I'm a geography major, and the reason I got into geography was because as a child, I was into maps. As a child, I was into maps for the same reason I was into books -- because cool, impossible things seemed to happen a lot in them. Specifically, monsters.
I guess I'm technically an adult and should probably be over this whole monsters/mythology phase, and by living in a world with Google Earth I've severally limited my ability to believe in hundreds of monsters currently haunting the world's oceans as depicted in the Carta Marina (the biggest influence on this project), I do have access to data collected by the BFRO (Bigfoot Field Research Organization), and I am planning to make an old-fashioned looking dot density map of reported bigfoot sightings in the US and Canada.
I realize that this map is pretty out there, and ultimately unhelpful in solving any global problems. However, this is a cartography class. My only other mapping classes have all been GIS based, and I want to get to fully explore the art that is map-making with this final project in a way that my other classes haven't offered.
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