creating an Atlas of Overlooked Cartography for New York City
Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s book Nonstop Metropolis charts the overlooked geographic history of New York City.
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CIA Declassifies Maps from 75 Years of Surveillance
To mark the 75th anniversary of its Cartography Center, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) shares decades of declassified maps.