Gallery – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Sat, 06 Feb 2016 13:00:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Gallery – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Bailey Henderson’s Sea Monster Sculptures https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/02/bailey-hendersons-sea-monster-sculptures/ Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:51:57 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=737 More]]> Sea monsters are a familiar feature of early modern European maps. Toronto-based sculptor Bailey Henderson has rendered them in real life, casting them in bronze and then painting them. It’s incredible work that really does evoke the original. More details at Hi-Fructose magazine. [via]

For more sea monsters on maps, see my review of Chet Van Duzer’s Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps. You should also be aware that #MapMonsterMonday is a thing on Twitter.

]]> 737 Mapping Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/01/mapping-nitrogen-dioxide-pollution/ Thu, 28 Jan 2016 22:46:10 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=588 More]]> A decade’s worth of data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument aboard the Aura satellite reveals the change in global nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution from 2005 to 2014: down significantly in some areas, due to stricter emissions controls, but up sharply in others. More at NASA Earth Observatory.

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