The Map Room

One more from inflight correction, whose author would like to see a map of what he calls “personal globalization”:

Not what’s been imported around you, though that’s interesting, but what is your world via the internet? Mine covers the broad English-speaking world, with a hefty helping of Japan and Korea.

How does the map shift as you consider the general population of different countries? How does it shift between major cities, and between cities and rural areas? How does the map shift as you filter for languages — like look at what Koreans browse, then filter between those with different language skills.

I don’t know what I can add, but I’ll mention it here for your edification. Discuss. (Thanks, Huw.)

The Subway Page has a simply monstrous list of links to maps of various subway, light rail and commuter rail systems around the world. Some official, some homemade, many of places less well known. If the London Underground can have dozens of sites, here’s one for the rest of them. (via inflight correction)

Not that I can read a word on the page, but these maps of Taiwanese railways appear to date from 1925 to 1947 (via inflight correction).

Jeff Patterson writes in to point to a map of the planet Mongo (187 KB JPEG). You pathetic earthling.

The History of Maps, a course reading from Geography 101 at California State University, Northridge (via muxway).

Antique Maps of Iceland:

All antique maps of Iceland (older than 1900) that are in the collection of the National and University Library of Iceland have been converted to a digital format and are accessible here. The library does not have all maps of Iceland before this date but would like to be able to display them all. … A short historical description in Icelandic and English is available for every map.

The maps are available in multiple resolutions and the later ones are quite detailed, at the level of navigational charts. Neat stuff, via Plep of course.