Jerry's Map Interactive
Most maps capture a moment in time. Jerry's Map has spent more than sixty years doing the exact opposite. Jerry's Map is the life's work of artist Jerry Gretzinger, who began drawing an imaginary city in the summer of 1963. What started as a simple doodle gradually expanded into an immense fictional world. Today, Jerry's Map consists of more than 4,000 individual 8-by-10-inch panels arranged in a giant circular formation. Together they form a sprawling imaginary world that sits somewhere between a city plan, an abstract artwork, and a living organism. Jerry's Map Interactive allows you to explore detailed snapshots of the map as it existed in 2013, 2014, and 2015, providing a fascinating opportunity to examine one of the world's most extraordinary long-running cartographic art projects up close and in detail. It allows you to zoom deep into the map's intricate geography and compare how different areas evolved during those three years, revealing a landscap...
