People seem to be having an awfully hard time telling Africa apart from South America and swapping the former in for the latter: Exhibit A courtesy of Harrison Cole; Exhibit B via Reddit. [Gretchen Peterson, MapFail]
Tag: Africa
Sotheby’s to Auction Private Collection of North African Maps
On 15 November Sotheby’s will be auctioning Gerhard Lerchbaumer’s collection of maps of North Africa. Comprising more than a hundred maps dating from the 15th through the 19th centuries (Sotheby’s provides a list), the collection is expected to fetch between £60,000 and £80,000. [Tony Campbell]
Mapping Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s maps hadn’t been updated in 50 years. The PC200 Burkina project aimed to change that. [via]