Bad Cartography

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

I love a good map, but a bad map, or a just plain silly map, can be hilarious. Terrible Maps is an anonymous online project that has been sharing some truly wacky and ridiculous examples for nearly three years. Here are a few of my favorites, but check out the rest on Facebook.

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2 Responses to Bad Cartography

  1. Sherry Felix says:
    December 20, 2018 at 10:28 am

    I love this post. I used to work as a cartographer using GIS. One of the required books for a college course I took was “How to Lie with Statistics” https://amzn.to/2SWbtQU. Very useful for bad map making.

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  2. the eternal traveller says:
    December 20, 2018 at 2:43 pm

    Very clever! I like the map with no land. 🙂

    Reply

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