On Canada Day, Nick Ross drew a map of Canada to help Americans out:
I drew a map of Canada to help Americans out. HAPPY CANADA DAY pic.twitter.com/nyPHDEr3jx
— Nick Ross (@NickBossRoss) July 1, 2016
On the Fourth of July, Nick Ross drew a map of the U.S. to help Canadians out:
I drew a map of America to help Canadians out. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! pic.twitter.com/1l5M6Rq9QR
— Nick Ross (@NickBossRoss) July 4, 2016
Today’s xkcd is a flowchart for figuring out the age of an undated world map. Look carefully.
On 1 April 1977, the Guardian published something that has become known as one of the finest April Fool’s gags in history: a seven-page supplement about the fictional, “semi-colonial” island of San Serriffe, complete with a map (at right) full of typographic puns and gags. The Guardian has a page on the gag and has reprinted a couple of the articles here and here; the Museum of Hoaxes has scans of the entire supplement.
The Onion, two years ago: “Unable to picture where in the Grand Realm the destroyed fortress was in relation to the dreaded desert of Quiltar, a fully grown adult man referred to the map on the opening pages of the fantasy novel The Tower Of Astalon Friday to determine the location of the ruined castle of Arnoth, accounts confirmed.” [via]
Today’s xkcd is a map of the United Sta—wait … what has Randall done? My eyes … they’re bleeding.
“Simplified City Map,” a cartoon by John Atkinson. [via]
Without question, the most popular post on The Map Room so far this week—by two orders of magnitude—was this post pointing to Chaz Hutton’s “A Map of Every City.” Hutton’s map went kind of viral, and not just here. He’s since announced that a print of the map will be available at some point; he’s also written a post on Medium explaining some of the background behind the map.
The Only Fantasy World Map You’ll Ever Need by Jake Manley isn’t the first map of its kind that I’ve seen (see also the map in Diana Wynne Jones’s Tough Guide to Fantasyland); still, it’s clear that fantasy maps are a proven vehicle to satirize and critique the genre. (And be satirized and critiqued.) [John Scalzi]
The Onion’s take on the Apple Maps thing totally steals the punchline from Christopher Rowe’s fantastic 2006 short story, “Another Word for Map Is Faith,” which you can listen to here (previously).
