The UK Onshore Geophysical Library's William Smith - Interactive has wound me up.  It represents a cartofail that's extremely commo...

Campaign group 38 degrees have produced a map of the NHS crisis in the UK that purports to show the location of signatories to a petition d...

Via Keir Clarke's Maps Mania I saw the latest voronoi designed map this morning. Made by Guus Hoekman , the map uses voronoi polygons t...

A few years back, designer Kai Krause made his multi-viral 'True Size of Africa' graphic. It's what got me riled enough to start...

I had told myself I wasn't going to bite when @Amazing_maps screamed once more for my attention. But the more I tried to ignore, the mor...

My last blog post on heat maps was an attempt to persuade map-makers that the term actually means something other than what you might think...

I saw an ad on television last night that may help the understanding of how cartographers think about good map design and construction vs wh...

Thinking of putting emoji on a map? Please don't Whatever you call them: pictograms, pictorial markers and mimetic markers have always...

Inspired by the nonsense mapping of The Proclaimers 500 miles  that I re-mapped, I was pondering a few other geographical lyrics and how the...

When The Proclaimers released Sunshine on Leith in 1988 I was just about heading off to University (to study cartography and geography - th...

This blog entry is about mapping, honestly...but to get to my point I'll start with Dave Grohl and then get to Robert Downey Jr and Stev...

Hyperbolic - of or relating to hyperbola, an adjective describing something that is overstated or exaggerated. And so to today's hyperbo...

I was sent a link to the following map by Rob Story . I can't bring myself to thank him...it made my eyes bleed and I genuinely do not k...

No one wants to see bad maps...or maybe they do, because they keep those that can make good maps in business and they give educators some gr...

I increasingly hear quite a lot of the latest buzz about this map and that map but where is this noise coming from? We're seeing the m...