{"id":1845174,"date":"2025-11-23T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1845174"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:44:03","slug":"above-below-cartography-beyond-terrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/11\/above-below-cartography-beyond-terrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Above &amp; Below: Cartography Beyond Terrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"1845175\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/11\/above-below-cartography-beyond-terrain\/above-below-rumsey\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/above-below-rumsey.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,900\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"above-below-rumsey\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/above-below-rumsey-240x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/above-below-rumsey.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/above-below-rumsey-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Poster from the Above &amp; Below exhibition at Stanford\u2019s David Rumsey Map Center.\" class=\"wp-image-1845175\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/above-below-rumsey-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/above-below-rumsey-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/above-below-rumsey-320x400.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/above-below-rumsey.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.stanford.edu\/event\/above-below-cartography-beyond-terrain\">Above &amp; Below: Cartography Beyond Terrain<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, an exhibition at Stanford Library\u2019s David Rumsey Map Center that launched in conjunction with this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/09\/2025-ruderman-conference-announced\/\">Ruderman Conference<\/a>, \u201cexplores how cartography depicts the depths of the Earth, the ocean floor, weather systems, the solar system, and even the seemingly intangible internet\u2014anything but the thin boundary that divides land and sky that we tend to associate with maps.\u201d Free admission, on display through 27 February 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above &amp; Below: Cartography Beyond Terrain, an exhibition at Stanford Library\u2019s David Rumsey Map Center that launched in conjunction with this year\u2019s Ruderman Conference, \u201cexplores how cartography depicts the depths of the Earth, the ocean&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/11\/above-below-cartography-beyond-terrain\/\">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":[{"did":"did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo","date":"2025-11-23T16:42:52+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3m6cqyhlm6u2p","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3m6cqyhlm6u2p\",\"cid\":\"bafyreiaylkd4e37vc4diuyvvi2gl3gzixvxvy4zloju2vk4cbzaqbud33u\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreieft76m2mkllm5zw2crhf2ll4n5nlusctup55dmspwy3r76zfgaf4\",\"rev\":\"3m6cqyhlyv42p\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,48,1340,400,401],"class_list":["post-1845174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-exhibitions","tag-libraries","tag-ruderman-conference","tag-rumsey","tag-stanford","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787356,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/2019-ruderman-conference-announced\/","url_meta":{"origin":1845174,"position":0},"title":"2019 Ruderman Conference Announced","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 May 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"The 2019 edition of the biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography has been announced. 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