Benefits of Cartography: Why Map Reading Is A Useful Skill

Benefits of Cartography: Why Map Reading Is A Useful Skill

Nowadays, travelers are more likely to type their destination into Google Maps than pull out the paper alternative. But even in today’s wired-in world, there are still wild places. Places that wifi can’t reach, where satellite signals dissipate and phone chargers...
Here Be Dragons: The History and Evolution of Maps, Part 2

Here Be Dragons: The History and Evolution of Maps, Part 2

Most of our history lessons have come from textbooks, our teachers, and professors, and for some people, their education ended there. If, as I do, you have a real interest in the tales of days gone by, then you probably welcome any chance you get to learn something...
Here Be Dragons: The History and Evolution of Maps, Part 1

Here Be Dragons: The History and Evolution of Maps, Part 1

Unless you’re a cartographer or geographer, there probably is not a whole lot you know about maps. If you’re a millennial, with apps like Google Maps and Waze at your fingertips, you may have never even used a physical map. Maps may not occupy the same form they did...