Last week, Google Maps took an entire town away. Wiped it off the map. D... ...sometimes did that so they’d know if later maps were copied from theirs. Apparently the one with... ...opied from Socony’s).Agloe survived on road maps by Esso and Exxon into the late 20...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/01/Agloe-New-York-The-Town-That-Never-Was/Texas was once an independent nation. After the United States initially rejected our generous offer of admission into the union, we considered remaining independent permanently. Many of us considered expanding westward,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Map-Areas-within-a-Texas-Length-Distance-from-Texas/Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves, who brought us... ...ngerbread Galleries, now have created a series of maps of places all over the world made of food!In this... ...ries and continents and turned them into physical maps . While we know that tomatoes originally came from... ...America, Italy has become the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/12/Food-Maps-of-the-World/New York and Los Angeles? They have to go. Take out a few monuments in Washington. Flatten Chicago if you have time. Then you're done, as far as our new overlords are concerned.Alaska and Hawaii? Good news: to the aliens...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/02/28/A-Map-of-the-United-States-as-Seen-by-Invading-Aliens/Redditor DMan9797 offers this novel map. It divides the entire world (with the exception of Antarctica) into regions of equal population. Each section represents 100 million people. You can view a larger version here.Loo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/02/20/The-World-Divided-into-Regions-of-100000000-People-Each/Almost every map you see is oriented with north at... ...d out why north was chosen as “up” on maps . It wasn’t always that way. Ancient maps were oriented in various directions. So how was n... ...a natural one. Some of the very earliest Egyptian maps show t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/02/18/How-North-Became-the-Top-of-the-Map/Bill Passman is a world-wide backpacker. One day, while sitting in a bar in Honduras, he spotted a woman with a world map outline tattoo. She told him that she planned to add a red dot in every nation that she visited.Pa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/02/03/World-Traveler-Gets-a-Fill-in-Tattoo-of-Every-Nation-Hes-Visited/This is a screenshot from Sightsmap, a new heat ma... ..., a new heat map made by Google. It merges Google Maps with Panoramio, Google's photo hosting site with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/16/An-Interactive-Map-of-the-Most-Photographed-Places-on-Earth/The Global Data Chandelier is a permanent and functional art installation at the new headquarters of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. It’s the brainchild of several design firm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/14/Its-a-Chandelier-and-an-Interactive-Map/This cool illustration from a 1921 issue of Scientific American uses a human head to demonstrate how map projections distort the sizes and shapes of landmasses. The upper left drawing shows a globe, which is why the head...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/07/How-Map-Projections-Distort-Landmasses/
