**Abstract**

Creative efforts showing places and human/environmental features are integral to understanding our evolution of knowledge. Throughout human history, the construction of maps for personal, commercial or political control has been instrumental in displaying food production, faith landscapes, human migration, transportation networks, environmental conditions, human welfare and much more. The visible products about environmental settings and human well-being from prehistoric artists, explorers, cartographers and geographers to those using satellites, GIS and social media reflect rich imaginations about the place and environmental knowledge. Historical creative efforts are addressed as well as ongoing geographic searches and mapping to improve our understanding of the planet's human and environmental features. Creative curiosities about places local, planetary and extra-planetary will forever be part of human histories.

**Keywords:** prehistory, Europeanization, hyperlinks, geohumanities, imagination, planetary knowledge gaps, unknowns

*Geographers on Afric-maps. With savage pictures filled their gaps. And o'er uninhabitable downs. Placed elephants for want of towns. —Jonathan Swift. Geographers find maps exude emotion. About a place or environmental location. Far less inspiring are the worlds of apps. Replete with many uninspiring gaps. —Stanley Brunn.*
