River Transit Maps

Cartographer Daniel Huffman at Something About Maps has produced a series of maps of U.S. rivers in the style of Harry Beck's famous 1930s diagram of the London Underground.  Via Strange Maps.

River Transit Maps - somethingaboutmaps

The Columbia River System


http://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/river-maps/



Disappearing Glaciers Help Solve Mysteries

Melting glaciers in the Andes are slowly revealing their secrets.

Melting in Andes Reveals Remains and Wreckage - NYTimes

Huayna Potosi in Bolivia.

Princiar / Wikimedia Commons

Typographic Maps

Man, it's hard to keep up a blog now that I have a real job.

A friend of mine recently sent me a link to Axis Maps' collection of typographic maps of major U.S. cities.  I really dig these kinds of maps, and the link reminded me of the first map of this type I'd seen.  It was on an invitation to a University of Wisconsin party at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Boston in 2008.  I thought it was extremely cool at the time, and still do.

http://www.cartogrammar.com/