August 31, 2007
Strange Maps!
Wonderful Maps!
Some Odd, Curious, and Fanciful maps--
Cartographic Curiosities
More online maps from the Yale Map Collection
Do you map lovers realize there were tons of maps in my last post?
cheap shill
Or are there no map lovers here anymore?
petulant whine
My favorite map, of course:
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I love maps. I do. But i need sleep more than i need to comment on maps. zzzzzz...
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Great post - I've already spent half an hour on that blog... There was a superb exhibition of maps and how they are used at the British Museum a few years back. Good bits: a 1940's map of the south coast of the UK, marked up in German ("bomben sie hier"), various maps of the location of Eden (Iraq, apparently), maps which had ridges and features named by their disgruntled surveyor in such a way that they call the boss names, etc etc. Wonderful.
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Thread 14415 not good enough for you, eh?
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no
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Oh, right.
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Missed this the first time 'round. Thanks Gramma!
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That map image is ridiculous. There's no way a merman is the same size as a sailing ship!
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Maybe it's a toy boat.
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Or that most rare of creatures, the giant merman! I wasn't paying attention in July, quid, soz
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The merman is the same scale as the mermaid, and that's all that really matters. Well, to the merpeople, anyway.
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favorited.
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Quid: But this is the new, improved, and updated version of the Strange Maps site. If I don't have it on the sidebar, I fergets.* We should post this every monkey-month, because I lubs me some maps! *SOME people, like that Nick person, can favorite stuff, but OTHER people, like this GramMa, have so much crap in their Bookmarks they can't find nuttin'!
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Spinning wheel of doom map...
