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15th century

A 500-year-old map used by Columbus reveals its secrets

by Greg Miller
Posted on October 8, 2018November 22, 2019

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Map Dragons is written and produced by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller. We are science journalists who love maps and the stories behind them. In 2014 we founded a cartography blog at Wired called Map Lab. In 2016 the blog moved to National Geographic, where it was renamed All Over the Map. Our book of the same name was published by National Geographic in 2018.

Here, you will find a selection of our previous blog posts, stories we've written for a variety of other publications, and going forward, some Map Dragons exclusives. We hope you enjoy the site!

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Nice map design on this 2016 Sonoma Valley pinot noir. #maplabel #winemap

This 1871 @usgs map of #yellowstonenationalpark has some nice fuzzy topography.

Topographic map of Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico. No wonder the Zapotec chose this spot for a city circa 500 BC. It feels like the top of the world. #montealban #oaxaca #mexico #map

#Zion National Park turns 100 this year. This map made by the Zion Natural History Association is only 32 years old. #nationalparks #zionnationalpark #geologicalmap

Leaf-map sculpture in front of the Chicago Office of Emergency Management

It’s amazing how much work went into the details of this ~1940 WPA scale model of San Francisco. The whole thing is 42x38ft and has 6,000 removable city blocks. Pieces are on display at city libraries, and @david_rumsey_maps has made a digital composite. #map #sanfrancisco

Best staircase ever. But hard to take your eyes off the maps and watch your step at Stanford’s @rumseymapcenter #map #stairs #stanford

Spotted in the wild: a pristine copy of the 1979 California Water Atlas at the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture in Golden Gate Park. This groovy series of crop pattern maps also appears in All Over the Map. #map #california #alloverthemap

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