cartography

An MIT Press article uses the 1580 'Mapa de Teozacoalco', created by an unnamed Ñudzahui painter for the Spanish Crown, to argue that data visualization is never neutral — it is always an exercise of power by those who decide how knowledge is presented.

Tabletop Whale blogger Eleanor Lutz shares a code tutorial for her geologic map of the Moon, the final installment in her Atlas of Space series, detailing the challenges of merging six planetary datasets into a cohesive visualization.

Introduces a new equal-area map projection that seamlessly transitions to Mercator upon zoom, featuring a simple mathematical formula and improved appearance compared to Equal Earth for global scale maps.

Despite a UN resolution advocating for more accurate map projections like Equal Earth, popular navigation apps such as Google Maps are unlikely to replace the Mercator map due to its practical navigation benefits, though it distorts continent sizes.

The UN has endorsed a resolution to promote map projections that accurately reflect the true size of continents, moving away from the distorted Mercator projection.

This paper evaluates graph neural networks for classifying changes in electronic navigational charts as critical or non-critical to navigational safety, demonstrating improved accuracy with graph-based representations.

An interactive web tool mapping every named war in human history, from 3000 BCE to the present.

War Atlas is an interactive cartography of every named war in human history, praised by the author for its UI and as an example of AI enabling niche passion projects.