The Map Room Gallery

03/11/2018

Pierre Charles L'Enfant, George Washington and the creation of Washington D.C.:

Learn about the history of the National Mall in Washington DC, the L'Enfant Plan, the McMillan Plan and more. See relevant facts and dates.

09/14/2017

Everyone has a favorite spot in the Keys, zoom in to see how each area was affected by Hurricane Irma :

08/07/2017

Music Maps that show the popularity of certain singers in different parts of America:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/upshot/music-fandom-maps.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_up_20170807&nl=upshot&nl_art=0&nlid=49819863&ref=headline&te=1&_r=0

Detailed maps reveal the contours of American music fandom.

05/12/2017

Interesting article :
"Octopus - a Motif of Evil in Historical Propaganda Maps" : https://hyperallergic.com/375900/the-map-octopus-a-propaganda-motif-of-spreading-evil/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Octopus%20a%20Motif%20of%20Evil%20in%20Historical%20Propaganda%20Maps&utm_content=The%20Octopus%20a%20Motif%20of%20Evil%20in%20Historical%20Propaganda%20Maps+CID_06fb8f254343e73b6595ad68aef4b0a0&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter&utm_term=The%20Octopus%20a%20Motif%20of%20Evil%20in%20Historical%20Propaganda%20Maps

Since the 19th century, the motif of an octopus on propaganda maps has represented the inhuman spread of evil, its tentacles grasping for land and power.

12/22/2016

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/21/upshot/Mapping-the-Shadows-of-New-York-City.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_up_20161221&nl=upshot&nl_art=0&nlid=49819863&ref=headline&te=1&_r=1

The struggle for light and air through thousands of New York’s buildings.

09/01/2016

Immapancy: How the Mercator projection distorts the relative sizes of countries: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartography?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/truetruesizeofafrica?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/cartographythetruetruesizeofafrica

Africa is bigger than it looks on most maps of the world

05/31/2016

Amazing discovery in France: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-25/french-maps-from-1781-that-helped-free-america-to-be-auctioned

Want a piece of American history?

03/05/2016

Last day of the Washington Antiquarian Book Fair:
http://www.wabf.com/home

Exhibitors from around the country will once again convene at the 41st Annual Washington Antiquarian Book Fair, offering both serious collectors and budding enthusiasts rare books, manuscripts, modern first editions, autographs, prints, maps, drawings and other fine ephemera.

01/10/2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35267571

By measuring the age of 70,000 stars across the Milky Way, astronomers make a "growth chart" for our galaxy.

12/05/2015

A new and (as yet) unofficial map of the Paris Metro reveals exactly how long it would take to walk between every station in the city.

08/05/2015

Map of New York -http://m.fastcompany.com/3049393/heres-a-map-of-the-world-from-a-new-yorkers-point-of-view?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=codesign-daily&position=3&partner=newsletter&campaign_date=08052015

And it's completely to scale.

05/14/2015

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo19910111.html

The book Cartophilia: Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland, Catherine Tatiana Dunlop is published by University of Chicago Press.