{"id":80,"date":"2008-01-30T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2008-01-30T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T16:30:34","slug":"found-a-terrific-map-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/found-a-terrific-map-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Found a terrific map site"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Souther<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

So, imagine my delight when on Amazon Daily, in a bit of Neil Gaiman’s blog there was a link to Strange Maps<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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