Africa – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 23:08:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Africa – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Are Africa and South America That Hard to Tell Apart? https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/02/are-africa-and-south-america-that-hard-to-tell-apart/ Mon, 05 Feb 2018 23:08:09 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1784918

People seem to be having an awfully hard time telling Africa apart from South America and swapping the former in for the latter: Exhibit A courtesy of Harrison Cole; Exhibit B via Reddit. [Gretchen Peterson, MapFail]

]]> 1784918 Sotheby’s to Auction Private Collection of North African Maps https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/11/sothebys-to-auction-private-collection-of-north-african-maps/ Tue, 01 Nov 2016 23:12:10 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3217 More]]> On 15 November Sotheby’s will be auctioning Gerhard Lerchbaumer’s collection of maps of North Africa. Comprising more than a hundred maps  dating from the 15th through the 19th centuries (Sotheby’s provides a list), the collection is expected to fetch between £60,000 and £80,000. [Tony Campbell]

]]> 3217 Mapping Burkina Faso https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/01/mapping-burkina-faso/ Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:34:28 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=273 Burkina Faso’s maps hadn’t been updated in 50 years. The PC200 Burkina project aimed to change that. [via]

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