{"id":1788140,"date":"2019-12-05T19:34:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788140"},"modified":"2019-12-05T19:34:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:34:24","slug":"mason-and-millers-third-act-map-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/12\/mason-and-millers-third-act-map-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason and Miller’s Third Act: Map Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Betsy Mason and Greg Miller started blogging about maps at Wired Map Lab<\/a> (which ran from 2013 to 2015), then moved to National Geographic<\/em><\/a>, where their blog, All Over the Map<\/a>, provided first-rate coverage of all matters cartographic, and formed the core of their book, coincidentally also called All Over the Map<\/em><\/a>, which came out at the end of last year (see my review<\/a>). Unfortunately the blog seems to have come to a close at about the same time the book came out. But now it looks like Betsy and Greg have struck out on their own with a new website, Map Dragons<\/a><\/strong>, where they promise<\/a> more map stories soon. Can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Betsy Mason and Greg Miller started blogging about maps at Wired Map Lab (which ran from 2013 to 2015), then moved to National Geographic, where their blog, All Over the Map, provided first-rate coverage 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":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1788140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-blogs-newsletters","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1951,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/05\/all-over-the-map-a-national-geographic-map-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788140,"position":0},"title":"All Over the Map: A National Geographic Map Blog","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 May 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"You'd think that National Geographic\u2019s stable of blogs would have included a map blog (I'm leaving aside Contours, a project of National Geographic Maps, which went dark in 2011),\u00a0but that apparently hasn't been the case until yesterday, with the launch of\u00a0All Over the Map, co-written by former Map Lab bloggers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogs & Newsletters"","block_context":{"text":"Blogs & Newsletters","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/blogs-newsletters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3667,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/12\/all-over-the-maps-best-maps-of-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788140,"position":1},"title":"All Over the Map’s Best Maps of 2016","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 December 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Are we already at the end of the year, and it's time for the year-in-review writeups? 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