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A great collection of scans, mainly of the city insets of oil company road maps of Texas, from 1942 to 1970. Some street maps (Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston). A resource for finding the pre-freeway routes of highways through cities.
Territorial evolution of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Step-by-step chronological account of the development of US international and interstate boundaries, the creation of territories, and the settlement of disputes -- not only what boundaries changed, but why, with links to further information. A good example of what Wikipedia does best.
Map shows boundaries of tribes and territories in 1889, with colored outlines and numbers to indicate areas that were ceded back by the tribes to the Federal government following the Civil War.
389 - America's Mean Streak « Strange Maps
A map of the west-southwestward course of the mean center of population for the United States. It's currently headed down I-44; if it continues on the same course, Tulsa will be the population center around 2050.
348 - An Imperial Palimpsest on Poland's Electoral Map « Strange Maps
Party results of 2007 Polish legislative election seem to reflect the boundary between the German and Russian Empires, a line that has been gone since 1917.
337 - Europe Without Germany « Strange Maps
Split between Poland, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Austria, and Czechia. Plus Austria with Italian placenames.
Image:Wasscherscheiden.png - Wikimedia Commons
"Flusseinzugsgebiete und Europaeische Hauptwasserscheiden." A map of watersheds of European rivers, showing the divides between the areas drained by the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and the North, Baltic, Black, Caspian, Adriatic, and Mediterranean Seas. (Via Strange Maps entry on Europe's continental divide.)
xkcd - A Webcomic - Map of the Internet
"This chart shows the IP address space on a plane using a fractal mapping which preserves grouping.... Each of the 256 numbered blocks represents one /8 subnet.... The upper left section shows the blocks sold directly to corporations and governments in the 1990s before the RIRs took over allocation." (I wonder who inherited DEC's Class A allocation.)
Wikipedia: List of public signage typefaces
Links to articles about the fonts used on highway, subway, and railway signs around the world.
330 - From Pickin' Cotton to Pickin' Presidents « Strange Maps
Interesting correlation between a map of 1860 cotton production and county results in the 2008 presidential race.
