Does anyone else like to draw completely fictitious maps?

[Henry]

When I was in grade school, I used to draw fictional maps on the inside covers of my notebooks. I even had a couple of kids PAY ME to draw ones on their notebooks. How nerdy is that?

Has anyone ever drawn their own highways on old road atlases? I did that a lot with some old Rand McNally atlases, back when they had lots of broken lines where the interstates were planned to be built!

[Duke87]

Has anyone ever drawn their own highways on old road atlases? I did that a lot with some old Rand McNally atlases, back when they had lots of broken lines where the interstates were planned to be built!

Yup. Used to do that all the time.

...which I now regret having done, because what could have been some nice old maps were scribbled all over and abused to the point of falling apart.

[berberry]

I can't remember whether I used to draw them on paper or not, but I used to carve them into the tops of my desks at Woodlawn High School in Baton Rouge.  They were old desks to begin with, but I made them look a lot worse by the time I was done with them. 

By comparing notes, a couple teachers figured out who was doing it, called me into a room and shouted at me for a while.  I never did it again and hadn't thought about it in decades until I saw this topic title. 

[triplemultiplex]

Has anyone ever drawn their own highways on old road atlases? I did that a lot with some old Rand McNally atlases, back when they had lots of broken lines where the interstates were planned to be built!

Got one sitting on the desk right now.
It's a 03 Rand Mac.
There's also a '00 Delorme atlas of Wisconsin that got the same treatment.  I've still got an non-fantasy one too. They're both from before Delorme downgraded their cartography to that pile of shit they have now.  How am I supposed to correct the many errors now?  I can't even look at the highway shields without vomiting.   

[D-Dey65]

Has anyone ever drawn their own highways on old road atlases? I did that a lot with some old Rand McNally atlases, back when they had lots of broken lines where the interstates were planned to be built!

Plenty of times. I've even done that with road maps that I knew needed to be corrected. I must admit that's one of the many regrets in my life.

[Henry]

Yup. Used to do that all the time.

...which I now regret having done, because what could have been some nice old maps were scribbled all over and abused to the point of falling apart.

Got one sitting on the desk right now.
It's a 03 Rand Mac.
There's also a '00 Delorme atlas of Wisconsin that got the same treatment.  I've still got an non-fantasy one too. They're both from before Delorme downgraded their cartography to that pile of shit they have now.  How am I supposed to correct the many errors now?  I can't even look at the highway shields without vomiting.   

Plenty of times. I've even done that with road maps that I knew needed to be corrected. I must admit that's one of the many regrets in my life.

Well, at least it's comforting to know that I'm not the only one! Although I do have one regret myself: not saving those maps so I could scan them for displaying in the Fictional Highways thread... 

[meestersam]

I drew the maps like you guys and also used colored markers to draw the actual roads, paint lines, routes, intersections, signs and signals.  I have probably 10 or 15 notebooks full of these scenes.  They're a lot like the pictures burgess87 posted.