{"id":1835884,"date":"2025-01-13T21:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T02:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1835884"},"modified":"2025-01-13T21:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T02:15:05","slug":"a-cartographers-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/a-cartographers-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cartographer\u2019s Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Miguel Garc\u00eda \u00c1lvarez of Mapas Milhaud<\/a> has been writing a Spanish-language newsletter about maps<\/a> for nearly two years. Now he\u2019s started a newsletter in English: A Cartographer\u2019s Tale<\/a>. He writes<\/a>: \u201cIn this newsletter, I will adapt some of the work I publish (and have published) in Milhaud Maps into English. I like to talk about adapting, as it takes more than a mere translation to let a text make sense and take shape in another language. There will also be articles that I will first publish in English and later adapt to Spanish.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miguel Garc\u00eda \u00c1lvarez of Mapas Milhaud has been writing a Spanish-language newsletter about maps for nearly two years. Now he\u2019s started a newsletter in English: A Cartographer\u2019s Tale. He writes: \u201cIn this newsletter, I will… 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-1835884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-blogs-newsletters","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4585,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/07\/the-cartographers-daughter\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835884,"position":0},"title":"The Cartographer’s Daughter","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 July 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Noting for future reference: The Cartographer's Daughter, a middle grade novel by Kiran Millwood Hargrave that came out last November from Knopf. \"[W]hen a series of mysterious events shakes the community, it\u2019s Isabella\u2014daughter to the island\u2019s only mapmaker\u2014who will lead a party of explorers into the forest in search of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Maps and Literature"","block_context":{"text":"Maps and Literature","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/maps-and-literature\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cartographers-daughter-97x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5987,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2015\/05\/clichea\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835884,"position":1},"title":"Clich\u00e9a","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 May 2015","format":"image","excerpt":"A Redditor called Sarithus has created a map of Clich\u00e9a, \"a map based on fantasy tropes that also pokes a little fun at unoriginal map makers.\" Like others of its kind, it hearkens back, probably undeliberately, to early modern maps of Cockaigne and Schlaraffenland and other satirical maps. 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One major issue with most modern maps of languages is that they often consist of just a single point for each language - this is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Linguistics"","block_context":{"text":"Linguistics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/linguistics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835887,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835884\/revisions\/1835887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}