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  Mark Reed

  

  Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps

  The Guardian - Robert Macfarlane, Frances Hardinge and Miraphora Mina

  From Moominland to the Marauder’s Map, writers Robert Macfarlane, Frances Hardinge and Harry Potter cartographer Miraphora Mina unfold their favourite maps In the beginning was the map. Robert Louis Stevenson drew it in the summer of 1881 to entertain his 12-year-old stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, while …

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  Mark Reed

  

  How a Modern-Day Mapmaker Does His Job

  The Atlantic - Bourree Lam

  Tom Harrison, a Californian cartographer, explains what goes into a good map and why making one can take nearly two years. Mapmaking is a huge production these days: Google reportedly has over 1,000 full-time employees and 6,000 contractors working on its digital maps. So it’s easy to forget that …

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  Mark Reed

  

  Who Maps the World?

  citylab.com - Sarah Holder

  “For most of human history, maps have been very exclusive,” said Marie Price, the first woman president of the American Geographical Society, …

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  Mark Reed

  

  Illustrator Creates Colorful Hand-Drawn Maps Filled With Playful Details

  My Modern Met - Emma Taggart

  London-based illustrator Jenni Sparks creates hand-drawn maps of major cities across the world. However, these aren’t your ordinary tourist maps—the artist breathes new life into the traditional craft of cartography with her colorful, playful style. From London to New York City, ever map …

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  Mark Reed

  

  Made up places and costly mistakes: a history of unfortunate maps – in pictures

  The Guardian

  West Indies, 1506 Since the earliest printed map to show the Americas was produced a mere 14 years after Christopher Columbus made American landfall in 1492, it was still believed that he had reached Asia. Accordingly, this map shows North America welded onto eastern Siberia, with Cuba and …

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  Mark Reed

  

  Why Ancient Mapmakers Were Terrified of Blank Spaces

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