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Keeping the art of Cartography alive.
Cool Owl was created in 2010 to sell map products online and soon after started to publish under the registered brand “Cool Owl Maps”. They saw a need to keep the art of cartography alive because too many map companies had folded. Their mission is simple...

A map collection worth an estimated $100m is donated to the University of Southern Maine.  Read more here.
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Two interesting articles were published recently highlighting the importance of paper and digital maps.  Outside magazine described well the benefit of large format paper atlases, an old stalwart for planning trips, traveling, and exploring.  Ian Frazier...

IMIA sponsor and member, National Geographic, is featured in this month’s issue of Dirt Rag Mountain Bike Magazine.  “The Power of Paper Maps” article in Issue #202’s Access Column describes how paper maps provide a robust tool for discovering and exploring...