For you map collectors, here is a list of new maps and books that might interest you:

Kaufmann, Obi.  The California field atlas.  1 atlas (608 pages), scales differ.  Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday, pub. 2017.  ISBN: 9781597144025

Mad Maps.  Scenic road trips of Northern California: Avenue of the Giants, the Lost Coast, Napa & Sonoma, Mount Hamilton, Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey & Carmel.  1 map, scale ca. 1:600,000.  San Francisco, Calif.: Mad Maps, pub. 2016.  ISBN: 9781933911397

National Geographic Maps.  Mojave National Preserve, California.  1 map, scale 1:125,000.  Evergreen, Colo.: National Geographic Maps, Trails Illustrated topographic map 256, pub. 2016.  ISBN: 9781566953832

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If you like to make stuff, maybe making a laser cut Dymaxion Globe is something you would like to do?  Click below to read the article and download the needed files for your laser cutter … you have one right?

A funny one from xkcd.com:

If you go to the site and hover over the map, a popup will tell you the actual top search word used in every state … except Florida!

Looking for a unique map gift?  How about a textile map from this Wisconsin textile artist?  Check it out!

For the past several centuries, cartographers have tried to find different ways to portray the globe on a two-dimensional map. Many of these attempts, including the Mercator projection, distort the true size of different countries and regions. As a result, many of us have false perceptions about the proportional size of different geographical areas.

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Looking for unusual maps?  Check out this website that makes available to the public a collection of more than 800 examples of persuasive cartography, maps intended primarily to influence opinions or beliefs – to send a message – rather than to communicate geographic information.  You can search for maps by subject and there are also links to download the high resolution image of each map.