Found a terrific map site
I love maps. It all started when I was a child and had a puzzle of the United States. Each piece was a state and the pieces had the state capitals on them and were colored some nice pastels. I used to put that puzzle together over and over and over. When I got to school the maps had the states different colors but the rest was the same.
On my first, and so far only, trip to Australia and New Zealand, I saw a map of the world with the southern hemisphere to the top of the map. It looked so weird to me but then thinking about it; why is north always to the top? Usually it’s a consensus thing a group decision on what’s important. But if you live in the southern hemisphere then your own surroundings are what’s important so that should be predominant — shouldn’t it?
So, imagine my delight when on Amazon Daily, in a bit of Neil Gaiman’s blog there was a link to Strange Maps. It’s a blog that deals with maps of all kinds: historic, funny, disease spreads, religious districts, medieval, — just about everything. I could spend even more time there than I did today but thought a link here might let more map lovers know about this interesting, quirky site.