Map Resources Blog

Attention set dressers.... it's easy to license Map Resources maps. Use one in your next production.  See who else is using maps on Map Resources Movie & TV Board.

Some road trip ideas + maps!

Using a few off-the-shelf maps, along with some simple Adobe Illustrator edits, you can create professional looking map graphics to illustrate news stories.

Investigative journalists are becoming schooled in the use and preparation of maps to support their work.

Last week we watched a vivid demonstration showing the difficulty of depicting the earth (a sphere) as a flat image (standard paper map).  Today, we collected some resources that go a little deeper in explaining the strengths and weaknesses of various projections. GIS Geography offers a their take on the limitations of flat maps, including extremely clear descriptions of the 3 types of map projections, Conic, Cylindrical and Azimuthal. If all this talk about map projections has gotten you curious about the various ways the earth is projected, go here to see 50 map projections.   For a truly encyclopedic...