Interesting maps, post your favourites...

[FrankCrank]

And then..
Johnston's Scool Physical Atlas c1879

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This is in much better condition than the more morern (!?) Star Atlas

Got any that say 'here be dragons'

 

[srw]

Got any that say 'here be dragons'

According to Mike Parker's book "Map Addict", which I've just reread, there never was a (real) map that said "here be dragons".

 

[srw]

I can't be bothered starting a boring map thread so I'll put this here.

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Officially the dullest km square in the OS 1:50000 landranger series

No! That's full of thrills. It's got a wood and a stream, as well as a name.

Here's a better selection: http://www.mapfodder.com/boringgridsquares.html

Middle of the third row (Lincolnshire, one foot of a pylon) is the most celebrated, but I rather like the one immediately above it.

 

[Tribansman]

 

[Beebo]

Urban legend says that The Mull of Kintyre rule was used by the British Board of Film Classification to judge whether a male appendage was allowed to be seen on screen.
If the angle of dangle was higher than that it was banned.

 

[swee'pea99]

The obvious one is the Gall Peters, which looks to correct the inherent northern bias of the traditional Mercator map, in which "South America is made to look about the same size as Europe, when in fact it is almost twice as large, and Greenland looks roughly the size of Africa when it is actually about 14 times smaller. In this version, land maps are shown 'at their true size' - tho' how that tallies with the OP's Africa map I'm not at all sure.

And of course there's also the upside-down map:

North is only 'at the top' because we've decided that's how we'd like to see it.

 

[slowmotion]

 

[randynewmanscat]

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[randynewmanscat]

Its possibly a blessing that this won't open to full res.

 

[Oldhippy]

I have a friend who makes maps to order of people's local area. He seems to be ticking along nicely as a little business.

 

[PeteXXX]

I've dug a few more out from my book shelves..

 

[PeteXXX]

And....

 

[PeteXXX]

Finally, for today, from 1894 & 1900

 

[MontyVeda]

Do OS still do the green Pathfinder maps?

I was a little disappointed with the coverage of the Lancaster & Morecambe one...

 

[randynewmanscat]

Trafford Park for visitors with English as a foreign language.

Bit before the Trafford Centre I think