CQ Politics looks ahead to the next round of congressional redistricting in the U.S., and includes the interesting story of how the GOP’s attempt to rejig the congressional districts in Pennsylvania in their favour ended up producing the opposite...

This morning I notice, thanks to a tip by mapperz, that a number of additional Canadian cities have been added to Street View: Edmonton, Hamilton, London (Ontario), Saskatoon, St. John’s, Sudbury, Winnipeg, Victoria. The cities surrounding Toronto...

Henry Walling’s five-foot-square “Map of the Counties of Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket, Massachusetts,” produced in 1858, is now available as a hardcover book, the Cape Cod Times reports: “The new book’s maps were shot digitally by Truro...

I’m about halfway through Toby Lester’s Fourth Part of the World and hope to have a review for you soon. In the meantime, check out this brief review in the New York Times’s travel section that covers both Lester’s book and Frank Jacobs’s...

As a way of promoting itself during the holiday shopping season, eBay has mapped “all U.S.-based buyer and seller transactions on eBay on Black Friday, November 27, 2009 (12:00:00 AM to 11:59:59 PM EST).” Via All Points Blog and...