I was watching a documentary on Captain Cook the other day and marvelled at his ability to accurately map New Zealand and Australia from his ship. The you see the dutch effort which has Australia looking like a squashed Greenland.

Maps are cool.

There is a good map store on Market St in San Francisco and a pretty good one Pitt St Sydney, near Bathurst I think.

I bought the Citizen Agency guys a map as a gift but I don't think they liked it.
 

I love maps too. They are my second favourite thing.

In two weeks I will be starting a now job as a draftsperson and will among other things be doing a bit of Cartography.

Wow, cool. Modern Day cartography. Is it extreme local (surveying) or actual land and topos?

C'mon Ruski, this would be the place to share your masterpieces

Bit of both Mick.

Hi all!  I came here to Tangler because of the online browser game Weewar.  I check in on some of these other groups, General & Music, every now and then.  If you don't know what Weewar is, then you should check it out.  Maps are the most interesting aspect of it to me.  They consist of hexagons (hex) that indicate different types of terrain and bases.  There was even a map editor that the developers let some of us use.  It's not available to anyone currently, as they are working on redesigning it.  I made three maps total, but mine were not like anyone else's.  I recreated maps of North America, South America, and the Earth.  Everyone else's maps are seemingly totally made up, that is, not based on any real map.

heh, I know of Weewar because of Tangler 

I used to love maps too (can't say I'm so interested in them nowadays - possible because I used to work in GIS).

Not quite maps but I remember my brother had a book of house diagrams and I used to love to imagine what it would be like to live in them.  I guess I've always liked diagramatical representations and so that's why maps would appeal to me.
 

Modern day mapping is superb even though they have satellites. Google earth is amazingly detailled.

I too have always been fascinated with floor plans, houses especially, but also plenty of other building types.  I do computer aided drafting (CAD) at a consulting engineering firm.  Our big client/project is a hospital.

I never thought of it that way, "diagramatical representations", as what I like.

Specifically, map-wise, I'm also interested in old maps.  Especially wrong ones.   I have to find a book, or even a good website on the subject.
 

I know of weewar cos of Tangler too!

Just as addicted to both
 

I have the original of this one in a very safe place....

^ See if you can spot the clue which gives away roughly when (or at least before a certain date corresponding to a significant event) that it was printed.

I started to make the one below to compare to this ... radar

... to answer the "I wonder if this rain is falling in the Wivenhoe catchment?" question that comes up all the time.

(The embankment is where the blue line crosses the red line)

I know I should know the answer to the first map, but I can't remember

No, don't tell me
 

Map puzzles. Super geeky cool

Found this: Oil map of the world:

Link

I expected the us and russia to be bigger than that.

Me too honestly

when i was in Bath a few years back i got dragged to some manor that labelled itself the American Museum - had some link to the civil war etc and they had a tapestry/quilt  display out the back. Now as much as i love to look at old quilts (that is sarcasm but i did give them a glance) i wandered through to the back and in this dark little room was a collection of really old maps. Apparently the guy who owned the place a long time ago collected maps of the world, maps of this and that from all eras from all over the place. It was completely unexpected and quite enjoyable (only because it gave me a respite from looking at fabric). I also left with a sneaking suspicion that some crafty (ha!) old lady had set that combo up so that the old men had something to look at and didn't nag their wives to get the hell out.

Those old maps would have been something to look at though!

I love maps.

I have atlases everywhere. My favourites are the Times Atlas of World History: which tells world history (as you might have guessed -"it does what it says on the tin") using maps that show how populations, political supremecies, borders and names change. And my Maps of the Nineteenth Century which I love for it's "So close to us in time and yet so different" quality. Australia for example is broken down into various maps depicting NSW, VIC, Van Diemans Land and the Swan River Colony of Western Australia and most of it is blank despite all the detailed mapping of the coast. All done in water coulour.

I also have detailed atlas maps of the moon that are endlessly fascinating to me for absolutely no rational reason I can fathom.
 

I collect salt and pepper shakers......you need no reasons

I collect used ink cartridges.

I collect pebbles.

Used to collect shells, coins, and feathers. Yes, discarded bird feathers
 

I like feathers. Hehehehehe.

Oldest accurate road-map of England:

 circa 1360

His computer must have been broken.

Hock heck.

I like this one, it has a certain charm about it

Since moving to sydney I've started a collection of maps of the city.....no specific reason, but they just seem to accumulate in my bag....same with those 'tourist-y travel guides, and 'what to see and do' things. And I don't even read most of them! I just pick them up and put them in my bag without thinking.....

This is a closeup of part of my favourite map, a Coastal Walkers Association hand-drawn hiking map of the Budawangs ranges and Morton National Park between Braidwood and Nowra in southern NSW. I've been bushwalking there since I was in my early teens and can just about navigate most common routes with my eyes closed. But the detail, penmanship and hand-drawn lettering in this map are superb and unique.

I have a copy of it framed and hanging at home, and it's about 2m by 1m - kinda large but beautiful. I sketch out each route plan on the glass with a whiteboard marker so my wife knows where to send the rescue party if I don't come home on time.

That is lovely... how old is it?

I like the idea of sketching out where you're going

It is very well done.

Morgan K. I was fanatical about finding maps of Sydney when I got here a few months ago. More than a few times I found myself utterly lost in the CBD and wishing I knew not only where I was but where I was in relation to places that I was familar with.

GoogleMaps on my phone, walking and catching public transport have been how I've become familiar with inner-Sydney. The suburbs I'm still largely ignorant of in terms of location but I'm working on it.

I don't use maps in Sydney.... I just keep getting lost and found

hahaha Ali - me too!! public transport is how I know where I am!! Now I've sort of worked out the CBD area, and i know the suburbs on the train lines that i catch, and aroun where I live, but apart from that I'm still learning

It's ok.... by the time you learn it, they'll change it again, and you'll be lost all over again

I used to know the city like the back of my hand!

HAHAHAHAHAHA

that's great comfort thanks Dek

I've recently purchased a bike so I shall be doing some cycle exploration of my local area soon.

Here are some you can wear, if you're the perpetually lost kind:

...useful...:p