Cartography by the People
What getting lost in Eindhoven has to do with a nice pit bull and a shovel.
PEN & PAPER: 1, GPS: 0
It’s no secret we’ve been obsessed with maps for a while now. Which is why we’re all over the Hand Drawn Map Association — a quirky, relentlessly amusing archive of user-submitted maps and other interesting diagrams, all drawn, of course, by hand.
The collection spans anything from convoluted direction maps 
that we bet did more harm than good, to a weird hybrid diagram of the digestive system and hell, to what appears to be a bizarre and somewhat creepy treasure-hunting map.
And in the ultimate old-school-new-school fashion, the Association has its very own Facebook page, complete with free goodies for anyone who fans it. You can even follow them on Twitter.
Which reminds us of that incessantly awesome Map of Online Communities.
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These are awesome!!! Now, that’s an unusual form of doodles that even I haven’t seen before! Kudos for a great find!