Star Wars Cartography

Artist Andrew DeGraff has mapped out the locations and travels of the original Star Wars trilogy. Above is A New Hope and /film has the other two maps. DeGraff will reveal more maps at his upcoming Gallery 1988 show. Can't wait! (h/t via Noah Love)

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Super Mario Game of Thrones

Westeros as a Super Mario map. Bowser is coming.
(Via Geek-Art, couldn't track the source. Anybody know?)

Update: Source found: Reddit's Titan413 as tracked by Buzzfeed's @MildlyAmused)

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Head North Through Wonderland, Then It's Straight On To Narnia

I had no idea how close Whoville is to Mordor. It's amazing that Sauron didn't destroy the Who's, what with all the noise from their Jingjinglers, Floofloobers, and Blumbloopas. (The Fantasy World Map from Dan Meth)

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Sailing The Sea Of Memes

Topographical Map Of Marge Simpson

Take Your Stinking Maps Off Me, You Damned Dirty Ape!

Sailing The Sea Of Memes

This is but a small sampling of the awesome, updated Map of Online Communities by xkcd. The first one was in 2008 and you can see how much the land of MySpace has shrunk in two years. I also enjoyed Kanye's Island of Sadness and the Hastag Games Whose Popularity Confuses and Depresses You. Bonus: Neatorama got its own island! (Thanks to @benelling for the heads up)

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Take Your Stinking Maps Off Me, You Damned Dirty Ape!

Topographical Map Of Marge Simpson

This example of cartozoology (the detection of living creatures in maps) is by Micky Hulse:" I've always thought parts of Europe resembled a profile view of Marge... So, here ya go." Hmm, she kinda looks like Mr. Burns. (Link via Strange Maps)

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Take Your Stinking Maps Off Me, You Damned Dirty Ape!

You maniacs, Google Earth! You mapped it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell! Plant of the Apes? Is there anything they won't map? (Hell in a Handbasket via The Zeray Gazette)

Update: The image comes from Brook Boley as an entry into the Gizmodo photoshop contest 50 of the Most Insane Things Never Seen on Google Street View

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Google Earth Guys
The Google Street View guys are back from taking pictures of every street in the world. Now to photograph the entire planet from every angle at every latitude. No problem. (Link via Dan Meth)

Here is the original, to get you up to speed.




Google Street View Guys
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NYC Sitcom Map: 30 Rock Via Taxi

Last time I was in New York we walked from Seinfeld down through the Jefferson's, Sex In The City, I Love Lucy, Diff'rent Strokes and the Odd Couple, ending up at 30 Rock. We then took the subway to the Cosby Show and walked back over the Brooklyn Bridge to Night Court and Spin City.

From this Dan Meth's sitcom map I'm sure I will not be seeing All In The Family, Dear John or King of Queens, which are three shows that don't grace my TV either. What a coincidence.

(Link: Dan Meth's Pop-Cultural Charts via Nick McGlynn)

Update: Dan has followed this up with a USA Sitcom Map

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A map of online communities (click on the map for a larger version) and social networking from the web comic xkcd. It's from last year (so of course I'm only seeing it now) and already some of the lands should be resized (up Facebook, down MySpace) and a new island of lolcats is probably required, but other than that its incredibly detailed and funny.

Strange Maps, where I origianlly came across this clever piece of cartography, has a version with a slew of comments explaining some of the more obscure terrirtories. And I'm off to sail the Sea of Memes on my way to the Ocean of Subculture.