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This 11-Foot ‘Ribbon Map’ Puts the Whole Mississippi River in Your Pocket

(via Atlas Obscura) Ribbon Map of the Father of Waters – a depiction of the entire Mississippi, from the Gulf

(via Popular Mechanics) There are just so many stars. With around 300 billion stars across the entire Milky Way, making

August 28, 2017August 25, 2017 0 Comments art, maps

(via Digg) Mapmaker Topi Tjukanov grabbed every single road in North America from OpenStreetMap and put together something beautiful.

(via Popular Mechanics) A new map of the ancient Roman empire plots its major roads in a way that makes

(via Amusing Planet) In the 1930s, a small town named Agloe suddenly began appearing on the maps of New York.

(via Atlas Obscura) We know him as a war hero and the first president of the United States, but George Washington

(via Atlas Obscura) These maps would need to be thin enough to be snuck into a boot or coat lining,

(via Atlas Obscura) In the very early years of the Internet, back when it was the secret and very small

(via JSTOR) Humans and wilderness maintain a binary separation. We’re saturated with images of species gone extinct, acres of ancient

(via Great Big Story) When Peter Bellerby couldn’t find the perfect handmade globe for his father’s 80th birthday, he took