Yet another tome on our love of maps has surfaced: On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Works. Interestingly, the author Simon Garfield bemoans what smartphones and GPS devices have done to the culture of maps, calling the technology "a loss for geography, history, navigation, maps, human communication and the sense of being connected to the world all around us." Read "
Mapping A History Of The World, And Our Place In It" on NPR.