A Cartographer's Tale is a personal newsletter exploring maps, their history and their connection to current events, with monthly roundups and essays on specific cartographic puzzles. Readers get well-researched stories about how maps shape understanding of borders, disasters and society.
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Re:connaissance publishes essays and reports on data, design and visual representation, covering topics such as AI incident databases, the visual design of euro banknotes and nuclear waste warning signs. Readers get researched, personal analysis of how states and institutions shape visual culture.
Essays on data graphics and data storytelling, covering map design, the physical craft of cartography, and the history behind notable maps. Each issue builds a personal argument from specific examples such as scroll maps, museum entrances and the role of friction in design.
An orienteering mapper writes about the craft of making orienteering maps, including commissioning, LiDAR-based base mapping, cartographic detail and symbol sizing. Issues repeat articles from CompassSport magazine and announce new projects.
A student-run journal publishing undergraduate history research papers and interviews with scholars and local historians. Recent issues cover Black spatial thought in literature, a 1748 New Haven map, and U.S. temperance cartography.
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