The majority of the earth's surface is ocean, and it's a rare soul who wants to stay on it when landfall breaks are possible. But map nerds have studied the question of how far you can go in a ship without steering or ru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/03/What-is-the-Longest-Route-You-Can-Sail-in-a-Straight-Line-Without-Hitting-Land/If you were to do a Google search for Null Island, you’d find it has a website, a Wikipedia entry, a Twitter account, and plenty of maps. That’s pretty impressive -for a place that doesn’t exist. Null I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/05/10/The-Geographical-Oddity-of-Null-Island/Yes, we do have world maps from the time Jesus was born. That’s mainly thanks to a geographer named Strabo, who was born at the edge of the Roman Empire, in what is now Turkey, about 64 BC. He was educated far beyo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/17/How-The-World-Looked-When-Jesus-Was-Born-According-to-Roman-Geographers/As the Soviet Union was falling apart in 1989, Russell Guy bought a group of crates from some military officers that turned out to be a treasure. They were intricately-detailed maps of the world, created by Soviet cartog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/18/Inside-the-Secret-World-of-Russias-Cold-War-Mapmakers/[https://youtu.be/L4qjUNdVpLE] (YouTube link)John Green says he’s a huge map nerd. He’s not alone; many highly intelligent people are fascinated by maps. In this episode of the mental_floss List Show, we lear...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/15/27-Facts-About-Maps/Geography professor and artist Stentor Danielson created a series of beautiful fantasy maps that render real cities in the style of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth maps. They are for sale through Danielson’s Etsy stor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/07/Fantasy-Maps-of-Real-Cities/Last week, Google Maps took an entire town away. Wiped it off the map. Does Google have the power to do that? No, it was just correcting a mistake that has been copied and perpetuated for 90 years. The community of Agloe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/01/Agloe-New-York-The-Town-That-Never-Was/Almost every map you see is oriented with north at... ...like that. Nick Danforth looks at the history of cartography to find out why north was chosen as “up&rdq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/02/18/How-North-Became-the-Top-of-the-Map/Early cartographers often included illustrations or descriptions of sea monsters on their maps, in order to warn explorers of their location. Sometimes the drawings were symbolic, such as a picture of a king riding a fis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/29/Medieval-and-Renaissance-Sea-Monsters/Ladies, this is a map of our hearts. Like any old map, it's safe to assume the cartographer was operating with limited tools and resources and under the influence of societal expectations. So don't be offended that Love...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/07/A-Womans-Heart-According-to-the-1800s/
