“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.”

—King Solomon

Why Maps?

My quest to visualize the world began with a profound fascination, sparked by the mysteries of the Titanic, deep-sea exploration, and geomorphology. The release of Google Earth further ignited my passion, leading to countless hours spent unfolding the Earth's secrets, from ancient lakes and sunken ships to the intricate dance of plate tectonics.

Hasn’t the world already been mapped?

But you might wonder, hasn't the world already been fully mapped and explored? While we indeed know the locations of continents and nations, the real magic lies in unraveling the stories behind these places. I’m committed to deciphering how specific events, locations, social, political, and natural phenomena fit into the grand tapestry of our world. Mapping technology and spatial analysis are the tools to efficiently unravel these connections.

This quest has unfolded a valuable lesson: in geography and in all of life, every quest begins from a known starting point. This geographic concept highlights the deep interrelationship between all human knowledge and ultimately points us back to the divine wisdom God packed into the cosmos in the beginning.

—Matthew Grove, Cartographer

“Therefore let us give thanks to the one sole God, who is the beginning and Creator and life-giver and preserver and the end of the work of the world that he deigned to reveal to us the true fabric of the world, its beginning and the source of all philosophy and all truth, through Moses and the other prophets.”

— Gerhard Mercator