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.

We love that maps make their way into so many aspects of our lives and we especially love when they find their way into our favorite books, TV shows, and movies! A Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter all feature some really amazing new old-looking maps that add to that thrill of becoming immersed in their fantastical worlds.

Tourist maps might seem to have changed a lot between the 13th century and the 21st century, and indeed they have, but we also notice similarities such as the use of pictorial representations of salient landmarks and the editing out of unnecessary clutter.

In this episode, three political maps are used as launching points for discussions around modern-day ethics in map making.

Hello map fans! In this episode we pick apart three very interesting map projections, one that everyone has either already heard of or seen, and two that are much newer. But not before quickly defining what a projection is in the first place.