All Over the Map

A.D. 1498 - The Discovery of America

I grew up reading National Geographic. We saved every issue, in order, on several shelves in a glass-doored bookcase. The subscription started long before I came along so there were a few decades of issues, and maps, to catch up on. I always loved unfolding and studying the maps that came each month. When we bought our first home, we papered the TV room wall with National Geographic's "World Classic Wall Map." Despite Google and other online resources, the wall map continues to be a frequent destination to understand where in the world things are happening.

Betsy Mason and Greg Miller, the map bloggers at WIRED, have digitally moved to National Geographic and their new All Over the Map blog. Of course, they're also @mapdragons on Twitter and mapdragons at Instagram. Their latest tweet is about recruiting cartographers to map the surface of the planet Mars.