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Your City. Judged A sharp tongued and fierce witted full-color collection of maps of America's greatest cities in all their brutally honest glory. When you move to a new city you look at a map to get you where you need to be, but a Google Map of San Francisco won't tell you where you can get "Real Dim Sum" or where "The Worst Trader Joes Ever" is. Or if you're visiting Chicago, you might want to see the Magnificent Mile, but not know it's right next to where "Suburbanites Buy Drugs" and "Retired Mafioso." This is where Judgmental Maps comes in - a no holds barred look at city life that is at once a love letter and hate mail from the very people who live there. What started as a joke between comedian Trent Gillaspie and his friends in Denver, quickly grew into a viral sensation with a rabid and enthusiastic community labeling maps of their cities with names and descriptions we all think of, but are a bit too shy to say out loud.
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Trent Gillaspie is a comedian, technology product manager, graphic designer by hobby, and a self-proclaimed cartography nerd living in Austin, Texas. His JudgmentalMaps.com blog has been seen by millions of people around the world, and has been featured in The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Complex Magazine, Someecards, Fast Co.Design, The Atlantic's CityLab, and was named one of Tumblr'sTop Trending Blogs of 2014. He is a firm believer that running through a city is a nice way to discover all of its best-hidden secrets. He has a goal of one day buying a house in Denver's People's Bosses neighborhood, and he is on a quest to visit all 50 states. As of fall 2016, his state count is at 48, and he asks, "Is West Virginia really worth it? "
