New York City Hexmaps The five boroughs of New York City can be informally or formally carved up into many different pieces, depending on what it is that you’re doing. As part of an ongoing project, I recently made an R pa...

New York City Hexmaps. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

Park Circle became Park Oracle. Patterson Park became Pattereon Park. Alan Wright Park became something that cannot be pronounced by humans.

tried Photoshop's new upscaler for a map that's getting printed and... it renamed all our streets and parks

Trust In Maps YouTube video by Cartonerd

Trust in Maps - a keynote I gave at EuroCarto in 2024, and at the Royal Geographical Society in 2025. If you're interested in Trust, ethics, politics, and maps then here's an hour of my thoughts on that very topic.

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This week on The Map Room:

The Physics of GPS
www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/the-...

Apple Denies Removing Lebanese Towns and Villages from Apple Maps
www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/appl...

Alice Hudson and Women in Cartography
www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/alic...

Alice Hudson, former chief of the New York Public Library’s map division from 1981 to 2009, died in 2024. Last month The Cartographic Journal published a long look at Hudson’s life and career, written by… More

Claims circulating on social media that Apple erased towns and villages in southern Lebanon from Apple Maps as a kind of support for the Israeli invasion are not true, says Apple. Apple’s coverage of Lebanon… More

Shri Khalpada explains the physics of GPS. “GPS is fundamentally a translation tool: it converts time into distance. A satellite sends a signal, your phone catches it, and the delay between those two events tells… More

A mosaic from this week's posts: the cover for The Sky Atlas, and two maps depicting patterns in the names of streams in the United States.

This week on The Map Room:

Who Gets to Digitize Colonial-Era Congolese Geological Maps?
www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/who-...

The Vocabulary of Water
www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/the-...

The Sky Atlas
www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/the-...

On page 96 the author notes that “the actual mapping of the heavens did not exist” in medieval Europe; on page 98, that “celestial cartography awaited its invention.” That these words appear nearly 40 percent… More

What a stream is called says a lot about its hydrology. An arroyo is dry and intermittent; bayous, swamps and sloughs refer to wetlands. Anthony Martinez, a data scientist with the USGS, extracted the feature… More

Reuters: “A U.S. mining company backed by billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates is in a tangle with Belgium’s AfricaMuseum over who should digitise antique maps of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo… More

This week on The Map Room:

Now on Patreon: The Territory Is Not the Map
www.maproomblog.com/2026/03/now-...

Saul Steinberg’s Cartography
www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/saul...

It’s likely that artist Saul Steinberg may be best known for “View of the World from 9th Avenue,” an illustration that appeared as the well-known cover of the 29 March 1976 issue of The New… More

Taking a closer look at a 17th-century map...

The Kunyu Wagnuo Quantu (c.1644) was created by Chinese scholars and artisans after interactions with Western-style cartography. Earlier this week, our Collections team and expert conservators took it out of its custom-built case to examine it up close.

Today is The Map Room’s 23rd anniversary. As a thank-you to paid members of my Patreon, whose generous support has enabled me to remove ads from The Map Room, and as an enticement to those… More

Hand drawn map of the world from the perspective of New York.

Hand drawn flat Earth map.

Hand drawn map of future decisions.

Hand drawn road map—Per Aspera ad Astra.

I didn’t realize Saul Steinberg — the artist behind the famous “View of the World from 9th Avenue“ — had a whole series of similar illustrations. 😍

saulsteinbergfoundation.org/essay/view-o...

John Rocque, A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark, with the contiguous buildings, 1746. An engraved map of 18th-century London in 24 panels.

This week on The Map Room (2/2):

John Rocque’s 1746 Map of London
www.maproomblog.com/2026/03/john...

Ads Coming to Apple Maps This Summer (U.S. and Canada)
www.maproomblog.com/2026/03/ads-...

This week on The Map Room (1/2):

A Deep Dive on ‘The Map Is Not the Territory’
www.maproomblog.com/2026/03/a-de...

How Google Maps Disappears Restaurants from Search Results
www.maproomblog.com/2026/03/how-...

Moogle Gaps
www.maproomblog.com/2026/03/moog...

Per Apple’s announcement of its new Apple Business platform, ads are indeed coming to Apple Maps. Beginning this summer in the U.S. and Canada, businesses will have a new way to be discovered by using… More

A book reprinting John Rocque’s 1746 map of London, a massive 24-sheet, 1:2,437-scale map originally printed in 24 sheets, has just been published. Or rather, republished: it’s an updated reprint of a 1947 paperback by… More

Bird's-eye view of London seen in 280-year-old map John Rocque's map provided a view of the capital that was unprecedented in its detail.

Incredible detail with limited tools in this 1740's map of central London

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Moogle Gaps, for when you want to be misdirected. TrendWatching: “Whipped up by two Australian ex-Droga5 creatives, Paul Meates and Henry Kimber, Moogle Gaps is an anti-wayfinder. Users input their navigational query as they normally would, but instead… More

For the Guardian’s “It’s Complicated” feature, Josh Toussaint-Strauss looks at how great restaurants end up being invisible when you search for a place to eat on Google Maps. He talks with data scientist Lauren Leek,… More

In another side-quest from his current work in progress, Matthew Edney goes down a deep rabbit hole trying to work out a specific point related to Alfred Korzybski’s famous adage that “the map is not… More

This week on The Map Room (2/2):

Parking: Navigation Apps’ Next Frontier
www.maproomblog.com/2026/03/park...

Minnesota’s Unmappable City
www.maproomblog.com/2026/03/minn...

This week on The Map Room (1/2):

The Leventhal Center Is Hiring a Curator
www.maproomblog.com/2026/03/the-...

Maps in Movies
www.maproomblog.com/2026/03/maps...

‘The Map Itself Should Be Messier’
www.maproomblog.com/2026/03/the-...

The wealthy enclave of North Oaks, Minnesota got itself removed from Google Maps Street View 2008 and has stayed invisible to the service since then, thanks to the fact that the entire city of 5,272… More

Mapping Google's Unmappable City How filmmaker Chris Parr put North Oaks, Minnesota on the map.

I'm always talking about 'who is the mapper, who is the mapped' but here is a case where the people being mapped have a ton of power. Who gets to stay off the map?
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A team of MIT researchers think that navigation systems have a parking problem. They’re capable of telling us about traffic congestion and offering us alternate routes, but once we’ve arrived at our destination, we’re on… More

In an interview in the Spring 2026 issue of The World Today, William Rankin, author of Radical Cartography, looks at cartography in the present geopolitical situation and argues that maps need to be up to… More