For cartophiles everywhere

[Clitheroekid]

I love maps (does that make me a cartophile, or `carto' as The Sun would no doubt term it?) and if there any other cartos out there I hope they'll enjoy this copy of Mercator's Universalis Tabula Iuxta Ptolemaeum (published in 1578). You can magnify it up to a very readable size.

https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail ... m-mercator

It's interesting to see the old Latin / Roman names of the European countries – Lusitania for what’s now (approximately) Portugal, and Dacia for (even more approximately) Romania, for example.

But Scandinavia seems to have got rather a raw deal!

[UncleEbenezer]

But Scandinavia seems to have got rather a raw deal!

To the Romans it would be somewhere the traders went and brought back the precious Amber.

Though that could also be further east.

[staffordian]

I think these have been mentioned before, but in case anyone hasn't picked them up, the National Library of Scotland have a great selection of old OS and other maps, which can be overlaid with satellite images, such as...

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=1 ... yers=6&b=1

Fascinating to look at the changes over time.

[GrahamPlatt]

Then can I recommend “On the map” by Simon Garfield.
I received it as a Christmas present last year.

https://www.amazon.com/Map-Mind-Expandi ... 1592407803

[Dod101]

I love maps (does that make me a cartophile, or `carto' as The Sun would no doubt term it?) and if there any other cartos out there I hope they'll enjoy this copy of Mercator's Universalis Tabula Iuxta Ptolemaeum (published in 1578). You can magnify it up to a very readable size.

https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail ... m-mercator

It's interesting to see the old Latin / Roman names of the European countries – Lusitania for what’s now (approximately) Portugal, and Dacia for (even more approximately) Romania, for example.

But Scandinavia seems to have got rather a raw deal!

I learn something every day. The only time I have heard of Lusitania was the old Cunard liner of that name, sunk in the First World War.

Dod

[stewamax]

Well that's sunk Portugal then.