So many awesome maps out there on the internet, so little time to link to them all. Don’t worry, cartography nerds – we’re doing our best. And to make up for lost time, here’s two awesome maps for this week.
The first is a spectacular view of the near universe – everything within 380 million light years. Spotted over at Ars Technica this morning, it was produced by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and taken by Micron All-Sky Survey Redshift Survey. Click below for a massive high res image.
The second was discovered in a Reddit thread – What would Africa look like if it had never been colonised. It’s an example of an upside-down map – relatively unusual but not uncommon – put together by Arabic scholars in the mid-19th century.
Want to know more about ‘South Up’ maps? Click here.