We were travelling and we started thinking why the lines on the latitudinal axis of a flat map are always represented as a curve on a flight trajectory (excluding the equator). The debate comes then from the trajectory Japan Indonesia as shown in the picture. My brother says the correct line representation in the red line, while I say it’s the black one. WHICH ONE IS IT?!?!?!?

I'm working on a commissioned painting of a friend's cousin's grandma, and I'd love to find a clearer image of the map that's behind her in this photo for reference. Google image search gave me nothing. Anyone have any ideas?

I'm looking for a website where you can look at the earth or even just the US using different types of maps (elevation, weather, plant zones, temperature, etc.) all on one website? Like flip between them? I feel like there's gotta be something like that, but I've only been able to find geological map and weather/radar maps. Also not on one website. I need this for comparison purposes and I need them all to be of the same up-to-dateness. Some type of software, even paid, would also work. Can be professional or for a broad audience. If anyone would know I bet it would be someone here. Thanks.

Hey I would love to get a cool atlas but I don't want to spend $300. Any recommendations under $100 that are still good?

I've been wondering if there is a kind of map/projection that takes advantage of the fact that the surface area of a sphere is exactly four times the area of a circle with the same radius. I'm not sure if/how much it would end up distorting the image of the surface of the sphere, how useful it would be, or even exactly what it would look like. Is there a name for this kind of map (if it exists)? Thanks!

I am writing a report describing work we did in West Africa, talking with residents from a few dozen villages across Sierra Leone. I have a single latitude and longitude point for each village, and would like to map these on a simplified map of the country. I would like to display a few villages differently (e.g., some as dots, some as triangles, to differentiate between two groups). Ideally, I would also like to highlight each district (administrative regions in Sierra Leone) so they stand out - we worked in three districts only. I don't have any GIS data to delineate these districts, and hope this might be available in the software. I need open source, so it's easy to publish our results open access. I'm taking a look at QGIS, but there doesn't seem to be great tutorials, nor does there seem to be a robust online community to help new users. I could be wrong here, but their community page isn't encouraging.

I suppose my question to y'all might be: Is QGIS the right way to go? Are there good "getting started" tutorials, that might help me with my specific situation? Is there a good online spot for specific questions?

I've only just started looking (my maps person just let me know they can no longer work on this project, sigh, so it's up to me...)

I need help with it for a school project and its kinda last min but help please. its also for a planet i made up and not for earth.

Is that afirmation correct or incorrect?

The Earth's gravitational acceleration is not uniform over the geoid, which is merely an equipotential surface—a sufficient condition for a ball to remain at rest rather than roll on the geoid.

What is used to define the 0 height in a Geoid model?

Is the Geoid equall to the real "solid" surface of the earth? it is not, isn't it?. Not taking into consideration water bodies.

Why is it not posible to use GPS to generate a topography map? Supposing you don't have vertical or horizontal error, would you be able to generate a Topography map with GPS?

I have being very confused with that.

I want to write a piece of fiction based on the game Book of Hours. It's about a cartographer who dreams of a different occult dimension and wants to map it. But I don't know what to research. I keep imagining someone like Indiana Jones trekking spaces and drawing on a map, but it's probably not as glamorous as that.

I tried looking up to see if there are any cartographer chronicles or memoirs. Can anyone help or point me in the direction I want?

My father is a HUGE history (specifically war history) nerd. I was was wondering if anyone know some good map related gifts. I am looking for something like a book of maps throughout history, or battlefield maps. This is not my area of expertise so I am a little lost here.

Unfortunately, all of his walls are already full. So I cant get him a framed map or anything to hang up.

Any ideas would be great, thank you all in advance!

I would post in the bigger map subreddits but they get butthurt about these types of posts, so sorry if this is off topic.

Hi, For my uni project, I want to build an application that will combine Google My Maps and Pinterest where you have an editor where you can create your maps/routes and share them as a post or paste them on some global map (if I would really want to implement such functionality).

Currently, it is on a draft stage and I would want to hear other people's opinions. So please complete my survey https://forms.gle/NvMHL8HmMhwkuKMu8

I'm looking to hire some remote cartographers for my map making business. Knowledge of design, QGIS and Adobe Illustrator or photoshop is a plus.

30-40 hours with pto after 3 months.

Ive asked, but not sure what the going pay rate, so its negotiable.

Interested? Shoot me a message!

Over the last two years, I made a note every time I saw a cool map or an interesting cartography website. I thought this list might be helpful, so I published it on my blog. You can find the list (as a Google Sheet) at this link: hkuril.com/0000. It also has information about the social media of each website, to make it easier to follow them. The blog post itself has more information, including my top 10 picks.

Please let me know if you have any questions, or if you are aware of any other cartography websites that I should add to the list.

My 11-year old nephew is really into maps of all varieties. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for gift ideas that might be fun. Honestly, the sky's the limit on what it could be—games, historical themes, tools, educational resources, you name it.

Thanks!