{"id":1788917,"date":"2020-06-18T13:31:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788917"},"modified":"2020-06-18T13:31:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:31:28","slug":"pandemic-mapping-and-posterity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/06\/pandemic-mapping-and-posterity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Mapping and Posterity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The flurry of COVID-19 maps that have emerged in the first half of this year will be something that future cartographers and librarians will look back on, both in terms of historical records that need preserving, which is the subject of this CityLab<\/em> interview with Library of Congress map librarian John Hessler<\/a>, and in terms of best practices for disease mapping\u2014what to do and what not to do when mapping a pandemic\u2014which is the subject of this Financial Times<\/em> video interview with Kenneth Field<\/a>. (Both from early May; I\u2019m playing catchup right now.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The flurry of COVID-19 maps that have emerged in the first half of this year will be something that future cartographers and librarians will look back on, both in terms of historical records that need… 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":[29,155],"tags":[1413,1426,228,48,66,1445],"class_list":["post-1788917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","category-health","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-disease","tag-libraries","tag-library-of-congress","tag-pandemics","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788783,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/library-of-congress-livestream-on-the-history-of-pandemic-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788917,"position":0},"title":"Library of Congress Livestream on the History of Pandemic Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 April 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Tomorrow (23 April 2020), the Library of Congress will be livestreaming No One Was Immune: Mapping the Great Pandemics from Columbus to COVID-19, in which John Hessler and Marie Arana will \u201cdiscuss the sweep of history from the 1500s smallpox pandemic that decimated the indigenous population of the Americas to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Health"","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/health\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2765,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/09\/library-of-congress-exhibition-mapping-a-growing-nation\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788917,"position":1},"title":"Library of Congress Exhibition: Mapping a Growing Nation","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 September 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Speaking of the Library of Congress, yesterday it opened a new exhibition both online and at the Library's North Exhibition Gallery.\u00a0Mapping a Growing Nation: From Independence to Statehood features the best known copy of Abel Buell's 1784\u00a0New and Correct Map of the United States of North America\u2014\u201cwhich, among other things,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"buell","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/buell.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/buell.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/buell.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/buell.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1805823,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/01\/citylab-continues-its-covid-mapping-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788917,"position":2},"title":"CityLab Continues Its COVID Mapping Project","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 January 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Bloomberg CityLab is continuing its COVID-19 mapping project: they\u2019ve issued another call for reader-submitted maps. \u201c[T]he new year is a chance to take stock of where we stand now. 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