Robert Berlo got hooked on maps at an early age. As a kid
growing up in San Francisco he’d pore over roadmaps in the backseat of the car
on family vacations. Sometime around age 11 he started collecting them.
By the time Berlo died in 2012 at 71 he’d amassed more than
12,000 roadmaps and atlases. But he did more than covet and collect them. Over
the decades, Berlo spent countless hours mining his maps for data, creating
tables, charts, graphs, and still more maps on everything from transportation
systems to the population history of small towns. Now, Berlo’s collection is
getting another life as a repository of previously hidden information.
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