Cartophilia...

Cartophilia could be defined as "the love of maps", and obviously as a geographer I would have to say that I have a definite soft spot for them, and also plenty of book shelves full of them too...
Earlier today, spent some Christmas gift tokens on the Onion's OUR DUMB WORLD: Atlas of Planet Earth, and while browsing for a suitable image to add to this blog post, I came across the CARTOPHILIA BLOG.

This has a huge variety of interesting posts on the topic of maps in their various guises - plenty of thought-provoking images and avenues to while away an evening exploring.

Via CARTOPHILIA, I came across the equally fascinating CREATIVE MAPPING blog, which has some great content as well.
For example, here's JEREMY WOOD's work called MAPPING THE WAY, which features an image made up of a large number of separate GPS tracks. This is an activity which geography teachers have completed separately and called it 'geography' rather than 'art' but it shows the possibility for cross over...

Another geographically-related project was one on PERSONAL GEOGRAPHIES. This looks at SHARED JOURNIES, and involved a geography teacher - some very nice images here too. 
Also, if you live in London, a chance to participate in another "PERSONAL" MAPPING PROJECT.

Incidentally, going to the ONION's website shows you their GOOGLE EARTH layer for the OUR DUMB WORLD resource.

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