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Strange Maps — July 23, 2010

500.000 Hits

This blog has been up since September 2006. In that half year, I’ve posted 90 maps, gotten about 1.000 comments – most of them interesting and/or favourable – and just now the traffic on this site tallied up to 500.000 hits… That’s way more than I imagined for a blog merely intended to be a storage room for some strange maps I like.

Thank you all for your interest and contributions! And especially for any maps you suggest, some of which I’ve already posted, others I will in the future, all of which I appreciate greatly. It’s been cool to find out so many people like maps.

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