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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. Here’s a good resource for you geogeeks. Use if you’re searching for London or Londinium.

Adventures in Mapping John Nelson’s blog with insightful cartography tips, amazing maps, links to his video tutorials. Such talent.

Alan has a book recommendation. Alan, what did you like about it?

Mappa Mundi Next time you’re in Venice, check out the Mappa Mundi in the Library of Saint Marks, by Fra Mauro in 1459. It’s a portolan chart with the orientation of South at the top.

Rising Cost of the Oil Industry’s Slow Death Another great ProPublica story. A failure of regulation.

“money set aside for this cleanup work in the 15 states accounting for nearly all the nation’s oil and gas production covers less than 2% of the projected cost”.

“We have allowed companies intentionally to do this,” said Megan Milliken Biven, who reviewed the data and is a former program analyst for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, a federal regulator of offshore oil rigs, and founder of True Transition, a nonprofit that advocates for oil field workers. “It is the inevitable consequence of an entire regulatory program that is more red carpet than red tape.”

Motherfuckers.

Rewilding

Jaguars in the United States One thing that has gotten some attention in mainstream media, but nowhere near enough, is the impact on wildlife corridors of the border wall.