{"id":1108,"date":"2016-03-03T13:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T18:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2016-09-13T09:16:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T13:16:49","slug":"national-geographic-atlas-reviewed-in-cartographic-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/national-geographic-atlas-reviewed-in-cartographic-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic Atlas Reviewed in Cartographic Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ng-atlas-10th\"<\/a>When I reviewed the Ninth Edition of the\u00a0National Geographic Atlas of the World<\/em><\/a> in 2010, I\u00a0compared it virtually plate-by-plate with the Eighth Edition. With the Atlas’s Tenth Edition<\/a>, which came out in the fall of 2014, Christine Newton Bush does something similar in her review for\u00a0Cartographic Perspectives<\/em><\/a>: emphasize what’s new and changed. When you have a reference product that updates every few years, people may well wonder each time a new edition comes out whether now is the\u00a0time to replace their older copy, so this approach makes a lot of sense. And not just because I’ve done it myself. Buy at Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I reviewed the Ninth Edition of the\u00a0National Geographic Atlas of the World in 2010, I\u00a0compared it virtually plate-by-plate with the Eighth Edition. With the Atlas’s Tenth Edition, which came out in the fall of… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[639],"tags":[148,30,640],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-world-atlases","tag-atlas","tag-books","tag-national-geographic","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786828,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/12\/the-times-comprehensive-atlas-of-the-world-15th-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":1108,"position":0},"title":"The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, 15th Edition","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 December 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"How exactly do you review an atlas? 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