What is Special About the Essential Geography of the USA?

The Essential Geography organizes the chaos, so you can understand geography, and see its beauty.

National Geographic's traditional cartography, left, is a disorganized slathering of geographic data, rather than functional representation of geographic reality. The Essential Geography, right, is clear and organized, and incorporates realism. This lets you see the patterns of land, water and people, including type labels, simultaneously. Because you can see geographic patterns simultaneously, you can see how they all come together into the intricately-interwoven whole we call “geography.” Wherever you look on the Essential Geography, you find a tapestry of geographic features that make that place unique in all the world.