cartography

Although not a single map, this projection type came out in 2021 and is said to be the least distorted invented so far: https://vanderbei.princeton.edu/planets_webgl/GottPlanets.html (you can click a location to centre it, but I think you have to press reset to do it again). This list of...

This is really interesting: The London Medieval Murder Map https://www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk/vrcresearch/london-medieval-murder-map Whilst the page itself gives some basic information, here's a more detailed explanation...

Can anyone help with this? Many years ago, I was shown by someone outdoorsy how to translate contour lines from a map into a side-on outline of the hill itself. Unless he was making it up and trying to impress me, this guy was able to use the individual contour lines to gradually build...

Apologies if there already is a thread somewhere for this fascinating topic. I recently read up about the cartographer Philippe Buache (1700-1773), one of whose maps is centred on Antarctica and even shows the central channel between the land masses: Comparing this with a recent Nat Geo image...

Map of Vinland carbon dated The article is available online at http://www.radiocarbon.org.

Columbus probably had access to maps like those of Piri Ries, which gave him the confidance to traverse the ocean.