Important Summary Statement re "AI" in Mapping
Jonathan Crowe’s statement is much better than anything I could write — go read it!
Mapping as Process
Latest posts
A Mappy Time in Czechia’s National Museum
The large table-map of Europe, Müller’s large map of Bohemia (pictured), etc. in the National Museum, Prague
New TV Spot re Osher Map Library
I was heavily featured in the brief spot about OML on CBS Sunday Morning, 17 May 2026
Essay on Maps and Color Now Online!
The exhibition A Pageant of Spectacles: Chromolithography in America is now online! It contains my long-ish essay on maps, printing, and color.
Maps, Territory, and Self-Reflexivity: Confusions of/by/about Korzybski
You know the dictum “the map is not the territory” … but it’s not quite so simple!
A Surrealist Map Film!
Watch a surrealist film about the relationship of map to territory!
Two RBS Map Courses in Summer 2026 !!
Applications due (for first-round consideration) 17 February 2026
A Linguistic Quandary
Are maps art-I-facts or art-E-facts?
Media appearance on NPR, no less
A 6m30s story on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday, 7 December 2025, in the Osher Map Library, its wonderful staff, and its great work and vision!
2025 Books in Map History, plus some missed from 2023/4
Time for the annual list of the books I know (I think I know) were published in 2025 about map history! (Blog roll image is courtesy of Tom Gould!)
The Most Important—and Amazing—Map Exhibition, Ever!
Marking the Turn to the Anthropogenic Map Concept
Media mentions ...
Especially a video essay using a bit of my work to good effect!
The Modifiability of US Commercial Lithographic Maps
An ornate 1860 map of the United States and Mexico repurposes an older 1849 map to new political ends1
Spicing up the World Map!
Revealing comparison of two promotional maps made in 1931 and 1957 by the same company!
Public Radio interview re History of Cartography
Fairly wide ranging chat on Wisconsin Public Radio about how mapping has changed with digital technologies and on the History of Cartography series!
"Comparative Map History" is published!
Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography” is now officially published by Brill
Mapping the Social World of the Counterculture
The Great Humbead’s “Revised Map of the World” (1968)
New book imminent ...
Edney, Matthew H. 2025. Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations. Leiden: Brill.
An Update on the Facsimile(s) of the Borgia Map
Again, why one must always — always! — look at the original if one can!
My 2024 Journal of Historical Geography Lecture is now available in preprint
“Historical Geography and the Cartographic Illusion of Exceptionalism” – With a link for free download, available until 9 July 2025 !!