Boston Globe – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:31:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Boston Globe – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 The Boston Globe on ‘Breathing Room’ https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/03/the-boston-globe-on-breathing-room/ Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:31:59 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1785188 The Boston Globe now has a writeup of the Leventhal’s latest exhibition, Breathing Room: Mapping Boston’s Green Spaces (which I told you about on Monday).

]]> 1785188 Mapping Boston’s Bed Bugs https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/08/mapping-bostons-bed-bugs/ Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:46:28 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=2739 More]]> boston-bed-bugThe City of Boston fields several hundred bed bug complaints a year. The Boston Globe has put together an interactive map showing every complaint made from January 2012 onward—1,822 in all. (The dots show date only, and the map doesn’t zoom in enough to out anybody specific.) [Leventhal Map Center]

]]> 2739 What’s Going to Happen to the Boston Globe’s Marble Map of New England? https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/06/whats-going-to-happen-to-the-boston-globes-marble-map-of-new-england/ Wed, 01 Jun 2016 15:22:20 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=2107 More]]> The problem with big maps—the Electric Map of Gettysburg, the B.C. Challenger Map—is that they’re exceedingly difficult to move when the time comes. Betsy Mason at All Over the Map reports that this is now the situation at the Boston Globe: since 1978 their headquarters has been the home of an 18-by-12-foot, four-ton marble map of New England that had originally been commissioned for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in 1953. But now the cash-strapped Globe is moving to smaller digs, and there isn’t room for the map. Boston’s a relative hotbed of map activity, so I’m hopeful it can find a home.

See my earlier (pre-2011) posts about big maps.

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