urhere Gretchen Peterson, Vanessa Knoppke-Wetzel

Three fantastically different ways maps are used to persuade you to spend your money.

Want to talk about food and maps? This is the episode for you! We explore some maps that are weird, informative, and beautiful!

Game maps have some of the coolest cartographic details around and the three we talk about today are no exception!

Rivers, mines, and ice: all natural resources that are mapped in unique and wonderful ways and thoroughly analyzed in this episode.

Two old garden maps and one new one provide fodder for cartographic discussion including the use of texture, generalization, balance, and lots and lots of dotted lines.

These three amazingly beautiful and useful maps from around the world widen our cartographic experience, show us new ways to depict geography, and teach us that varying traditions of map making all had one thing in common: they help us understand our world.