{"id":1951,"date":"2016-05-12T07:26:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T11:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2016-05-12T07:26:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T11:26:44","slug":"all-over-the-map-a-national-geographic-map-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/05\/all-over-the-map-a-national-geographic-map-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"All Over the Map: A National Geographic Map Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’d think that National Geographic<\/em>\u2019s stable of blogs<\/a> would have included a map blog (I’m leaving aside Contours<\/a><\/em>, a project of National Geographic Maps, which went dark in 2011),\u00a0but that apparently hasn’t been the case until yesterday, with the launch<\/a> of\u00a0All Over the Map<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, co-written by former Map Lab<\/em> bloggers Betsy Mason and Greg Miller. Map Lab<\/em> closed down last November<\/a>; it’s good to see Betsy and Greg back at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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… 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-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-blogs-newsletters","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788140,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/12\/mason-and-millers-third-act-map-dragons\/","url_meta":{"origin":1951,"position":0},"title":"Mason and Miller’s Third Act: Map Dragons","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"5 December 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"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 all matters cartographic, and formed the core of their book, coincidentally also called All Over\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":1951,"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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