I think that's true for many of us, jaerdaph. My earliest wow moment with maps was looking at My dad's reader's digest (I think it was) Atlas of the world which had relief maps of land and ocean (very much like Fractal Terrains produces on call) but in the 1970s it was mind blowing. It was a huge Atlas (to a seven year old) and had a cross section of the sea with pictures of fish from the surface to the spooky deep ocean ones (I loved looking at those) like the Angler fish.

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