Frank Jacobs Strange Maps

Readers send in new material daily, and he keeps bumping in to cartography that is delightfully obscure, amazingly beautiful, shockingly partisan, and more. By frank jacobs strange maps: His blog strange maps is the result—a collection that runs the cartographic gamut from extraordinary to bizarre.

Buy by frank jacobs strange maps by frank jacobs (isbn: His maps are so much more than a means of navigation. Here is another example of a map that has the look and feel of “real” topography but is nothing more (or less) than an artist’s vision that has no correspondence to the real world.

He thought his map obsession was a rare affliction until 2006, when he started blogging about strange maps.seventeen million hits and one book later, he’s still looking for next week’s strangest map.

11 x 9.5 256 pages/ paperback author(s): An atlas of cartographic curiosities. Frank jacobs (@frankjacobs) is a journalist, blogger and author.originally from belgium, he currently lives in denmark with his girlfriend hanne. Then there are maps that outline obscure proposals, such as thomas jefferson’s vision for dividing the northwest territory into ten states with names such as polypotamia and assenisipia, fantastic maps, such as a depiction of what the globe might look like if the sea and land were inverted, and even a danish map of nowhere in particular.