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Mad about maps
A book review of The Island of Lost Maps
Author: Andrew Steed
Date: 1 June 2001
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...
Getmapping's Groundbreaking Project
Date: 1 December 2001
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...
Author: Gizella Bassa
Date: 1 January 2003
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...
Date: 1 March 2002
Harvey Maps 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...
Author: Jacob Genelle
Date: 1 August 2001
IGN is France's national survey agency, the equivalent of Great Britain's Ordnance Survey. As the Ordnance Survey was, and as many national Géographical institutes still are, it was originally a department...
Date: 9 April 2008
We get a thrill whenever we come across descriptions of the wonders of maps in the world of literature. It all started for us with the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" has Sherlock Holmes describing the transporting power of a map, and even referring to Stanfords by name as his chosen source of cartographic inspiration.
Michelin: the maps they are a-changing
Author: Margaret Ross
Date: 1 May 2003
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...
The British Cartographic Society
Author: Mick Ashworth
Date: 1 July 2003
Mick Ashworth, as mad as us about maps and the president of the British Cartographic Society, introduces us to the Society and its activity. Nearly forty years ago, on the 28th September 1963, a small...
The European Discovery of the Pacific
Author: Dr Peter Whitfield
Date: 1 September 2001
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...
Author: Jack Joyce
Date: 1 September 2001
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...
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