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Sierra Nevada Earth Science Atlas
A collaboration between the California Geological Survey and the USGS, the Sierra Nevada Earth Science Atlas “provides the most detailed geologic framework mapping of California’s most iconic landscape to date. This web page hosts the… More

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Designing Maps for an Apple Watch App
In a blog post, David Smith discusses the challenges of getting good maps on the Apple Watch version of Pedometer++, version 8 of which shipped last month. “App design on watchOS is a really fun—but… More

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Boston in 50 Maps
Out this week from Belt Publishing: Boston in 50 Maps by Andy Woodruff. From the publisher: Covering four distinct categories (“The Making of Boston,” “The Lay of the Land,” “Getting Around,” and “People and Culture”… More

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Maps and Art: Ed Fairburn, Maps as Decor
Geoawesome’s Aleks Buczkowski looks at the art of Ed Fairburn, who combines portraiture with maps—basically, maps with a human face. “Fairburn’s work sits at the intersection of cartography and portraiture. It reminds us that maps… More

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Review: This Way Up
It’s been ten years since Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman teamed up to form Voltron launch an occasional and irregular series of videos about maps. They called themselves the Avengers Map Men, and in each… More

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