I’ve always liked maps … here’s an opportunity to share interesting examples of cartography.
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Love me a good map. Here are two I bought in France where they use modern geography but with the political divisions shown as they were in the years 1000 (upper) and 1500 (lower):
Mark
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That looks much like I did as a teenager. I’ve drawn maps for many hours. School didn’t like me since I didn’t do what was told me to do and was kicked out. Disastrous schools.
Anyhow. I’ll try to find a 1913 map in the coming days and post it here. Europe looked so uncomplicated in that year until Gavrillo Principe’s shot.
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Here’s an online map for you, of all UK & Irish railways:
Same site also has UK Canals.
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Lots of fascinating maps here:
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A couple of cartoon maps hanging in the Bothy… 
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This is the map my dad used during the D-Day landings. I know it doesn’t look like it, but it’s actually been restored.
Belongs to my brother now, all down to the toss of a coin. 
I used to have a large collection of WW2 maps, but I’ve sold most of them.
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Map of Boston Harbor - Had it framed 30 years ago and has traveled with me and hung on my walls in a few cities around the county.
Fascinating for me since it is my home town and learned to sail on Boston Harbor. Also would camp on the Great Brewster Island with friends during the summer months. Now living in Seattle there is lots of opportunities for sailing and camping on Islands as well! Life is sweet…
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This is an unusual map of Tegelen.
Its purpose is to indicate ‘the going’ in various areas. Obviously useful if you’re a tank commander not wishing to be a ‘stick in the mud’ 
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Some of the stories of ancient maps based on hearsay rather than solid navigation can be interesting.
That of phantom islands believed to have existed for centuries.
Didn’t the romans believe in Doggerland just off Britain that could have been there but now submerged. Also an island north but not as north as the Faroe Islands?
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Where is this please? Asking for a friend.
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I guess the civilization once living in the Doggersbank in the midst of the Northsea.
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Well that reminds me of a panicking American bloke who asked me the way to go to a certain place in Siena, Italy. He was asking how many blocks in X direction and Y direction but anyone who has been in Siena knows that principle doesn’t work there.
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