# Cartography Media
Keeping up to date with scientific articles and the state of the art ist easily achieved by engaging with the community and reading magazines and blogs. Here is a collection on where to find interesting publishers and people to follow.
# Cartography and GIS Blogs
Get lost in this abundance of compelling blogs focusing on cartography, geography, maps and GIS! There is no particular order. If there are posts in other languages than english, it is indicated by an emoji flag.
- Geoawesomeness (opens new window)
- The Map Room (opens new window)
- Digital Geography (opens new window) (🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪)
- Ian Muehlenhaus' Map Design Blog (opens new window)
- somethingaboutmaps (opens new window)
- GIS for thought (opens new window)
- Adventures in Mapping (opens new window)
- GISCafé (opens new window) (🇬🇧 / 🇪🇸)
- GIS News (opens new window) (🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪)
- Cartonerd (opens new window)
- FreeGeographyTools (opens new window)
- Gretchen Peterson (opens new window)
- GIS Ninja (opens new window)
- The Afternoon Map (opens new window)
- geomaticblog (opens new window)
- Sound Cartography (opens new window) (🇬🇧 / 🇫🇷)
- The Wandering Cartographer (opens new window)
- A Cartographic View (opens new window)
- Maps and the City (opens new window)
- Art & Cartography (opens new window)
- Making Maps (opens new window)
- BIG map blog (opens new window)
- Mapperz (opens new window)
- Hannes Blog (opens new window)
- Cartography Msc. News (opens new window)
- Brice Wolfgang (opens new window)
- Blog of Chris Henrick (opens new window)
- Esri ArcGIS Blogs (opens new window)
- Lovell Johns (opens new window)
- GIS&T Book (opens new window)
- Spatially Adjusted (opens new window)
- The Map Kiwi (opens new window)
- Big Think Strange Maps (opens new window)
- 3develop (opens new window)
- goCart (opens new window) (🇩🇪)
- GIS Netzwerk (opens new window) (🇩🇪)
- Landkartenindex (opens new window) (🇩🇪)
- GIS is it (opens new window) (🇩🇪)
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Some of the list items were originally found on "Top 40 Cartography Blogs & Websites for Cartographers To Follow in 2019" (opens new window) but mostly collected and bookmarked over the years.
# Newsletter
Spatial Awareness (opens new window)
Robin Hawkes puts together a bi-weekly issue of map related content collaborated by the community eager to share their findings!
# Books
- Mark Monmonier: How to lie with maps (opens new window)
- Gretchen N. Peterson: GIS Cartography - A Guide to Effective Map Design (opens new window)
- Gretchen N. Peterson: Cartographer's Toolkit (opens new window)
- Gretchen N. Peterson: QGIS Map Design (opens new window)
- Cindy Brewer: Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users (opens new window)
- Ian Muehlenhaus: Web Cartography: Map Design for Interactive and Mobile Devices (opens new window)
- Dent, Torgusen, Hodler: Cartography: Thematic Map Design (opens new window)
- Kollektiv Orangotango+: This is not an Atlas (opens new window) Open Access
# Magazines & Journals
Many official and scientific journals are published by National Cartographic Societies.
Cartographic Perspectives (opens new window)
NACIS distribute an intensive journal dedicated to original and creative research in cartography and GIS and open source licence!
Cartographica (opens new window)
The Canadian Cartographic Assiciation is responsible for this magazine and issues scientific publications and current news of cartography.
The Cartographic Journal (opens new window)
Scientific papers and official articles regarding cartographic research are collected in this magazine published on behalf of the British Cartographic Society.
Kartographische Nachrichten (opens new window) (🇩🇪 / 🇬🇧)
Published by the German Cartographic Society the magazine gives place to scientific research and news regarding cartography and GIS in Germany. Most articles are translated in english. As a member of the society you automatically get an issue every 3 months.
Katapult Magazine (opens new window) (🇩🇪)
An unusual and provocative approach with a focus on design on current topics backed by studies and scientific research.
gis.business & gis.science (opens new window) (🇩🇪)
The first is focused on innovative approaches inside the GIS industry, second on scientific research and publications.
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Geo-Leo (opens new window) has a huge list of e-magazines on the topics related to earth and space.
# Podcasts
- VerySpatial (opens new window)
- Geodorable (opens new window)
- Speaking of GIS (opens new window)
- Esri Science of Where (opens new window)
- Mapscaping (opens new window)
- The Mappyist Hour (opens new window)
- Geointeresting (opens new window)
- Scene from Above (opens new window)
- DirectionsMag (opens new window)
- Cageyjames & GeoBabbler (opens new window)
- Geographic Imaginations (opens new window)
- Location Matters (opens new window)
- Measure This! (opens new window)
# Portfolios
The following portfolio list some impressive work from fellow cartographers and definitely invite to browse their projects! The order is utterly random.
- juliamia (opens new window)
- Ginny Mason (opens new window)
- hanshack (opens new window)
- Laura Lou (opens new window)
- Jessica Gosling-Goldsmith (opens new window)
- GISwienton (opens new window)
- somethingaboutmaps Portfolio (opens new window)
- Vanessa Knoppke-Wetzel (opens new window)
- Andy Woodruff (opens new window)
- Parker Ziegler (opens new window)
- Radical Cartography (opens new window)
- Mathias Leroy (opens new window)
- The Map Kiwi Portfolio (opens new window)
- Chris Henrick Cartography (opens new window) old (opens new window)
- Halycon Maps (opens new window)
- Jonah Adkins (opens new window)
- Clare Trainor (opens new window)
- Map Smith (opens new window)
- Ryan Allison - GIS Portfolio (opens new window)
- Benjamin Bauman (opens new window)
- Dr. Olaf Schnabel (opens new window)
- MapStyle (opens new window)
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Want to make your own GIS / cartography portfolio? Have a look at this brief discussion on reddit (opens new window) for platform suggestions.