Rhodes Cartography

Excited to have one of my maps featured in the new Rumsey Map Center exhibition "Spheres of Influence" at Stanford. Please visit if you are in NorCal, but you can also see the digital exhibit here: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/83a4...

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www.mapspam.net/rangefan/ Free and simple range fan map creator

New version of Great Circles (and range rings) tool is now live. Make your free base and reference maps here: www.mapspam.net/greatcircles...

Just the one additional sheet to highlight on SABRE Maps this #MapMonday - the 1935 Ordnance Survey Half Inch #Map of Greater London. Taking in a lot more than the modern definition of Greater London, it includes lots of places that look very, very different today... buff.ly/YvH8yy9

Dutch cartocubism A forgotten attempt to simplify maps from the interwar period. attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/dutch-cart...

I didn’t realize Saul Steinberg — the artist behind the famous “View of the World from 9th Avenue“ — had a whole series of similar illustrations. 😍 saulsteinbergfoundation.org/essay/view-o...

Gracias!

New tool if you want to make simple basemaps with Great Circle Routes. www.mapspam.net/GreatCircleM...

Still not perfect, esp. on mobile, here's a v1.0 new Great Circle Map generator. Enter two locations. Select MetBrewer color palettes or the REH homage. Shit+click to pan. Rotate the globe or the view. Export the visible window or the whole globe. www.mapspam.net/GreatCircle2...

18x24 wall map.

I assume everyone else watching the Olympics has the urge to experiment with Copernicus DEM data to make terrain maps of the Alps in QGIS ...

Highways have fundamentally altered the landscape of the United States 🚗

I added a cool globe to my collection and learned what I could about it. www.mapspam.net/classic-1925...

A holiday look for the North Pole.

So cool.

Kids were making snowflakes and shadow puppets. First time making a map with scissors.

❗Join us for our last collection showing of 2025 ... guest curated by you❗ This free showing will be hosted Friday, December 19 in the Learning Center with a staff member from the Leventhal Center available to answer questions. Drop in any time between 2:00 pm–4:00 pm. No reservation is required.

Global connectivity. Aviation route pairs on Great Circle paths (not observed flight routes).

Geography questions from the 1858 Oxford Local Examinations. How would you do? I have been looking everywhere but have not yet found surviving examples of any "accompanying map" actually used in an exam. There was a whole industry around publishing exam prep maps.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 22 Data: Natural Earth | The Great Islands Earlier this summer I finished this print version of my map from last year depicting our Great Lakes as islands. Been trying to learn more about lighting techniques in Blender—I think this was a big leap forward from 2024 version!

This physical map of North America by the masterful @mtnmapper puts the location of Greenland and Iceland into perspective. You can grab the map here: buff.ly/M3Y4zrV

Day 22 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Natural Earth Data. I used the Ocean Bottom layer to make a Bathymetry map of Northern Europe.

After some helpful comments from testers, I have updated this tool for making simple outline maps on an equidistant projection. Zoom and rotate functions work better now and without a mouse. Make base maps for briefing graphics or coloring books. mapspam.net/OutlineMap.html

That chart is well worth studying. Share of daily transactions taking place in cash around the world. As an Australian, I’m very much used to cashless everything by now. I’m still totally against going fully cashless.

On Monday afternoon (GMT) I will be giving a lecture at the Royal Geographic Society on Alexander Macomb Mason. Naval history, exploration in Africa, 19th-century century science, and lots of #maps... Register for in-person or online here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

We've recently created a new collection of legacy maps in our Catalogue, which will be added to over time. For now, we have 3 interesting maps available to view and download: data.bas.ac.uk/collections/... The Scotia Arc is one of our favourites. The map was a massive compilation effort at the time!

Celebrate Geography Awareness Week at Brown! From Nov 17-21, IBES & partners will host a career panel, photo contest, workshops, colloquia, and tours highlighting how GIS skills can be used in + beyond the classroom. Full schedule: https://ibes.brown.edu/news-events/2025-geography-awareness-week

Who was "SHB" that made these maps for Churchill's books?

So glad to receive my copy of Great Power Diplomacy. It was a worthy challenge to make maps for a range of case studies. I am especially grateful that Wess thought to include a "Note on the Maps": a rare chance to reflect on the interplay of maps and strategy.

One of my inspirations… theconversation.com/the-maps-of-...

My new map of the Baltic Sea got a strong response last week. Many seemed to appreciate the fresh perspective on maritime geopolitics, and a few asked for a high-resolution download, so I've posted it here: thinkinginspace.net/f/baltic-sea...

Counterintuitive Comparison Of Relative Population Latitudes Of US, Canada & Europe Full map: brilliantmaps.com/populatio...

Great work. Glad you found the tool useful.

Been consumed with other things lately and not making enough maps. But had a fresh look at the Baltic and came up with this take with an old style. Labeling needs work, but feels more dynamic than the traditional view.

I added a few new things to the maps section of my portfolio. #cartography #dataviz

No Hurricane or Typhoon Has Ever Crossed The Equator brilliantmaps.com/no-hurric...

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...