Obsessions with maps?

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Is this considered an Aspie thing?

I don't know if I have AS or not, but as a kid I was obsessed with street maps and atlases. I used to draw fictional street maps of imaginary places. I had one neighborhood friend who told me, "why do you have maps on your wall if you're 8 years old? In my room, I have a poster of GI Joe and Transformers." Never really thought much of it.

Anyway, I guess this habit could be another sign that I might have AS?

I love maps. There, I've said it.

When I was a kid I used to love looking at maps and learning about new cities. Even as an adult I still find myself looking at google maps just for fun when I am bored.

When they taught us how to read maps at school I loved it ,still do.Atlases,county road maps,state highway,city,and topography are all cool.I just looked at a map of mid 1500's London.Whats cool is that my son does too.We never get lost.

There is only one thing better than maps. Globes!

I always have a road atlas on my desk at work. I have 60+ ordnance survey maps at home and many other maps more I have collected. My toolbarhas streetmap, google maps and bing maps on it. This is just the beginning. Every day i look at maps and explore and make journeys.

I just love maps too. All kind of maps. Moreover, I like to watch satellite imagery, for example on Google Earth (I can spend hours on it. I think I could orient myself quite well in many great cities in the world, because I've memorized at least their general agencement on Google Earth). I'm fond of atlases.
I like to draw maps, whether it be a reproduction of an exiting country or city, or a fictionnal one. I've drawn hundreds of those since my childhood ; sometimes it was linked with projects of texts (fantasy for example), or idealizations (transformation of a city in a greater one), or just for fun. One time I collected and glued more than a dozen of sheets that pictured my "version" of a city in France... I like to build very complex "systems" - they can be textual and fictionnal (fantasy universes "à la Tolkien"), musical (I like to compose music or to re-assemble the hundreds of pieces I know thanks to my good musical memory and my good innate tonal memory), or "geographical" and "global" - my creating of maps falls in this category.
This interest surely explains why I'm fond of game like Sim City (it seems to me I've never stopped playing with SC 4, for example), even though they're frustrating.

Nobody outside of my family knows about this obsession, maybe for the best, since it's one of the weird interests I prefer to keep to myself. I get pleasure and some kind of solace from the contemplation and the conception of maps. Sometimes I even think there could be some little strange artistic value in the one I make, but I'll probably never know. Maybe one day someone will stumble on my old maps and say : "Oh, he was even crazier than I thought".

Oh I love maps...never occurred to me it might be related. When other girls my age had posters of cute stuff and guys on their walls, I had a map of the world and one of the ocean floor and probably spent a lot more time with my wall decor than they did.
I'm not fond of GPS units. Give me a map. Preferrably a topographical map with a grid.
One of my art projects was a table of Atlas (base) holding the world on his shoulders, as a map of the world I sandblasted into glass. Alas, I had to leave Antarctica off due to the table shape..and hardly anybody ever notices.

I love maps SO much, I got a car with a navigation system! I run it MOST of the time and in the horizontal mode so that it's always oriented in the direction I'm driving!

It reminds me of the time in the mid-1970s I was in the 3rd grade and told my teacher that they should make cars with a screen whereupon one could SEE the map and have it pinpoint where the car is at any given time. She laughed and said, "WHY would anybody need something like THAT? Honey, THAT'S why they have paper maps."

I reasoned that this system would save people from having to stop and unfold them on the road.

She countered with, "The car would have to be as big as a Sherman tank to fit the computer the car would need!"

Well, well, well...we've come A LONG way, baby!! !!

I also love maps.

My dad bought me a National Geographic world atlas for my birthday in 1972--it was gorgeous. Not just all the usually high level and detailed maps of political geography, but a huge section at the back with weather, ocean currents, deep sea topography, geology, historical political geography, economic and religious maps...bird migration routes. It was awesome!

I play with GRASS GIS and ARC GIS for fun. I keep trying to interest my colleagues at work (graphic design) in GIS but no takers so far.

I love Google maps and Google Earth

I kept notebooks full of maps of imaginary places when I was younger--sometimes they were real places, like a beach, that I re-imagined on a different scale (those rocks are an archipelago... this is a planet in a binary system with unusual interactions that create seasonal tides... the people of the outer islands have to migrate toward the mainland twice a year in order to avoid inundation, etc. etc.) I also often invented alphabets for these maps and made notations in those created scripts.

I also enjoy maps in different styles and recreated them in my created maps--nautical charts, ancient illustrated maps, Tolkienesque fantasy maps, Ordinance Survey maps.

I have to be careful with Google maps and Google earth because I can easily lose huge chunks of time in there!

I am also a map lover... I can easily draw a mental map of the world with high level of detail.
Moreover, I have also an obsession with metro/subway and suburban trains' networks. I have memorized the entire
metro networks of Lisbon and Vienna.

I am very pleased to know that a lot of us have this interest.