{"id":1788073,"date":"2019-11-19T20:59:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T01:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788073"},"modified":"2019-11-19T20:59:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T01:59:25","slug":"bert-johnson-1946-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/bert-johnson-1946-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Bert Johnson, 1946-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hubert O. (Bert) Johnson, longtime stalwart of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washmapsociety.org\">Washington Map Society<\/a> and indefatigable administrator of its Facebook group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/100509989851\/permalink\/10159882878239852\/\">died earlier this month<\/a> of a heart attack. He was 73.<\/p>\n<p>Bert and I only knew each other online, and that mostly via what we posted. In fact, we made a regular habit of stealing each other\u2019s links. He\u2019d share many of <strong>The Map Room<\/strong>\u2019s posts on the WMS Facebook group, and many of my posts had their origins in something Bert posted on the WMS Facebook group.<\/p>\n<p>An obituary and funeral details are still to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hubert O. (Bert) Johnson, longtime stalwart of the Washington Map Society and indefatigable administrator of its Facebook group, died earlier this month of a heart attack. He was 73. Bert and I only knew each&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/bert-johnson-1946-2019\/\">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":[581],"tags":[474],"class_list":["post-1788073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-map-societies","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1807562,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/06\/bert-johnsons-map-ties\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788073,"position":0},"title":"Bert Johnson&#8217;s Map Ties","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 June 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"The late Bert Johnson\u2019s collection of map ties\u2014some 50 of them\u2014has been donated to the Osher Map Library. See their Facebook post and Matthew Edney\u2019s tweet for photos. Bert died in 2019; he was a stalwart of the Washington Map Society and friend of this blog, and apparently quite the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Memorabilia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Memorabilia","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/memorabilia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1894,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/05\/map-books-of-2016-updated\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788073,"position":1},"title":"Map Books of 2016 Updated","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 May 2016","format":"status","excerpt":"A few more\u00a0books have been added to the Map Books of 2016 page (for which I have relied upon\u00a0reader submissions, as well as shameless cribbing from\u00a0Bert Johnson's indefatigable posts to the Washington Map Society Facebook group; he often tracks upcoming book releases).","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Housekeeping&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Housekeeping","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/housekeeping\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1785271,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/04\/marie-tharp-on-the-bbc-world-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788073,"position":2},"title":"Marie Tharp on the BBC World Service","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 April 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Still another profile of ocean cartographer Marie Tharp, this time from the BBC World Service's\u00a0Witness program: it's a nine-minute audio clip called \"Mapping the Ocean's Secrets.\" [Osher] On the WMS Facebook group, Bert Johnson had this to say about this latest profile: \"Hers is a standout story, but I wish\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geology","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/geology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/tharp-heezen-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4020,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/03\/rodney-w-shirley\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788073,"position":3},"title":"Rodney W. Shirley","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 March 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"According to a Facebook post by the Washington Map Society's Bert Johnson,\u00a0Rodney W. Shirley, the author of several\u00a0books of cartographic antiquarian research, including\u00a0The Mapping of the World,\u00a0Courtiers and Cannibals, Angels and Amazons, and other titles on early printed maps, died last Saturday. I\u00a0have not been able to find an obituary\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":815139,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/12\/two-more-books-for-2017\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788073,"position":4},"title":"Two More Books for 2017","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 December 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The year 2017 is almost at an end, but two\u00a0more map books, published last month, have just come to my attention (via, as usual, the WMS\u2019s indefatigable Bert Johnson). These, then, are very late additions to the Map Books of 2017 page: Sad Topographies by Damien Rudd (Simon & Schuster),\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;GIS&quot;","block_context":{"text":"GIS","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/gis\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sad-topographies-115x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sad-topographies-115x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sad-topographies-115x150.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sad-topographies-115x150.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sad-topographies-115x150.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4063,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/03\/map-exhibitions-around-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788073,"position":5},"title":"Map Exhibitions Around the World","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 March 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Mapping the Philippine Seas, an exhibition of 165 maps and sea charts of the Philippine archipelago from the 16th to the 19th century from the private collections of the Philippine Map Collectors Society. 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