Description:

The United States is the third most populous country in the world, and has the most developed road, rail, and air networks in the world. As such, it is very difficult to map as a country. It is also, due to its unusual shape, impossible to show on a map without including a large portion of Canada and Mexico, which we've tried to downplay so the focus remained on the USA. Due to the size of the USA, I would regard this map as being a main-roads approach to presenting a country. We put on, then removed, railway lines and airports, as the artwork became so crowded with data that it was difficult to see anything. The USA is also a country of villages, rather than large cities, and although we have tried to note as many smaller centers as possible, the map has to be readable and so we had to select which urban areas to include without over-crowding the artwork.

Updated edition Jan 2018