"Most notably Kartograph allows to select and fine-tune the map projection, which is like the fundamental equipment for telling stories with maps" If that doesn't already make you excited, this introductory blog post should do the trick. Lovely.

"The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, the foundational document that established Manhattan’s famous street grid." Closes 15 April, 2012.

"So what makes this map different from the Rand McNally version you can buy at a bookstore? Or from the dusty National Geographic pull-down mounted in your child’s elementary school classroom? Can one paper wall map really outshine all others—so definitively that it becomes award-worthy? I’m here to tell you it can. This is a masterful map. And the secret is in its careful attention to design."

"What does seven billion look like? Dencity is a map of global population density as the world reaches this important milestone."

"TileMill can now be downloaded as a single-file Mac OS X app that can be dragged into the Applications folder and launched from your dock. Thanks to the packaging wizardry of Dane Springmeyer it is no longer necessary to have Xcode, know how to use a Terminal, or wrangle through dependencies before making your first map."

"I’ve seen a few code implementations of Bucky’s design over the years [but] I hadn’t seen a client-side implementation until I saw this map in the examples section of Jeff Heer and Mike Bostock’s excellent JavaScript visualization framework Protovis. In this post I just show how their JavaScript Dymaxion code can be brought into OpenLayers as a custom projection."

Lately I’ve been working on a series of river maps, done in the style of Harry Beck‘s famous London Underground design.

"Here is one of those books which defies the current bookworld gloom." This sort of sums up what I'd write about the book.

"The BBC Dimensions site is probably my favourite Google Maps project of the year." Crumbs.

"It turns out there are a lot of official and unofficial ways to define London’s extent." Oliver O'Brien writes a post I've been meaning to for ages (although he misses some definitions I'd use, or have seen people use: the combined Cities of London and Westminster, the inner London ring road, zone 1, and the old 0(1)71 dialing code area spring to mind). Maybe I still should...