We are all familiar with the wonderful maze of a store that is IKEA, no? Cunningly contrived to let yourself get lost for a day of perusing mysteriously named Swedish household wonderfulness (and don’t forget the meatballs!) while astutely offering you childcare if you should need it. Our sons happily would play with cars on their street floor mats, and a good time was had by all. And until fairly recently (2019), one of the items on offer was the Björksta, a large classy map […]
Towns that Never Were. Mountain Ranges That Were Nonexistent. And then an IKEA That Apparently Exists in a Land That Never Was. Good Times!
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and why it matters) by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman