fuck yeah cartography!

businessinsider:

15 overlay maps that will change the way you see the world

mapsdesign:

Norway, Sweden, Finland. Pergamon World Atlas by Polish Army Topography Service (1967)

globemakers:

Continuing on with #GlobeFacts Belgium IV

Belgium has been producing chocolate for almost 400 years – the first evidence of chocolate production in Belgium dates back to 1635

Today Belgium produces over 173,000 tons of the stuff a year, and has an estimated 2,000 chocolate shops

Antwerp is the world’s diamond capital – with an estimated annual turnover of more than EUR 20 billion, around three times more than the next competitor (US). Diamonds have been traded here since 1447, and today the city handles more than 80 percent of the world’s rough diamonds and 50 percent of all cut diamonds

The Flemish jeweller Lodewyk van Bercken is credited to inventing the first pear cut diamond and the polishing wheel (scaif), which uses diamond dust to cut diamonds to achieve greater precision and more complex cuts. His statue can be seen near Antwerp’s diamond district

Napoleon’s bid for European domination ended at the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium – after conquering much of continential Europe in the early 19th century, French military leader and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in 1815 by allied forces, ending the Napoleonic era of European history, the Napoleonic Wars and Napoleon’s Hundred Days’ reign

Continued tomorrow with more #BelgiumFacts

Pictured : Isis painting an 80cm Galileo in Mint Green | www.bellerbyandco.com
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michaelmoonsbookshop:

North Pole 

from a German School Atlas [1888] reprinted 1912

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themaninthegreenshirt:

The Best Places to Read a Book in Manhattan by Jason Polan

sosuperawesome:

Map lamps by WhimsyHome on Etsy

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uimapcoll:

northernbriton:

uimapcoll:

This colourful map, A Chart of the History of Printing in Europe, by R. T. Aitchison, was printed in 1931. Printer’s marks are included, as well as different types (and mermaids and sea monsters!).

You can see more about printing history in relation to geography here.

Is that 1742 next to Glasgow? The first printer here was in 1638…

You are correct. Nice spotting! The first book printed in Glasgow was The protestation of the Generall Assemblie of the Church of Scotland, and of the noblemen, barons, gentlemen, borrowes, ministers and commons, printed by George Anderson in 1638. Anderson worked in Glasgow until his death in 1647.

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patternbase:

Luis Toledo

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detrituss:

mapsontheweb

Gazing towards Europe, from the Horn of Africa, 1938

(Source: davidrumsey.com, via detrituss)

climateadaptation:

climateadaptation-deactivated20:

The shrinking of the Arctic ice sheet in the upcoming 10th edition of the National Geographic Atlas of the World is one of the most striking changes in the publication’s history, geographers say.

“The biggest visible change other than the breakup of the U.S.S.R.”

As the ocean heats up due to global warming, Arctic sea ice has been locked in a downward spiral. Since the late 1970s, the ice has retreated by 12 percent per decade, worsening after 2007, according to NASA. May 2014 represented the third lowest extent of sea ice during that month in the satellite record.

Melting ice and sea level rise has changed the world’s map.

(Source: National Geographic, via emergentfutures)