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I didn't even notice at first but Canada has taken the eastern part of Alaska. This might be a depiction of a future earth where the world has gone to war and borders have been redrawn, global warming has pushed the Sydney Opera and the Statue of Liberty out into the sea, Greenland has started to develop several settlements on their eastern coast and north-eastern Siberia has gotten a metropolis to be the envy of the world... pretty weird for a children's map. Kamrat fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Oct 10, 2016 |
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The Northern Ireland debate has been resolved by a giant robin.
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Bolivia must be happy about the War of the Pacific never happening.
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Sweden annexed Denmark. Lithuania annexed Kaliningrad Oblast. The architectures of Calgary and Siberia are identical.
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Finland gets an access to the Arctic Ocean. A good map.
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fade5 posted:Jordan and Syria appear to have been mostly absorbed by Iraq, Turkey, and the newly square Israel. (Alternatively, Jordan is the square and Israel's been absorbed by Egypt.) Lesotho, Swaziland, and southern Mozambique have all been absorbed by Greater South Africa. Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan have taken over large parts of India and now all share mutual borders. Burma has taken Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur, I guess while India was occupied conquering large parts of Kashmir and Pakistan. Wakhan Corridor becomes the new hot contested region of central Asia. Thailand has lost all of its peninsula to Malaysia but has conquered large parts of Myanmar, including taking control of Yangon (I bet they're glad they moved their capital!). Nicaragua doesn't deserve a nametag. Chile conquers the entirety of Tierra del Fuego. Argentina nukes the Falkland Islands out of existence. East Timor was again conquered by the Indonesians, in punishment for them having supported PNG ultranationalists. Uganda has captured Rwanda and Burundi and split the price with Tanzania. Even for a children's map, this is pretty bad.
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Kamrat posted:And this one is all kinds of wrong: I'm the arctic anteater. Or maybe the austrailian zebra giraffe, I'm not sure. I'm definitely not that nerdy-rear end mongolian gerbil that's for sure.
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Saladman posted:Even for a children's map, this is pretty bad. I think this is dangerously selling children short; wouldn't we want a map for kids to be accurate, so they can learn? Leave the abstract blobs to the adults who actually [maybe] [if they're not american] know what they're looking at? Then again I was tracing maps when I was 8 so maybe I'm just a freak v  v
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:I'm the arctic anteater. Have to give massive props for what appears to specifically be a quokka out in Western Australia, though.
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      Paris supremacy. Source: https://www.itdp.org/publications/people-near-transit/
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Rapid Transit Shed: Johannesburg is apt  
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For all the poo poo it gets Paris is a p good city. Like there is a reason 1/4 of frenchers live there.
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Oct 11, 2016 18:19
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It's not because everything else sucks even more?
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Oct 11, 2016 18:22
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I get mad when I see maps like that because it only takes like an hour or two in ArcMap to throw them together. I wonder how much they were paid to make them e: I'm just bitter bc I can't find a job, the maps look nice
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Oct 11, 2016 18:34
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The job market is tough for cartographers these days. loving satellites
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:
Did you look at the map scales or just assume they were 1:1?
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blugu64 posted:Did you look at the map scales or just assume they were 1:1? Paris has 100% coverage. Read the pdf.
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vintagepurple posted:For all the poo poo it gets Paris is a p good city. Like there is a reason 1/4 of frenchers live there. its poo poo op
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:Paris has 100% coverage. Read the pdf. Yeah, but Paris proper means what's named "Inner Ring Boundary" on the map. It's hilariously small in area compared to most of the other cities, especially Beijing. Washington has no excuse though, yeah.
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DC's excuse is that it's a square with low density areas, rather than a squiggly line around the high density areas.
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Kassad posted:Yeah, but Paris proper means what's named "Inner Ring Boundary" on the map. It's hilariously small in area compared to most of the other cities, especially Beijing. Washington has no excuse though, yeah. It's literally only 41 square miles, or put another way only 26% larger then the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
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blugu64 posted:It's literally only 41 square miles, or put another way only 26% larger then the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. DFW has trains too.
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 Where’s Ukraine? Each dot depicts the location where a U.S. survey respondent situated Ukraine; the dots are colored based on how far removed they are from the actual country, with the most accurate responses in red and the least accurate ones in blue.
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I like the responses in the middle of the Black Sea
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Well, you wouldn't be able to tell it was a sea from that map unless you already knew. Same for the Caspian Sea. I'm more excited for the one guy who can't get past the Falklands.
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ekuNNN posted:
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Lord Hydronium posted:Ukraine? That's near Kansas, right? No, it's in the Falklands.
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Kopijeger posted:No, it's in the Falklands. Nah, it's in the ocean south of New Zealand.
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las islas crimeas son argentinas
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Ukraine is clearly a tiny island between China and the Korean peninsula
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There's a clear vertical line running through the middle of RUssia and China where people stop guessing. I wonder if the map they used for the survey had an end of a page there, and displayed the rest of Asia west of the Americas or something.
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steinrokkan posted:There's a clear vertical line running through the middle of RUssia and China where people stop guessing. I wonder if the map they used for the survey had an end of a page there, and displayed the rest of Asia west of the Americas or something.
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I'm the Independent Island Nation of Ukraine, hundreds of miles off the south coast of New Zealand
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Alternatively, the survey did not display the map in full, with respondents having to scroll right to see the rest of Asia.
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I have to wonder if some of those are caused by a mobile implementation that got dragging and clicking confused.
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ekuNNN posted:
Also the Ukraine archipelago off the northeastern coast of Scotland, with its rich Viking and Neolithic history, and 'slightly more correct' coloring. Also the nationalists mad about the lack of Zimbabwean Ukraine.
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ekuNNN posted:
Now I'm wondering if there are some small towns in the Midwest called Ukraine that explain the dots in the US.
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Pakled posted:Now I'm wondering if there are some small towns in the Midwest called Ukraine that explain the dots in the US. I'm guessing Yukon / Ukraine confusion for everything in the US and Canada.
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A rare example of a map where the standard projection was modified to make New Zealand more visible. Nothing special other than the twist in the projection, and the politically loaded vestiges of colonialism. If you want to make a map game of it, guess the date.
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