Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (44 page)

Ferdinandea,
161

Fischer, Joseph,
75

Five Graves to Egypt,
184

Fix, Bryan,
203

Flaming Lips,
227

Florida, as America’s phallus,
38

Four Corners Monument,
65

Frank, Ze,
240
–42

Franken, Al,
38

Frémont, John C.,
247

Friends,
36
,
37

frillfin goby,
22

Frisch, Karl von,
25

Galileo, goofy hobbies of,
28

Gama, Vasco da,
92

Garriott, Richard,
196

Gaskin, Lilly,
122
–24

geek culture,
112
–19

gender, maps and,
139
–41

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,
36

geocaching,
186
–211

appeal of,
189
,
193
–94,
195
,
199
,
202
–3

author’s addiction to,
197
,
201
–3,
204
–5,
207
,
208
–11

bizarrely avid practitioners of,
197
–200,
202
–4,
205
–8

celebrity practitioners of,
193

extreme,
196

“First to Find” specialists,
203
–5

invention of,
186
–191

legal squabbles in,
190
–91,
200
–201

puzzles in,
196
–97

ubiquity of caches,
191
,
198
–99

Geocaching.com
,
189
–91,
192
,
193
,
198,
201,
203
,
209

geographic illiteracy,
32
–55,
133
–34,
146
,
180
,
233
,
245

as American problem,
37
–38,
42
,
126
,
151
–52

dangers of,
50
–52

historical,
36
,
39

and parenting,
43
–45

of political leaders,
36
–38

geography

academic,
45
–49,
51
–52,
55
,
133
–34

and journalists,
39
–40

defined,
46
–47,
78

ignorance of (
see
geographic illiteracy)

geoslavery,
227
–228

geotagging,
225
,
227
–28

Glenn, John,
25
–26

global information systems (GIS),
47
,
86
,
227

Global Positioning System.
See
GPS

globes,
3
,
41
–42,
97
,
222

gnomes, garden, people compared to,
159
,
193

Good Morning America,
34
,
54

Goode’s World Atlas,
85

Google Map Maker,
176
,
228
–29

Google Maps/Google Earth,
176
,
214
–221,
224
–25,
226
–28

discoveries using,
220

and geopolitics,
64
,
217
–19,
224
–
25

National Geographic Bee sponsors,
126

origin of,
214
–15

Google Street View,
175
,
216
,
218
,
227

Gorbachev, Mikhail, cartographic birthmark of,
6

GPS

games,
191
,
237
–41 (
see also
geocaching)

navigation,
140
,
192
,
232
–33,
236
,
248

satellites,
186
–87,
194
–95

graphicacy,
51
–52

grazing, correct orientation for,
220

Great Wall of j76

China, visibility from space,
26

Groening, Matt,
26
,
28

Groundspeak.
See
Geocaching.com

Guffey, Bill,
216

Guillebeau, Chris,
163
–64

Guinness Book of World Records
¸
159
,
164

“Guerrilla Public Service,”
171

Gumbel, Bryant,
35

Haiti, 2010 earthquake,
228
–30

Hakimzadeh, Farhad,
96

Half.com
, Oregon,
69

Hall, Ed,
190
–91,
199
,
201

Hammond
Medallion World Atlas,
1
–2,
6

Handel, Georg Friedrich,
98

Harbison, Robert,
52
–53,
120

Hardy, Thomas,
119

Harrison, Benjamin,
67

Harrison, John,
86

Harry Potter
series (Rowling),
112
,
199
–200,
213

Hasan Dag,
7

Heart of Darkness
(Conrad),
3

Hébert, John
56
–63,
67
,
68
,
72
,
74
–75,
78

Helgren, David,
32
–36,
40
,
42
,
47
–48,
54
–55

helium,
219
–20

Hemphill, Bert,
150

Hibberts Gore, Maine,
4

Highpointers Club,
155
–57,
165

Hillary, Edmund,
79
,
119

hippocampus,
17
,
233

Hitler, Adolf, possibly created by maps,
175

Hobbes, Thomas,
99

Hobbit, The
(Tolkien),
114
–16,
119

Hogenauer, Alan,
157
–58

Holden, Peter,
156
–57

Holy Land, maps of,
101
–2

Hooker, Joseph,
9
–10

How to Lie with Maps
(Monmonier),
47

Hudson, Christopher,
53
–54

hypsometric maps,
6
–7

imprinting,
15

Internet

creator of “roadgeek” phenomenon,
168

empowering map collectors,
91
–92

geocaching born on,
188

Library of Congress maps on,
59

and place,
225
–29

See also
Google Maps/Google Earth; location-based technologies; maps: digital

interstate highways,
168
–70

Iran,
72
–73

Irish, Jeremy,
189
–91,
193

Islandia
(Wright),
105
–7,
114

Jarrett, Alex,
237
–38

Jennings, Caitlin,
181
–82,
244
,
248

Jennings, Dylan,
1
,
10
,
62
,
173
,
181
–82,
192
–96,
204
,
248
–49

Jennings, Ken

boring dream journal of,
15
,
135

childhood of,
1
–7,
9
–11,
13
–15,
29
–31,
108
–9,
244
,
246

efficiency nerd,
16

game show contestant,
15
,
39
–40,
125
,
128

geocaching addict,
197
,
201
–3,
204
–5,
207
,
208
–11

grandparents of,
6
,
14
–15,
246
–47