Friday 20 July, 2007
Maps
I've been doing some research on maps and have found lots of fantastic links I thought I would share with map lovers. Cute hand-drawn maps.A Cool blog with links to map sites. Artist Ami Sioux has made a good book of maps. Here's an article on maps from the Guardian. And another article from Wired on how Google maps are changing the way we see things. Here's an alternate-history map, imagining how Manhattan might have looked had the Nazis conquered it in World War II And Fools World Map
If you like hand embroidered maps go here. Boing Boing links to a map of the online universe. And you can go here and here and here and here.
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