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By on 15 December, 2020

The Most Festive Treasures of the New York Public Library’s Maps Division

Atlas Obscura

A very mappy Christmas from Atlas Obscura.

Vintage Maps in 3D

Maps Mania

Novel demonstrations of the 3D terrain feature of the Mapbox GL JS mapping library, version 2.

“If our maps help shape the coverage, I’m thrilled”

GeoHipster

GeoHipster interview with Steven Romalewski, director of the Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center of the City University of NY (CUNY).

The US Hospital Capacity Map

Maps Mania

The Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota has released a new interactive map which shows for the first time how hospitals in the United States are coping with epidemic levels of coronavirus.

John Nelson’s Cassini Globe Ornament

The Map Room

Another year, another DIY papercraft globe ornament from John Nelson. “This ornament is a blending of NASA Visible Earth imagery and Esri/USGS Ecological Land Units. It uses the Cassini projection as six half-gores for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, arranged in ArcGIS Pro.”

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