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222 nearly all made Europe too big: Thomas F. Saarinen, Michael Parton, and Roy Billberg, “Relative Size of Continents on World Sketch Maps,” Cartographica 33, no. 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 37–48.
222 “wet, ragged long winter underwear”: “Arno Peters and His New Geography,” American Cartographer 12 (1985), pp. 103–111.
223 West Lancashire town of Argleton: Rebecca Lefort, “Mystery of Argleton, the ‘Google’ Town That Only Exists Online,” The Daily Telegraph, Oct. 31, 2009.
224 Goblu and Beatosu, Ohio: Mark Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), p. 50.
227 a report on Page’s private life: “Google Executive,” National Legal and Policy Center, Jun. 30, 2008, www.nlpc.org/pdfs/googleexecutive.pdf.
227 “we live in”: John Sellers, “Wayne Coyne Confirms Google Street View Sighting,” True/Slant, Feb. 5, 2010, http://trueslant.com/johnsellers/2010/02/05/wayne-coyne-flaming-lips-confirms-google-street-view-sighting/.
227 “geoslavery”: Jerome Dobson and Peter Fisher, “Geoslavery,” IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 22, no. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 47–52.
229 thousands of amateur mappers: Amy Davidson, “A Map of Thousands,” The New Yorker,“Close Read” blog, Feb. 24, 2010, www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2010/02/a-map-of-thousands.html.
229 “Many thanks”: Google Groups, “CrisisMappers,” Feb. 4, 2010, http:// groups.google.com/group/crisismappers/msg/54a9be63091dbab9.
232 an unnamed Swedish couple: “Swedish Tourists Miss Island Due to GPS Typo,” Seattle Times, July 28, 2009.
233 “Society is geared”: Alex Hutchinson, “Global Impositioning Systems,” The Walrus, Nov. 2009, pp. 67–71.
234 sales collapsed by 83 percent: Richard Melcher, “Dusting Off the Britannica,” BusinessWeek, Oct. 20, 1997, pp. 143–146.
235 William Rand saved the day: Richard Cahan, Chicago: Rising from the Prairie (Carlsbad, Calif.: Heritage Media, 2000), p. 323.
235 zoom chunkily in fixed increments: In 2010, about a year after I spoke with Minster (and just months after he left the company), Rand McNally did finally upgrade the map interface on its site.
CHAPTER 12: RELIEF
237 “We shall not cease”: T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” Collected Poems, 1909– 1962 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991), p. 208.
238 “We kept expecting”: “43°N 72°W (visit #1),” Degree Confluence Project, Feb. 20, 1996, http://confluence.org/confluence.php?visitid=1.
238 16,340 “confluence points” worldwide: “Frequently Asked Questions,” Degree Confluence Project, http://confluence.org/faq.php.
238 Confluence hunters have dutifully braved: Joseph Kerski, “To the Nth Degree . . . and Minute, and Second: Confluence Hunting on Planet Earth,” Earthzine, Dec. 8, 2009, www.earthzine.org/2009/12/08/to-the-nth-degree%E2%80%A6and-minute-and-second-confluence-hunting-on-planet-earth/.
240 the “Earth sandwich”: “If the Earth Were a Sandwich,” www.zefrank.com/sandwich/.
242 the shape of a rabbit’s ears: Robert Sandall, “Bill Drummond: Pop’s Prankster Heads for Destruction,” The Daily Telegraph, Aug. 19, 2008.
242 the “Crystal Day” festival: Chris Adams, Turquoise Days: The Weird World of Echo & the Bunnymen (New York: Soft Skull Press, 2002), p. 153.
243 the last river and the last mountain range: Bradford J. Frye, From Barrier to Crossroads: An Administrative History of Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, National Park Service, www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/care/adhi/adhi3.htm.
INDEX
Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations.
Adams, John, 5
aerial photogrammetry, 217, 220
Afghanistan, maps of, 60
Alexander the Great, crying like a little girl, 242
Ali G Show, Da, 36, 37
allegorical maps, 26–28, 27
America, naming of, 75–77, 76
Amundsen, Roald, 205
Anian, Strait of, 83
animal wayfinding, 21–25, 220
Ankrom, Richard, 171–72
antipodes, 240–242, 241
ants, 23–24
Apollo program, 59
Arafat, Yasir, cartographic headwear of, 6
Argleton, England, 224
Arrested Development, 37
art, maps and, 99–100, 110
Arthur, Chester A., 240
Association of American Geographers, 14,