"Our attention is a gift. Reading maps is an act of empathy. They tell us as much about the person who made them as they do about the world."

For The New York Times, Ben Buckland navigates an adventure through #Switzerland with hand-drawn #maps from strangers: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/17/travel/switzerland-local-maps.html

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