The year in maps: Cartography Boom

Drake Bennett does geography a good turn by describing quite a variety of interesting maps that have been in the news during the past year.

The maps are quite intriguing, describing many things -- moonwalks, whale accidents, and voting -- at a variety of scales.

I cringed only a little at the mention of Harvard (that nemesis of geographers everywhere).

Update

Looking at this post -- the first post on my first blog -- I notice that it links to a map involving a whale. This is several years before whales, whaling, and whaleboats would take up so much of my attention and would be featured in many of the thousand-plus posts that would follow.

I revisited the post because I now use Facebook as a sort of microblogging site, and have recently created a Facebook page tied to the blog.