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Two years ago, after I brought The Map Room<\/a> to a close, despondent readers asked me where they could go for their map fix, now that I was denying it to them. At the time I couldn’t point to a map blog that covered maps in general, rather than a specific niche (e.g., online maps but not antique maps). Last month, though, saw the launch of Wired Map Lab<\/a>, a member of the evil empire of Wired<\/em>‘s science blogs. Looks like it’s off to an ambitious start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two years ago, after I brought The Map Room to a close, despondent readers asked me where they could go for their map fix, now that I was denying it to them. At the time… 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-5645","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":5645,"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":1786860,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/12\/all-over-the-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":5645,"position":1},"title":"All Over the Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 December 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"What works online does not necessarily translate very well into a book, but All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey (National Geographic, October), a very fine book from our friends Betsy Mason and Greg Miller, is strong evidence to the contrary. 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