O jornal

Notas de campo da prancha.

Despachos sobre método cartográfico, a política da linha e a arte de argumentar uma tese em mapas. Escritos abertamente, citáveis e — como tudo aqui — herdeiros da escola editorial continental.

The school

The warm ground: inheriting a tradition without copying it

Sepia grounds, interpretive zones, the hand-drawn line — what the European editorial school understood about maps as argument, and how Gesta Carta makes that inheritance its own.

2026-07-01 · 5 min

The line

Mapping Crimea honestly: de-facto, de-jure, and the cost of choosing

A contested border is a decision, not a fact — and disambiguation modes let a single map document hold both claims without quietly hiding either one.

2026-06-28 · 4 min

Method

Why the renderer is deterministic — and why that matters

Same document, same plate, to the pixel — because a map that cannot be reproduced cannot be cited, and reproducibility is what a map owes the reader who wants to check it.

2026-06-24 · 4 min