Welcome to Mapspam, the world’s finest palindrome-titled online map collection

Please see the blog posts for discussion of some of the maps in the collection, which tends to focus on cartography for comunication and education, innovative comparative geography, and the nexus of strategy and cartography. There is a particular focus on nineteenth century exploration, American geography textbooks, and commercial cartography from World War II.

  • Monteith Comparative Area and Shape
  • Rhode Island as a Comparative Area Symbol
  • Infographic by Adolph Steinwehr
  • South America
    Balloon View of South America
  • Comparative View of Mountains
  • FDR Postwar Partition Annotation
  • First Transatlantic Cable
  • Exploration of Darfur, 1880
  • Lake Alexandra
  • Comparative Descent of Rivers
  • Monteith Himalayas Cross Section