The Map Center, Pawtucket Rhode Island

06/05/2026

Congratulations to the team at the Technical University of Munich on the hashtag hashtag hashtag - global coverage, raster and polygon data, building heights and 3d models.

And finally, I am chipping in with a quick look into the data in hashtag :

𝐌𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥: https://lnkd.in/dEWM3geh

𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞: https://lnkd.in/dA8_Tp3F

Fossbytes feature: https://lnkd.in/dg97zfmQ

Paper: https://lnkd.in/dYwagBc4

06/05/2026

Rob Simmon, a very talented data visualization professional, put this together last year. I helped a little with editing. It's always fun to see it circulate again!

Australian kids grow up staring at a world map where we live at the bottom. Flip the map upside down and suddenly Europe looks like it’s about to fall off the planet. A good reminder that maps don’t just show the world. They shape how we think about it. North isn’t “up”. It’s just a cartographic habit. Source: https://www.maps.com/this-map-is-not-upside-down/

06/02/2026

Happy pride everyone! Wanna see some gay maps?
A quick brief on Queering the Map with a little help from:
"Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino (1972)
"Infinite Cities" by Rebecca Solnit (2010)
'Monarcha and Queens' by Mona Caron and Rebecca Solnit

06/02/2026

Some folks have been having a hard time finding me in my new location. Maybe this will help?

05/28/2026

Check out my new sign! The logo was designed by last year and the printing was done by on this slick magnetic backing that I can lift and move around. It looks fantastic!

05/27/2026

Sneak peek of the kids section.
The new location will be imperfectly open for business this weekend so be sure to come by and check it out.
545 Pawtucket Ave, at the end of the hall to the left.

05/25/2026

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The big stuff like the flat files are going in tomorrow night, join me if you can! I'll have pizza!

05/21/2026

Closer

05/19/2026

Map Center: take II

05/18/2026

Love to see my friends and colleagues at Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education getting their due at CBS Sunday Morning

The Osher Map Library, at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, is home to half a million rare maps, globes and atlases, dating as far back as the 15th century. Correspondent Martha Teichner explores the world as depicted by cartographers, through maps that are whimsical, political, or inten...