How a riddle involving one river, two islands and seven bridges prompted a mathematician to lay the foundation for graph theory
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Wine maps are appreciated mainly by the select few who are both cartophiles and oenophiles. Those who are either or neither face a formidable obstacle to cartographic enjoyment, inherent in […]
Two straight lines connect Glastonbury to Armageddon
A fabulous Rheinpanorama from the early days of leisure travel
What if colonisers and colonised swapped places (and climates)?
No matter how detailed the map, for some it will always be large enough to separate Us from Them
Who you gonna call? Somebody inside your data community, that’s who.
Finding maps that are sufficiently strange and beautiful is only half the joy of making this blog; the other is writing up the story to go along with them. But […]
Elm Point and Buffalo Bay Point are quite possibly America’s most obscure exclaves in Canada.
Michigan does not have a monopoly on hand-based cartography.
It only has one job: instil map readers with fear and revulsion.
On East German transit maps of Berlin, the city’s western enclave was an unmentionable obstacle
It had been ages since I’d been in Shoreditch – West Londoners generally never stray east of Tower Bridge – but visiting relatives were determined to inspect the cool clubs […]
But did the map make the Soviet Hobbits more communist than their western counterparts?
The first set of maps labels each and every one of the states as best and worst at something. All of those distinctions, both the favourable and the unfavourable kind, are backed up by some sort of evidence.
And not just a map: also a timeline, a literary checklist and a historiography
Where is Twin Peaks? The fictional town at the centre of the eponymous TV series isn’t too hard to pinpoint. But things aren’t so clear cut as they seem.
A limited-edition map celebrated the coincidence of a patriotic occation with a pig-centric one.
Rank the blocks of some of the world’s most famous cities by size instead of location, and this is what they look like.
The release last week of a sonar scan showing an anomalous formation on the bottom of the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland set off a storm of wild […]
As presented by Life Magazine to its anxious readership in 1942.
Football – yes, we mean soccer – divides the British capital into a medieval-looking map of invisible territories, frontlines and enclaves.
Did a cheeky Ozzy intern change this map as a nod to his separatist mates back home?
BY JASON SILVA “Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.” –Alphonse de Lamartine, French romantic poet. PART I: DREAMING WITH […]
Metropolis, Illinois, a tiny town with a grand name, is a distant echo of this area’s planned greatness
Last week, Big Think blogger Frank Jacobs featured “The United States of Movies,” on his blog Strange Maps. The map, originally posted Reddit, assigned a movie to every U.S. state […]
The continent would be ruled by ten neat little empires.