<story><title>A cartographer drew a freehand map of North America (2019)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/north-america-big-map</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marmight</author><text>It is labeled correctly on his map, but he is recorded as saying something incorrect in the article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Also Baffin Island in Greenland. So few people have been to that part of the world.&lt;p&gt;Baffin Island is in Canada.  Since this would be something silly for a cartographer to get wrong, I wonder if he didn&amp;#x27;t actually say &amp;quot;Baffin Island &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; Greenland&amp;quot; and his response was incorrectly transcripted.</text></comment>
<story><title>A cartographer drew a freehand map of North America (2019)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/north-america-big-map</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwup238</author><text>I really like this article but I don&amp;#x27;t know why!&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Melbourne-based Anton Thomas drew North America by hand&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why North America instead of Australia, m8? Potential market size? That&amp;#x27;s so American :-)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; a freelance cartographer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What the hell is a freelance cartographer, what does he do, and who are his colleagues? Buster Bluth and a bunch of Earth observation satellites? That&amp;#x27;s one competitive market.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; I was working as a cook in the old port of Montreal. And in classic Montreal fashion, we had littered the apartment with things we found on the side of the road. And one was this big fridge. It had all these rusty, brown stains on it. My housemate Douglas, from Zimbabwe, had been urging me to draw him something as a memento, since he knew I was going to go back to New Zealand. He had painted the fridge with white house paint to cover up the stains and I thought, “What about the fridge?”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s it, I&amp;#x27;m moving to Australia.&lt;p&gt;I only collect maps that predate the steam engine but I would love to buy a huge wall size print!</text></comment>