MAP: Exploring the World

I wrote the introduction and I am the consulting editor for a new book from Phaidon that juxtaposes maps, both traditional and digital, from many cultures and time periods......the book is available through bookstores and of course on Amazon. Click to hear an interview about the book with ABC Radio and NPR's All Things Considered.

We are currently in a golden age of cartography where more and more the line between data visualization and mapping is becoming blurred with our ability to display and analyse large amounts of spatial data, mostly from sources not traditionally available to cartographers, like cell phones and social media. This new book features maps from the beginning of cartographic thought all the way to what I have turned in the introduction "cartography's final frontier," that is the mapping of the human brain.

.....see reviews of the book and interviews about its cartographic methodology and philosophy at the Atlantic Monthly's CITYLAB, Wired Magazine, the BBC, Forbes Magazine and Travel + Leisure Magazine.

In the Footsteps of Forbes: Following his travels through the Alps of the Dauphine

Currently on leave in the Alps following the path outlined in the Jouranals of the early glaciologist James Forbes who explored the region of the Dauphine Alps around Mount Pelvoux and La Meije in the early 19th century. His notes and reflections make an interesting comparative study of the current condition of the glaciers in the region as well as those in the more heavily studied area around the Mer de Glace.

....a full post and paper on this is forthcoming in the coming weeks....