Rhodes Cartography

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El reverdecimiento del bosque boreal (2000 - 2019)
Puedes leer más sobre el mapa aquí: https://mapasmilhaud.com/uncategorized/el-reverdecimiento-del-bosque-boreal-2000-2019/
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Rafael Palacios made his name as mapmaker in the late 1940s with WWII maps for Eisenhower. In the early 1990s, just before he died, he made the maps for Stephen Ambrose's "Band of Brothers."

Look at how many different line weights there are in this corner of a Rafael Palacios map from David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas. All freehand.

Population Along The Danube River

More about the river: brilliantmaps.com/danube-ri...

Field of Rye

Field of Rye https://www.wikiart.org/en/camille-pissarro/field-of-rye-1888

Cartographic projections: deforming the Earth to represent it The history of a compromise that was created to resolve an unsolvable geometry problem. The virtues and shortcomings of some of the most iconic map projections.

A really simple explanation of cartographic projections from @mapasmilhaud.com

Even I understood it! www.cartographerstale.com/p/cartograph...

Build it

Build it!

Everyone should learn the joy of changing trains at Park Street. This is what peak transit system design looks like.

Seattle to San Francisco? Just go Inbound to Park St and change trains to go Outbound to San Francisco! Nothing could be simpler!

Los mapas del mes: Junio 2025 Los mapas y artículos más interesantes con los que me he topado en mayo de 2025.

Los mapas del mes: Junio 2025

Los mapas y artículos más interesantes con los que me he topado en junio de 2025.

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A new mystery with some beautiful endpaper maps. Clean style and dynamic lettering, but signed by an artist I have never heard of. Jennyanne Wong.

Stopped by a library and found some more Rafael Palacios maps. They are everywhere if you know where to look.

And a few more

For your Saturday morning enjoyment, a selection of Rafael Palacios map labels and calligraphic letters.

Wait, this is real? A cave deeper than 2000m? And people are crazy enough to go all the way down? Good lord! It’s a hard no from me. Happy to support mountaineers all the way to the top but caving is a big no from your friendly armchair cartography enthusiast: buff.ly/zZAA7Zd

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Mapa de la República del Ecuador (1858)
Puedes leer más sobre el mapa aquí: https://mapasmilhaud.com/mapas-antiguos/mapa-de-la-republica-del-ecuador-1858/
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I love this upside down Equal Earth map centered around Australia. Great piece by @mtnmapper: buff.ly/AU3DIqQ

Loads of fun for history and map nerds alike! This fantastic online tool allows you to see how borders changed over time. Endless fun zooming in and out and see history play itself out. Worth looking at when you read history too! Source: buff.ly/ZiMoASK

Impressive set of intuitive, useful, and approachable tools.

Rafael Palacios map in the back endpapers of Eisenhower's 1965 book Waging Peace.

It’s #MapMonsterMonday! Jodocus Hondius’s c1640 map of the Americas features a couple of beasts prowling the Pacific. Also interesting is the inset connecting Australia and Antarctica as one. This map is held by the Library of Congress.

Classic US-China comparison graphic, remade in several different places. This one from 1922 edition of The New World by Isaiah Bowman.

Getting back into a blank/outline map mood. Working on a style that emulates "blue book" geography workbooks that are designed for students to mark up and label.

Bought this October 1950 Life Magazine for the Korea map attributed to Rafael Palacios. But also an amazing time capsule as 30 Chinese divisions are mapped but dismissed.

1950 Life Magazine whiskey advertisement map of Pennsylvania.

It’s #MapMonsterMonday! Gerard Mercator’s 1695 map of Arabia was based on the much earlier work of Ptolemy and features this beauty of a sea dragon, lurking offshore. This map is held by a private collector.

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El desastre de la Armada Invencible (1588)
Puedes leer más sobre el mapa aquí: https://mapasmilhaud.com/mapas-historicos/el-desastre-de-la-armada-invencible-1588/
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Wonderful to receive this utterly beautiful 3D printed diorama of "Snow's map of cholera" by @alexselbyb.bsky.social. Exceptional attention to detail. Simply stunning. Dare I say better than the original! Thanks Alex.

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Lillian J. Wonders Lillian Paradise Johnson Wonders (1925-2023), was born on April 20, 1925 in Portland, Oregon, the eldest of three daughters to Juliette Martin Omohundro (1896-1991) and Franklin Paradise Johnson (1888-1943). Lillian Wonders attended St. Helen's Hall in Portland, Oregon, and upon graduation pursued post-secondary education at Oregon State College (Corvallis, Oregon) and the University of Washington (Seattle, Washington), obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Geography in 1946. Wonders then attended Syracuse University to study medical geography where she wrote her thesis on "Geographical Aspects of Schistosoma mansoni in Puerto Rico. Wonders career included teaching geography and cartography at the University of Washington (1948); cartographer with the Map Division of the United Nations Secretariat (1949-1951); lecturer in cartography in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto; and as a freelance cartographer. Her publications, and contributions, include: Looking at Maps (1960), Land, Water, and People (1961), Dent's Historical and Geographical Atlas (1958), Atlas of Alberta (1969), Junior Atlas of Alberta (1979), the Canadian Encyclopedia (1985), Geographica, the Complete Illustrated Atlas of Canada and the World (1998). Wonders first learned letterpress printing at age twelve from her father, when he purchased a Chandler and Price Press and founded the Johnson & Co. press in Portland in 1934. Wonders continued printing on the family's small platen press and 1890 Chandler and Price Press throughout her career as a cartographer, and founded Wonder Press in 1965 while living in Edmonton. Lillian Wonders married her husband William C. Wonders (a Canadian geographer with a map collection named after him), on June 2, 1951. Abridged from : University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives.

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Lillian J. Wonders Map by Lillian J. Wonders and Kim Davis Title: Alberta Writers' Guild [literary map] Published in 1983 Citation: Wonders, Lillian, Davis, Kim. (1983). Alberta Writers' Guild [literary map]. Alberta Writers' Guild.

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Lillian J. Wonders Picture of two maps that appeared in the following books: Luxton, E. G. (1975). Banff: Canada’s first national park. A history and a memory of Rocky Mountains Park. Summerthought. Lister, R. (1979). The birds and birders of Beaverhills Lake. Edmonton Bird Club.

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Lillian J. Wonders Cover and three plates - Communities - Looking at Canada - Albertans From: Alberta Education. (1979). Junior atlas of Alberta : our place on earth and how we live. Curriculum Branch, Alberta Education. Item has not been digitized.

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display)
Lillian J. Wonders Cartographer, geographer, teacher and founder of "Wonder Press". For more info/links: #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/34hn54c3
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