30 Interesting Maps That Might Change Your Perspective, As Shared On This Instagram Account

If earlier mapmakers chased quick, profitable output based on information obtained from reports of travelers and explorers, the new French cartographers were scientists, often men of rank and independent means.

For expensive ventures, such as the triangulation of two degrees of a meridian to determine the Earth’s size more accurately, they were even subsidized by the king or the French Academy. Similar trends were emerging across all over Europe.

During the past few decades, there has been a growing interest in the automation of mapping processes, and considerable progress was made in this area.

But as we can see from the pictures, there's still plenty of creativity going into making maps.