I love maps. I just can not help it. Maybe I am the tallest Hobbit in the universe (6'1")?

Anyway, been reading Eddings Belgariad series and he is nice enough to have a full world map in the front of the books, and then each section where they travel through a specific land, he adds in a more detailed map for that land. I LOVE THIS!

My first encounter with a great map was Tolkien's Silmarillion. It was "detachable", which I wish more books copied. If the book I am reading has a map in the front, I usually keep a finger (or other marker) in it for easy reference. I find myself referring quite a bit to a map if the book includes one.

Is anyone else as NUTZ for maps in fantasy/sc-fi worlds as I am? What are some of your favorite maps?

Maps are indeed nice for reference. My first exposure to them was actually in the ASOIAF series. Sometimes you can smell trouble ahead of time just by knowing the land. For example, some people were traveling north, and I noticed they were headed by a certain place, I knew something was bound to happen. And sure enough, it did.

<3 maps

I would like a nice 3D interactive map of the universe. On a hologram projector of course

I had this http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dAX0QIUPWp4/UN294fyG0SI/AAAAAAAABN4/pfNEWmvW5fg/s1600/historical+map+of+england+&+wales+%28small%29.jpg on my wall for a long time. I should really put it back up there.

One of my ambitions, if I ever become fabulously wealthy, is to have two rooms, one set aside as a library, the other as a map room.

Yea. Sometimes "seeing" where the characters are headed, or what they need to get through can bring the tension up a notch or two

That could be cool! You have the cover of the book and inside, there is another cover. You open that one and the holographic 3D map appears

THAT is an awesome map! I have a similar dream for when I "win the lottery"

My grandfather bought it for me for like a pound in a Cornish market a nearly 20 years ago. I found it in my wardrobe recently and put it up.

I also have the skyrim map on my wall, but everyone knows what that is. Sadly I lack the pretty Morrowind one.

Reading these might inspire me to aim for the same thing.. I'm already big in astronomy and I'm also a bookworm, but I don't really have any maps.

In terms of the topic, I haven't read any books aside from the Inheritance Cycle that had maps in them.. that one was fun to look at, but it would have been nice if there had been an updated map specifically for the epilogue too. The only other maps I want are game related (mainly TES, and I don't have any of them except Skyrim's.)

Maps are amazing. Not just in books, but games as well (honourary mention to The Elder Scrolls maps in that regard). I like seeing a geographical chart of the world I'm reading about.

I can't remember my first exposure to maps. Think the Chronicles of Narnia had something like this, though I don't recall. Also the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the Wheel of Time saga did something like what the OP described, which is awesome.