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Missouri has never looked so good … Dave Imus’ map of the United States recently won the “Best of Show” at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society.

Slate magazine calls Imus’ cartographic work of art, “The Greatest Paper Map Of The United States You’ll Ever See.”

“What I did different than anybody else who ever made a map of the United States was that I brought into focus… the basic geography,” Imus told Here & Now’s Robin Young. “People that read this map or look at it on the wall can understand and appreciate more deeply the character of the United States… the lay of the land.”

(Image: A map of Missouri. Courtesy Dave Imus, Imus Geographics.)

i love maps. mostly for their decorative purposes, or for the times when you can say “aww remember when we went here?”  but i just love them.  i love globes too, and how you can run your hands all over them to learn about mountains.  this map brings all that back for me.  it’s an experience - if you look at the entire US map, you’ll see how crowded the northeast is, and how flat the midwest is, and you can even start to discern the patterns between the major cities.  i just want to put it in my pocket and absorb its awesomeness.

further, missouri is the shit, yo.  long live the show me state. 

(via npr)