Map Crazy

Here's one for graphical information/mapping fetishists, like me, Strange Maps.

The one on the top as I post this is, "131 - US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs."

I'm also a big fan of the terrifying and Inconvenient "117 - Europe’s Climate in 2071" as well as the revelatory "124 - Jesus In India: A Road Map of His Lost Years."

Hard to top the hand drawn "98 - ‘On the Road’ Map: Kerouac Traces His Trip" (hitchhiking back and forth across America in those halcyon post-war years of 1947-48) but maybe Munchkinland and its neighbors will do the trick for you with "69 - Not Kansas, But Just As Rectangular: The Land of Oz."

There's a zoo hidden in the London Underground map ("119 - All Elephant and No Castle: a Secret Bestiary of the London Tube Map") and a woman who's certainly more into maps than you or I ("126 - Hannover On Her Mind - and On Her Back"). And illuminating information, like why our interstate highway numbering system actually works ("75 - A Diagram of the Eisenhower Interstate System"), as well as why America cannot be a world empire in simple population terms ("96 - A Cartogram of the World’s Population"), the latter of which is also an argument for open border immigration -- if we want to kick anybody's ass.

As some parting cartography, here's two representations of where Nettertainment hails from daily.

One is more virtual although not necessarily more virtuous: "118 - Online Communities Map (Not For Navigation)." We're somewhere in the Southwest corner, map detail not available.

The other...well...would anyone really be surprised?