Pareidolia is the phenomenon of seeing faces and other features in inanimate objects. A common example is seeing features in clouds. So, what does it become when people project features onto maps? Perhaps, we can call it cartopareidolia?
The Map of the World is Really Just a Cat Playing with a Ball
Seeing An Ice Skating Dragon in a Map of Brooklyn
An example from Twitter:
A Map of Australia is Half Dog’s Head and Half Cat’s Head
Seeing Patrick from SpongeBob SquarePants in a Satellite Image of Venice
Imagining a Map of Hawaii as a French Bulldog
For purposeful maps displaying animals and people
Creating animals out of maps
Japanese artist Kentaro Nagai shifts the world’s features around to make animals out of maps: Turning the Continents of the World into Animals
