In a week where I was about to make the National Geographic/Utrecht University World Water Map my Map of the Week I was distracted by a completely different map altogether.
Twitter user @MrPerfectlyFine made a map of the location of Taylor Swift during her performance at the start of her new ‘Eras’ tour.
It’s a colour-coded network map with each ‘Era’ symbolised by a separate colour. His attention to detail then took the overall combined map into several deconstructed maps for each ‘era’. Here’s the map for ‘Lover’ with additional set list annotations. Presumably the lines show the starting position of Ms. Swift using a circle, and an x shows where she got to at the end of the song. Love it!
I admire the niche micro-cartographic approach, the aesthetic, and dedication to this mapping task. I’m certainly not going to repost all his maps so please, I encourage you to delve into his thread of mappy tweets here.