John Howe riffs on maps

[truepenny]

I have a Thing about maps, as I may have mentioned before. It's the obverse of my even greater Thing about labyrinths and mazes. And it's all over The Project, which has me thinking hard about maps and labyrinths and maps OF labyrinths and ... Anyway, to my great and abiding delight, John Howe is also thinking about maps:

Ptolomey was only one-third out when he calculated the circumference of the earth, just enough to let Columbus, 1500 years later, step ashore in the Caribbean the SAME day he had planned on reaching Xipangu, only to have America named after someone else because an obscure mapmaker in the Vosges made an executive decision...

Think about it next time you can't re-fold that ****ed road map the right way...