Map Fact/Map Fiction

This is my interpretation of Map Fact and Map Fiction:

I found this map on http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ and I believe wordpress found it on this website: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm101.html, which is the website of American Treasures of the Library of Congress. The person who created this map was Johannes Vingboons in 1639. It is a perfect example of describing map fiction. Here is a quote from wordpress about the map:
“One of the most famous misconceptions in cartographic history is of California as an island. The origin of this error is Las Sergas de Esplandian, a romantic novel written in 1510 by Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo, stating
“that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise; and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of the Amazons.”
I couldn't have said it better myself. It just shows how little people knew back in those days.


















Here is an example of a map that is in fact true:






















It is not a very exciting map, it is only a reference map of the San Diego region in California, but it gets its point across. It shows the main highways and alternate routes to get to the center of San Diego, and the Old Town Transit center. OOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAH