Author Archives: Kimberly Kiess

I picked Something About Maps to be this blog of the week. This blog was created by Daniel Huffman who used to be teacher and a chemist and now is a freelance cartographer. This blog is where he publishes maps … Continue reading →

What is something most grown Americans cannot go the day without? Coffee. The World Atlas of Coffee by James Hoffman explores the origins of coffee, the role of colonialism and how it affected its production, and it maps the growing … Continue reading →

Before this class, there were only two maps I interpreted regularly: an app called Maps and Snap Map. Maps assisted me in traveling from place to place while Snap Map had a more obscure purpose; Snap Map allowed me to … Continue reading →

The Post War-New World Map created by Maurice Gomberg in October 1941, but not published until 1942, provided the world with a new and intriguing prediction of the world would look once the dust from world war two settled. While … Continue reading →