Atlases

Guerrilla Cartography has two atlas series. The large format “An Atlas” series that launched Guerrilla Cartography, and the “Atlas in a Day” series.

The “An Atlas” series is a trilogy of the three basic needs for survival: food, water, shelter. They are printed in a 12” x 12” format in full color, and available in softcover and hardcover.

The “Atlas in a Day” series is more than an atlas—it is an event. With collaborator onsite and online from around the world to create maps and participate in a program of how-to’s and invited speakers. Click the Atlas in a Day button below to read more and see videos of the talks.

The maps are the epitome of guerrilla cartography; their themes being announced at 9pm Pacific Time on a Friday night, giving collaborators 24 hours to imagine, research, and create their maps.

Guerrilla Cartography compiles the submitted maps into a randomly-ordered published pdf by 9pm on the following Saturday, meeting the challenge of creating an atlas in 24 hours. We then take a day or two to refine the layout and add a title page and attributions before printing the atlas for distribution in as a landscape oriented 8.5” x 11” format.

We allow free download of all our atlases and also sell them to support our mission to widely promote the cartographic arts and facilitate an expansion of the art, methods, and thematic scope of cartography, through collaborative projects, hosting theme-based community workshops and symposiums, and mounting public exhibitions.