Thanks to Ross McDonald for pointing us at this Australian puddle spotted in Somalia by a member of the Australian Defence Force. The image originally appeared on the ADF web site (see here on the WayBackMachine) and more recently on GeoLounge who said
Cartocacoethes was a term first coined by John Krygier from the Making Maps blog to describe “a mania, uncontrollable urge, compulsion or itch to see maps everywhere.”
https://www.geolounge.com/cartocacoethes/
The cartographic equivalent to seeing Jesus in burnt toast, the terminology is a concatenation of the greek word for map (khartes) and cacoethes, a Greek word meaning “an irresistible urge to do something inadvisable.”
This one may be up there with “the elephant’s ear” in our all time best Maps in the Wild
