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Unsurprisingly we're rather big fans of maps here at Stanfords, with a history of making the best, importing the best and selling the best, that spans back for over 150 years. Here you'll find a collection of articles on and around maps and mapping - digging up amazing facts, moments of sheer genius by past cartographers as well as discovering the histories behind some of the biggest companies to survey the world.

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The Island of Lost Maps
- Author: Andrew Steed
The basis of the this handsome looking book is the true story of Gilbert Bland. In 1995 Bland was caught stealing four 200-year-old maps from the Peabody Library of John Hopkins University in Baltimore. Further investigation revealed that 19 libraries across North America had been systematically vandalised...
Insight into the world of IGN
- Author: Jacob Genelle
IGN is France's national survey agency, the equivalent of Great Britain's Ordnance Survey. As the Ordnance Survey was, and as many national geographical institutes still are, it was originally a department of the army. It became a public institution just before the Armistice of Vichy in 1941.
The European Discovery of the Pacific
- Author: Peter Whitfield
It is a fascinating fact of cartographic history that the first world map to name the new continent of America was also the first to illustrate the existence of the Pacific Ocean. What's more, there is a mystery surrounding the origins of this remarkable map produced by Martin Waldseemuller in 1507...
The history of ITMB
- Author: Jack Joyce
ITMB Publishing Ltd (International Travel Maps and Books, if you're not in a hurry) was conceived in the early 1980s from the partnership of an Australian cartographer named Kevin Healey and Jack Joyce, a Canadian map retailer, who were both frustrated at the unimpressive range of maps of Central and South America on the market.
The mapping of the Indian continent
- Author: Donna Wright
The mapping of India is a tale that touches all strands of culture, history, science and politics ensuring that one cannot help but be fascinated. The feats and determination of the surveyors astounded me when I first undertook the study of cartography and their effort is entwined with our need for understanding...
Harvey Maps
Harvey Map Services have been established for 25 years. They have gained a reputation for creating high quality maps for adventurous recreation. Popular walking and climbing areas throughout the UK are covered in ranges of sheet and route maps at varying scales according to the terrain of the area covered.
Michelin: the maps they are a-changing
- Author: Margaret Ross
New maps are always awaited with great anticipation at Stanfords; many become a valuable addition to our stock, and those which fill the few remaining gaps in our coverage are particularly welcomed. Some, it has to be admitted, turn out to be disappointing, and, occasionally, one or two make us wonder why they were published at all and are consigned straight to the wastepaper bin in the buyers' office.
The British Cartographic Society
- Author: Mick Ashworth
Mick Ashworth, as mad as us about maps and the president of the [LINK:680|CAPTION:British Cartographic Society], introduces us to the society and its activity.
The story of Gizi Maps
- Author: Gizella Bassa
Since 1992 GiziMap seem to have been able to predict exactly what maps the current political affairs required. Read about GiziMap and the maps they produce in the words of the founder herself, Gizella Bassa.
Getmapping's groundbreaking project
Not since William the Conqueror recorded England in the Domesday Book has there ever been such a record of the country. A record that is so detailed as to show every road, every house, and every tree - the first ever complete and continuous colour aerial photographic record.