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Old 01-15-2010, 06:39 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I don't mean to diss the original post, so think of this more as a theme enhancement:



“For the past three years, Frank Jacobs’s blog Strange Maps has been an increasingly wonderful trove of creative cartography.
All of the works cataloged in
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities
find a unique way to tweak the generic map…
Jacobs’s book is filled with cartographic exercises that range from the historical, like a map of Thomas Jefferson’s proposal for
naming new states in the Northwest territories, to the scientific, like a pie chart of which countries’ coastlines offer direct access to Antarctica.
And then there are the jokes, like the oft-forwarded map of North America divided between the United States of Canada in the north and Jesusland in the south.”
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