Aspies For Freedom

Anyone like or collect maps and or Atlases.

Not only do I collect them, but I make them for a living.  I use GIS and the GPS system extensively.

Tim

Wow! how do you get in to that. I think that would be my dream job. As a kid I used to draw real city maps for fun.

I really like reading maps, though I don't collect them per se (I do have a few world atlases though). When I was younger, I used to ball up a piece of paper, undue it, and then make maps in the "mountains" and "valleys" I made. It was pretty fun, tracing routes through mountain passes and everything.

If I knew how to get them, I'd collect maps.  I love them- I just think they're beautiful.  I dream of having a room of my own that I can cover in maps, and I want a world map printed on a sheet for my bedclothes.

Every wall is covered with maps in my room. I always find maps at Borders book store or in little covenant stores such as a gas station.
One time when I went to Seatle I walked around and ffound a whole store with nothiong but maps i spent 7 hours there just looking at maps.
My favorite types of maps are city maps and old maps. I have a Encyclopedia Britannica Word Atlas from 1943 but because of WW2 all the maps and information in it is pre-war 1938. I also have what i think are two copes of a Europe and The Americas from the 1500's (at lest I do not think they are originals)

My mind work like a map and when I read or hear about places and people I go there in my mind. The one tendency that have been evident throughout my 40+ life is to take care of things thrown away and I have taken care of a lot of maps. I especially like maps of the town where I live (Norrköping, Sweden) as I can trace its changes.

Notable is a 3rd edition of Ward, Lock & Co's "Oxford and district" from mid 30ies. Haynes Guide to Yellowstone National Park (35th edition), printed in 1923 (I think).

I don't collect maps but I do find them quite interesting. In my work I often have to create simplified location maps for the publicity I do. Today I did one for Canterbury Library it was difficult to decide which roads to cut out and which to leave in.

There are 106 libraries in Kent and I have only done maps for about 20.

I also get to see maps from the archives sometimes.

TimHomer, my ex was in GIS for years --he really loved it. He had always loved and collected maps, and he was one of those rare people who actually loved his job.

I love maps.. I could study them for hours.  Back when online mapping sites first came out, I would compare two sites' maps of an area I knew (or didn't know), and compare them for differences or errors (they had [still have] lots of errors)

I electronically collect geological maps. The USGS teamed up with Portland State University, (Oregon), to provide information about obtaining geologic maps on the web (currently only in the Northwestern US (this feature is experimental)). The web site is http://geospatial.research.pdx.edu/~bjpd...earch.html . For viewing some maps, you will need the LizardTech map viewer Mr. Sid; that can be obtained by clicking here -- > http://www.lizardtech.com/ and downloading ExpressView.

Geologic maps are quite fun to look at because they are very colorful (especially in mountainous regions, where many geologic units are exposed in a relatively small area, and where many faults cut through rock units.)  

~CGK

It displays those coverage areas on Google Earth.

~CGK

I am a GIS technician for a city government, and I am majoring in geology.  I am a total Google Earth addict.

Tim

I have always like road maps and street atlas's. I find maps in general enjoyable to look at and study, especially old maps. On UK television we have a programme called 'MAP MAN' where this man called Nicolas Craine re-traces historically significant maps. I really like the programme. I would like to learn Cartography but I don't really know where to start.

There is a great chanse to view Sweden from air at eniro.se which is a telephone directory service; maps; aerial views. I'm there from time to time looking at places where I've been and so forth.

Have you ever used ground searching radar in your work? It's such a strange invention.

Tomas