I’ve always wanted a map reading room

I love studying maps. Google Maps has made looking at paper maps obsolete but I still enjoy spreading out a map on a table to inspect it. A room specifically for studying maps  would be the bomb. Decadent even. Bill Gates may have one is his big ole house.  A room brimming with maps from all points across the world, laid out and cataloged in huge map cabinets, with over stuffed leather chairs and big lighted map reading tables,  snifters of cognac  and a humidor with fine cigars. The musky smell of old paper.

Yes, that would be cool. But if you don’t have a map room to occupy your interest in maps check out The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps.  From the about page:

The Map Room is a blog that points to maps, map collections, map-related resources, and material about maps on the web. Anything that fits under that rubric, from medieval mappæ mundi to satellite imagery, and from topo maps to Tolkien, is fair game.

Some good stuff.