Past winners of American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor, the “Best of Show” award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society, include National Geographic, the CIA Cartography Center, and the U.S. Census Bureau. But earlier this year, the 38th annual Best of Show award went to a map created by Imus Geographics—which, according to Slate.com, is "basically one dude named David Imus working in a farmhouse outside Eugene, Ore." The map took Imus 6,000 hours (seven days a week for two years straight) to complete.Read more about Imus' map here, which includes relief shading instead of the standard hypsometric tinting (darker colors for lower elevations, lighter colors for higher altitudes). This gives the map a more accurate portrait of America's terrain.