Hello map fans! We're two leading cartographers who chat about maps: historic, contemporary, and everything in between! Join us to learn more about maps and have some fun along the way. To learn more about us, see urherepodcast.com.
Three fantastically different ways maps are used to persuade you to spend your money.
12 May 2021
Three Food Maps
Want to talk about food and maps? This is the episode for you! We explore some maps that are weird, informative, and beautiful!
5 May 2021
Three Video Game Maps
Game maps have some of the coolest cartographic details around and the three we talk about today are no exception!
28 Apr 2021
Three Natural Resources Maps
Rivers, mines, and ice: all natural resources that are mapped in unique and wonderful ways and thoroughly analyzed in this episode.
21 Apr 2021
Three Garden Maps
Two old garden maps and one new one provide fodder for cartographic discussion including the use of texture, generalization, balance, and lots and lots of dotted lines.
14 Apr 2021
Three More Historic Maps
These three amazingly beautiful and useful maps from around the world widen our cartographic experience, show us new ways to depict geography, and teach us that varying traditions of map making all had one thing in common: they help us understand our world.
7 Apr 2021
Three Pop Culture Maps
We love that maps make their way into so many aspects of our lives and we especially love when they find their way into our favorite books, TV shows, and movies! A Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter all feature some really amazing new old-looking maps that add to that thrill of becoming immersed in their fantastical worlds.
31 Mar 2021
Three Tourist Maps
Tourist maps might seem to have changed a lot between the 13th century and the 21st century, and indeed they have, but we also notice similarities such as the use of pictorial representations of salient landmarks and the editing out of unnecessary clutter.
24 Mar 2021
Three Political Maps and Ethics
In this episode, three political maps are used as launching points for discussions around modern-day ethics in map making.
17 Mar 2021
Three Projections
Hello map fans! In this episode we pick apart three very interesting map projections, one that everyone has either already heard of or seen, and two that are much newer. But not before quickly defining what a projection is in the first place.
10 Mar 2021
Three Historic Maps
*We use two words in this podcast that we now regret and are in the process of editing the episode accordingly and will update soon. Our apologies.
Humans have always needed to know what's around us and need to share that information with others. We talk about the Babylonian Map of the World, the Hereford Mappa Mundi, and the Catawba Deerskin Map.
6 Mar 2021
Welcome to Urhere
Welcome to urhere, a podcast all about maps for all the map fans out there! We're Gretchen Peterson and Vanessa Knoppke-Wetzel, find out a little bit about us and what this podcast is all about.
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