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.
500K hits, well deserved!
Comment by Neut — March 24, 2007 @
Who doesn’t like maps?? We’d be lost without them…
;-P
Comment by A.R.Yngve — March 24, 2007 @
I print off each one of your posts for me, my husband, and my daughter. It is very popular breakfast-table reading. Thanks for all the work I know goes into your blog.
Comment by Jeane Goforth — March 24, 2007 @
Congratulations and keep up the good work - easily one of my favourite blogs on the whole wide web.
Comment by Brian Ruckley — March 24, 2007 @
great payoff for a big effort well done.
Congratulations!
I love maps, and feel very indulged by your blog.
Comment by suburbanlife — March 24, 2007 @
I’m an especially big fan of maps on stamps - so you’ve had several treats for me. Thanks!
Comment by Andy — March 24, 2007 @
You and your blog rock!
Comment by riversaredamp — March 24, 2007 @
Great Site! I check it at least once a week. You should update more.
Comment by eah — March 24, 2007 @
Well, I love maps and I’ve been reading your blog since October. Thanks for bringing us such interesting maps. There’s more to learn everyday. :)
Comment by Eugene — March 25, 2007 @
Great to hear that this blog is doing great. I am a major map freak myself. There isn’t enough map related sites on the ‘net. Keep up the great work.
Comment by James Grose — March 25, 2007 @
Love the site, I’m annoyed I didn’t have the idea.
Do you have an email address we can send suggestions to?
Comment by Ed — March 25, 2007 @
Congratulations. It was obviously an idea whose time had come!
I think a lot of us love to look at maps, and if they happen to have a strange or interesting story to tell, so much better!
Comment by extrapolater — March 25, 2007 @
Read since the 5th post. Awesome website. Keep all these maps coming. Great teaching tool and great way to make you think about the world around you.
Comment by Kurt — March 26, 2007 @
Congrats.
Comment by Terry — March 26, 2007 @
Yes congratulations on the great blog. I always thought I was the only person fascinated by maps!
Comment by onewayphotoblog — March 26, 2007 @
Well done for keeping up an interesting blog site, was recommended it by a friend with an eye for the curious.
I echo the sentiment above above having an address to e-mail suggestions, I have one that I saw the other day which was good.
Comment by Russ — March 26, 2007 @
Hi everyone,
I’ve just created a new mail address just for this blog. Please direct all the questions and suggestions you don’t want to place in a comment (like this one) to: strangemaps@gmail.com.
Comment by strangemaps — March 26, 2007 @
Dude, this is just about the best blog on the internet. Good for you and please keep it up.
Comment by Matt — March 26, 2007 @
Congratulations! Very well deserved. I’ve also been reading since nearly the beginning and have gained much pleasure from your blog. I look forward to many more entries.
Comment by snowqueen — March 26, 2007 @
Congratulations, excellent maps and excellent blog (linked it long ago). Keep on bloggin!
Comment by kasulibes — March 27, 2007 @
Congratulations! This blog has been one of my favourites since the day it first went up. Wishing you all the best for the future.
Comment by defrostindoors — March 27, 2007 @
you rock man. the stranger it gets the more exciting it gets. you totally deserved it dude! (ok now i sound like TMNT!) :D
Comment by syahid ali — March 28, 2007 @
Maybe one reason you’ve had a “bump” in hits lately: I found this on the new Google Homepage where you can add “gadgets” to a cusomized page. When I entered the keyword “map”, this blog came up as a “gadget” that I could add.
Comment by Nonie — March 28, 2007 @
Great ! And how do you we contact you ?
Comment by Guillaume — March 28, 2007 @
Congrats and thanks for the great blog! I love maps as well, I remember spending a lot of time with my atlas and various other map books as a child, sometimes drawing my own maps just for fun. I never became a cartographer, though, since I’m pretty much useless at anything math-related. :-/
Comment by Lear — April 3, 2007 @
I found this blog only recently, and loved it immediately. It’s now my favorite, bar none. Please keep it up, and thank you!
Comment by Tim Seah — April 4, 2007 @
I love this blog, but I’d really wish you would get an rss or xml feed!
Comment by Mike — April 4, 2007 @
Mike, the feed address would be:
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/feed/
Comment by defrostindoors — April 5, 2007 @
For me, finding this site was like finding strange hidden artifacts.
The stranger, the better.
Congratulations on a job well done.
Comment by ang — April 20, 2007 @
Peace people
We love you
Comment by HelloWorld — April 28, 2007 @
Love your site. I have just realized how fascinated I am by odd maps, especially those with illustrations. I was just in Beijing. I spent $200 having a very cheap illustrated map of the old city framed as my major souvenir of the trip.
Comment by Vicki Fewell — June 2, 2007 @
Congratulations
Comment by Wezp Directory — June 10, 2007 @
I add my congratulations ! Quite a fascinating site, brilliant research - and very knowledgable additions from everyone.
I hope the contributions pour in !
Comment by Robert — July 23, 2007 @
Congratulations with you effort made…keep up your good job.We really enjoy reading your blog.
Comment by dynn — August 1, 2007 @
Maps here, some are fanciful, light, and funny; some are cutting edge scholarship research type o’ stuff; they can be winsome, delightful, thought-provoking, irritating, encouraging, bolstering, remarkable, and a pure joy to gaze and contemplate upon.
Thank you,
A Fellow Mappie
Comment by Dale Milne — September 3, 2007 @