How to Hide an Empire tells the story of the United States outside the United States – from nineteenth-century conquests like Alaska, Hawai‘i, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, to the catalogue of islands, archipelagos and military bases dotted around the globe over which the Stars and Stripes flies. Many are thousands of miles from the mainland; all are central to its history. Roifield talks to author Daniel Immerwahr

We also hear from listeners about their stories of Christmas travel and here the story of Santa, from Turkish saint to commercial juggernaut.

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This month Roifield talks to Mick Ashworth about the world of maps and map-making – its history, evolution and latest innovations and his new book Why North Is Up?

This episode features calls from Kieren, Ben, Bob and Mia about being wide-eyed about new places.

The audio postcard is from our Claire in the rain forest.

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Jonn Elledge of the New Statesman and City Metric site and podcast talks about transit maps, Helsinki and his love of Spanish cities.

The Helsinki map is the work of Jug Cerovic, here is Jug's Twitter and his website

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Download the new Map Corner app to your smart phone with this link https://flickchat.page.link/wiBcVkQcEkRYU8uo8

US Pershing Map and info on freeways

Why did Dwight D. Eisenhower invent the interstates system if we already had U.S. highways? - Quora

Italian Autostrade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostrade_of_Italy#/media/File:Italia_-_mappa_autostrade.svg

Autostrade of Italy

Italy became the first country to inaugurate motorways reserved for motor vehicles with A1[4]. The Milano-Laghi ...

Autobahns of the Third Reich

Stock Photo - Nazism / National Socialism, architecture, autobahn construction, net of the autobahns of the Third Reich with supplemental routes, map, December 1940

Stock Photo - Nazism / National Socialism, architecture, autobahn constr...

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Distribution of Redheads

r/MapPorn - Percentage of red haired people in Europe

106 votes and 39 comments so far on Reddit

Mapping redheads: which country has the most?

Mona Chalabi

Ever wondered which country tops the ginger charts? And where can you find the highest concentration of blondes?

Distribution of Roma people

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/u966v/distribution_of_the_roma_people_in_europe_in_2007/

Hitchhiking waiting times

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/bwf35p/hitchhiking_map_with_the_average_waiting_times_of/

UK

Routes of the Mississippi

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/by1xll/historic_routes_of_the_mississippi_river/

People map of the US

A People Map of the US

A People Map of the US

Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.

And of the UK

A People Map of the UK

A People Map of the UK

Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.

Map of the Heavens by Ignace Gaston Pardies Map of the Month

https://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2012/8/21/mapping-the-heavens-in-1693

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Map Corner Episode 3

In this episode we have calls from

1. Cynthia 35 – who has a question of technicality in relation to counting the countries we have visited
2. Mary Not Contrary – who is interested in Topography
3. Keri Davis – who has an answer to Barb’s question about 6 figure OS references
4. Also in Answers to Questions, we had an early question from Alison about paper maps and teaching geography with paper maps

On the Facebook Page – membership continues to grow

We have had a proliferation of British maps there including stalwarts like

1. How to describe a bread roll,
2. Where people with your surname live http://named.publicprofiler.org/?fbclid=IwAR3VkmWNJXkNWFGXobKIZJvtF8N2CVhcLbSYLmWKa3sQFgxRvl5LVPeyhG4
3. Google autocompletes, might be worth testing this! https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/5j0xyr/english_counties_according_to_google/
4. Who is the best selling recording artist from each county https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/95jmaq/popularbest_selling_artists_by_english_county_of/   (Rutland has NO-ONE!) Wikipedia search Sam Carter http://samcartermusic.co.uk/

Star of the week on Facebook was Neal Sommer who scored a mighty 7/10 on the Guardian quiz to identify cities by their population density. This was a tricky quiz which stumped many people. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/19/quiz-identify-world-cities-density-maps-alone?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard&fbclid=IwAR1W-zSobf8PPfEtg6FFKrf5e_RtatEEYroCdO1KyOPo0uQ_aWfkoP9RyU8

And Roifield posted another devilishly difficult quiz – the Geoguesser https://geoguessr.com/?fbclid=IwAR3Wg6uLPORfClOl8tKGfJ-xDMQt5gSdRxz0-lqGIyqNyp6yG4x7EPz3jUc

On #Mapcorner on Twitter

A few transit maps including Relf with the roman roads of Spain & Portugal http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/the-roman-roads-of-spain-portugal-visualized-as-a-subway-map.html and Kosmo shared a TFL tube style map of London’s road network https://twitter.com/Heidi_LDN/status/1106554832947724289 .

I took an interest in maps relating to fast food outlets – we will work that up for something on the podcast in a future episode.

My favourite map of this week was Alison sharing Simon Keustenmacher’s tweet about the manhole covers in Oklahoma City. They all have a map of the city on them but best of all each one shows you where you are on that map. https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1109101180469370881

And best worst map of the week was shared by Roifield on Twitter and Simone Liuzzi on Facebook – the ordering preferences of countries in Africa https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/907411725313613824

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Catherine Rowan Jones' empbroidered globe https://twitter.com/88ivyfox/status/1095269875856146432 

The anglo saxon map https://twitter.com/ClaireJAstbury/status/1097599995921006595 

Oslo Tube Map from Ben Johnson https://twitter.com/ben1976johnson/status/1094167703076638720  

Information about the Ghost Map, Dr Snow's mapping of cholera GIS analysis of Snow's London cholera map 

Link to Charles Booth's poverty map Charles Booth's London 

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