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Jan 20, 2021
Garrett Dash Nelson

Bending Lines in Cartographic Perspectives

Our new exhibition is featured in the Cartographic Collections section of the NACIS journal

Jan 20, 2021
Rachel Mead

Highlights from Jamaica Plain By Map

Revisit some of the places we visited in our Atlascope tour of Jamaica Plain

Jan 13, 2021
Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson

Confronting the content of collections

A Twitter bot trawling through our digital collections brings up questions

Jan 4, 2021
LMEC Staff

Roaring Twenties Countdown

These maps from our collections, one for each 20s decade starting in 1520, helped us count down to New Years 2021

Dec 30, 2020
Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson

Stretching the world at the end of a war

A Newsmap from December 1945 shows how cartographic projection promoted the U.S. view of itself as a global power

Dec 23, 2020
Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson

Six news stories from 2020, seen through Atlascope

Over the past year, sometimes the news invited us into the past

Dec 21, 2020
Garrett Dash Nelson and Belle Lipton

Introducing our Public Data project

The Leventhal Map & Education Center is breaking new ground in bringing geospatial data empowerment to the public, supported by a grant from the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub

Nov 24, 2020
Lauren Chen

What a relief

How to make a relief map in the era before 3D printing

Nov 23, 2020
Garrett Dash Nelson

A sylvan boundary

Why the line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire pivots around a pine tree

Nov 19, 2020
Garrett Dash Nelson

Parts unknown—or willful ignorance

What's hidden in the emptiness of a map

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