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  • Once upon a time, people worked on making imaginary maps https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~kobourov/PROJECTS/maps.html to visualize datasets like TV and music recommendations. It was fun. In a 2026 context, one might use AI to post process the maps and make them even better.

    graphviz

  • You guys are welcome: https://marcmajcher.github.io/jerrysmap/

    Fraterkes

  • There's a good People Make Games video about this from a few days ago

    https://youtu.be/Is8N7B9b0GQ

    archermarks

  • > The entire process is driven by instructions on a card drawn from a special deck created by the artist.

    I like this. I like that his system pushes the creative process forward without relinquishing the actual creative part of it (making the map tile).

    wxw

  • I used to do things like this when I was a kid (less extreme, never more than a single sheet of paper), where I would create some natural features: a lake shore or river, maybe a freeway or two or a railroad and then start platting out a subdivision in the open spaces. It was a delightfully meditative practice and maybe I should start doing it again.

    dhosek

  • There was another project I saw years ago that this reminds me of. It was a guy who had been running a simulated city/community for like 20 years. The whole thing was done on pen and paper and used complex rule system he had devised. Similar pre-internet outsider art vibe.

    solomonb

  • The card deck procedure is the most interesting part to me. It makes the map feel less like a drawing and more like a system Jerry is observing over decades. Maybe i need to follow his rules for a map of my own.

    rode1974

  • The most Borgesian thing to ever be posted on HN.

    wanderer2323

  • I know Jerry Map (I hope that someday will be a exposition in Spain) because I love it, I love the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art. The people who maybe mad and they built a world with own rules.

    I remember the book of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress or Cataclysm DDA .

    And weird games as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic .

    mdtrooper

  • Reminds me a bit of the truck driver who's been building a scale model of NYC for 20 years. That crossed HN 3 months ago.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657268

    macintux