"To truly use the country as its own map, it turns out, involves weaving discomfiting images of the country directly into the fabric of the map. The result is not a tidy diagram of the world abstracted onto a blank slab—as nearly all maps since Mesopotamia have been—but rather a patchwork that chronicles, among many other things, the troubling process by which the map was composed."
I cannot stress enough how much I love the article from which this quote came. It's called The Grand Map, and it's by Avi Steinberg. The article includes references to Lewis Carroll, Borges, Google Maps, and you should go read it now! Love maps as much as I do! If you dare...
photos colllected by Jon Rafman from Google Maps
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