A la cartography

There're a lot of interesting and controversial cartographical discussions and demos at, or linked from, Radical Cartography:

• An animation showing how actual noon relates to the Central Time Zone. Noon lurks around the eastern edges of time zones, to give more daylight to businessmen and less to farmers.


• An animation showing the formation of US counties from 1643 on.


• What if Manhattan went a-rovin' and snuggled up next to various port cities?


• Should subway maps preserve distance and relative position, or not?


• Currency symbols of the world, tied to geography.