Portolan Issue #121 has just been published and is now available on this website to members. Check out the Table of Contents here.

The video of the WMS member meeting on December 4, 2024 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Fielding Graduate University .  The title of the presentation is "Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Discussion."

The video of the WMS member meeting on November 7, 2024 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Matthew Edney, University of Southern Maine.  The title of the presentation is "What's Different about Map Makers in the Nineteenth Century, and therefore in Volume Five of The History of Cartography?"

The video of the WMS member meeting on October 10, 2024 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Dr. Catherine Gibson, University of Tartu, Estonia.  The title of the presentation is "Mapmakers in Action - Drawing Borders in the Baltic, 1919-1920."

Portolan Issue #120 has just been published and is now available on this website to members. Check out the Table of Contents here.

The video of the WMS member meeting on June 20, 2024 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Heiko Mühr, University of California Berkeley.  The title of the presentation is "Mapping German Americans and Their Communities: Heinz Klose and His 1974 Ethnographic Atlas."

The video of the WMS member meeting on April 11, 2024 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Leonid Chekin, World Bank Group. The title of the presentation is "Svalbard, Paradise and Beyond: The Arctic  Islands on Medieval and Early Modern Maps."

Portolan Issue #119 has just been published and is now available on this website to members. Check out the Table of Contents here. 

The video of the WMS member meeting on March 14, 2024 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Gary Spaid, Past President of the Road Map Collectors Association. The title of the presentation is "Why We Collect Road Maps."

The video of the WMS member meeting on January 18, 2024 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was J. C. McElveen, Vice Chair of the Philip Lee Phillips Map Society. The title of the presentation is "Herman Moll and John Senex: Mapping North America in the Early 18th Century (from the British Point of View)."