![]() ![]() the today Greece area was sunk long time ago, looking at the today map it might be possible, some people speculate this area was Atlantida (since this is fantastic story, I can say anything)Ģ. Technically speaking, I believe the map consider some geological assumptions:ġ. The map is very interesting, as a Romanian, I am little bit insulted, but considering other people have issues and like to mock other people history, I do not care. It does make me think of the one example of a certain formerly popular geography videogame that didn’t get made: Where in Middle Earth is Carmen San Diego. Bird doesn’t describe his method, which is too bad, but probably expected since this is a project borne of geekery more than scholarship. ![]() ![]() Visually, the interesting thing about the map is how Bird overlaid Middle Earth atop present-day Europe. In this map, The Shire is in southwest England, the Gray Havens in Ireland, Helm’s Deep near Basel, Edoras in Bavaria, and Mordor is (perhaps appropriately) in Transylvania. Taking his charge from Tolkien’s suggestion that Middle Earth is a part of our own earth, but from a previous era, Prof. And one of my favorites from the site is this diagram of the Eisenhower Interstate System.Īnyhow, recently Strange Maps covered a UCLA geography professor’s attempt to map the geographic location of Middle Earth. On the topic of subways, here’s a literal translation of the Stockholm subway map that’s just as curious as the invented ones of greater web fame. Strange Maps covers real cartographic oddities, both old and new, and some of them are real gems of visual communication. They’re cute and clever but more than a little gimmicky. Thanks largely to Boing Boing, there’s been a running meme lately of subway map mashups, like this one of a hypothetical LA subway mapped to the London Tube or this anagram subway map of Toronto. It’s really exactly the kind of site blogs seem to promise, regular musings on a subject so specific or arcane that another medium couldn’t support regular publication. Do you read Strange Maps? You should, if you’re at all a map geek. ![]()
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