Saturday morning when I was doing my IP analysis I discovered that people were visiting my website from a document hosted on Iconoculture’s website. I decided to contact them about what the document was. Monday I received a reply and found out that they are a consumer trends research company who took interest in my maps. Quite cool!

When I worked at the AAG I always looked forward to receiving mail and magazines from the Geospatial Industry trade magazine called “Directions Magazine.” Last month I contacted the magazine after the story was published, and today I am featured in the “Off the beaten path” section of the newsletter. To those visiting from the listing, I welcome you. Please feel free to look around my website, and if you like what you see, the best compliment you can give me is obtaining the one that you can hang on your wall.

David Montgomery’s story about me was syndicated in the Philadelphia Inquirer today.

To those visiting from Philadelphia, I welcome you and your comments. If you are interested in obtaining a map of Philadelphia, I currently have Philly Quilt #1 and Philly Quilt #2 available for purchase. I should have the two mandalas available shortly.

My most recent cartographic activities (below) involve using a php script to randomly display details of the maps I made last year. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making these creations!

David Montgomery’s Here Be Dragons was syndicated this morning in Fort Wayne, Indiana’s The Journal Gazette as “On the map, off the wall – Shadow blogger manipulates geographic images.”

Of note is that it’s been slightly edited like the rest of syndicated stories and like the original there are hyperlinks in the on-line version. Yet, while the original contained links to all of the maps that were mentioned in the story, this syndicated version contains only two links: one to my website and the other to the Secret Service!

The Washington Post story by David Montgomery “Here Be Dragons” has been syndicated.

It was on the front page of life/arts/style section in the Waterloo, Ontario’s “The Record” this morning as “When Maps meet Art” (you can download the pdf here). It was also a feature story in yesterday’s Sunday edition of Southern Oregon’s “Mail Tribune” as “Terra Incognita” and Thursday’s “Canton Repository” as the original title.

Of note is how much content is changed and/or lost as other news editors slim down the story to make it suitable for publication. I’m sad to see how the Dr. Livingstone, I presume reference has been removed. It’s also quite interesting to see how the various media outlets use the maps I supplied the Washington Post.