maphead

Noun

1. Someone who is particularly interested in maps and geography.
   • "Marginalized"? You got an old map, dollikins, and you must be a maphead, and like all mapheads you're scared of the territory, got to get it on paper. Why else would you fondle the concept of "dangerous language"? -...
   • In this crowd, you don't have to roll your eyes at Mom when she mentions the geography bee in front of your friends — it's okay to be a maphead. - 2011, Ken Jennings, Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography...
   • The area where the spacecraft landed was called the Fra Mauro Formation, named after the Fra Mauro crater, one of the largest on the moon at 80km across. This didn't quite have the mellifluous ring of Sea of...