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Randarkman posted:Alot of those names are really badly translated. And many of those aren't even actually what those names mean. They've also mixed many of the stations up. Whoever made that either isn't a Norwegian, doesn't really know Norwegian or is a machine. That's the point. When given the choice between an accurate or a funny translation, you obviously go for the funny one.
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Grevling posted:That's the point. When given the choice between an accurate or a funny translation, you obviously go for the funny one. Except that many of them aren't even translations.
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May 20, 2017 15:10
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Randarkman posted:Except that many of them aren't even translations. Most of them are fairly reasonable to the point where you can see what the translator was thinking. Only a few or really off, like Stoned which you pointed out, but mostly they're pretty clever. It's funny and that's all that matters.
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May 20, 2017 16:50
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I'd translate the Paris one for fun but they're loving all just either place names [ecole militaire - military school] that make sense and are boring, or people/saint names. BORING.
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May 20, 2017 16:56
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You have to get really creative. For example in the Russian map, Bagration is broken up into Bag rati on -> бог рати он -> he is the god of the army.
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May 20, 2017 16:59
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Or sometimes rely on homonyms: "Violence Creek" in the Oslo map is actually Vollebekk. "Bekk" does mean "creek", but the first part likely derives from "voll" meaning "flat, grassy field". But it is pronounced the same as "vold", which means "violence".
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May 20, 2017 17:26
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HookShot posted:I'd translate the Paris one for fun but they're loving all just either place names [ecole militaire - military school] that make sense and are boring, or people/saint names. BORING. école militaire et colle mille y terre and glue thousand there earth
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May 20, 2017 20:34
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Cat Mattress posted:école militaire 
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May 20, 2017 22:14
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Yeah now do one for New York Street CLXVI (aka Stadion of the Americans)
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May 22, 2017 14:35
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Grevling posted:Most of them are fairly reasonable to the point where you can see what the translator was thinking. Only a few or really off, like Stoned which you pointed out, but mostly they're pretty clever. It's funny and that's all that matters. I dunno, makes sense to me. If it's a rock farm, it's probably a stoned field.
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May 22, 2017 14:45
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Peanut President posted:Yeah now do one for New York Johann Molecule City.
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May 22, 2017 23:22
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NYC's got a lot of stations indirectly named after old Dutch families and other things like that, it'd be easy to "retranslate" those to come up with something funny. Like say Station Of The Sickle over in East New York... Of course 114 of the station names in the system are used for stations on multiple lines, with the most common name showing up on 6 separate lines (23rd street). 48 of those names are just numbered streets. Van Siclen as I used for the example up there is used on 3 separate stations on completely different lines.
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May 22, 2017 23:41
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May 22, 2017 23:47
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the random connecting lines over open ocean make me think of the maps in pokémon
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May 23, 2017 01:04
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May 23, 2017 01:34
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I think it's meant to refer to the national capital of each country, and they couldn't be bothered to figure it out for most countries.
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May 23, 2017 01:38
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Does downtown Moscow have access to the sea? It's impossible to know.
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May 23, 2017 01:42
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I mean it gets to be a pretty hard question for a lot of capital cities. The official "downtown" neighborhood of Washington, DC is half a mile from the Potomac, but massive oceangoing ships can sail right up the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac to the shores of DC - does that count as access? Ottawa's Centretown district bumps up against the Ottawa River,and you can technically bring small boats up the Ottawa River to it from the sea after going trough at least 4 locks on the St Lawerence, does that count?
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May 23, 2017 02:00
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Maybe it's only for primate capitals or a similar concept?
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May 23, 2017 02:30
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It's hard to tell from Google maps, but I'm pretty sure downtown Port Moresby is right on the ocean.
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Domattee posted:Maybe it's only for primate capitals or a similar concept? Probably. I'm pretty sure all cephalopod and cetacean capitals have ocean access
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May 23, 2017 02:47
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I have had arguments about whether Philadelphia is a coastal port. It is!
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May 23, 2017 03:09
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Who knows if London has sea access
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May 23, 2017 03:26
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Fojar38 posted:Who knows if London has sea access Once the world’s largest seaport, but now we’re not sure.
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May 23, 2017 03:28
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I have had arguments about whether Philadelphia is a coastal port. It is! It's a banksy port
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May 23, 2017 03:37
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thankfully, we soon won't have to argue whether any of these cities are port cities
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snuggle baby luvs hugs posted:thankfully, we soon won't have to argue whether any of these cities are port cities Next page will arrive? 
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May 23, 2017 05:07
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I assume they start out with capital cities located on the coast, and then determine whether or not its nebulously defined downtown area directly borders the sea. Seems questionably useful
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May 23, 2017 06:59
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Phlegmish posted:I assume they start out with capital cities located on the coast, and then determine whether or not its nebulously defined downtown area directly borders the sea. Seems questionably useful Explain Stockholm then. It's literately a bunch of islands. 
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May 23, 2017 09:40
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Downtown borders Norrström, rather than the sea itself? Same way the City of London borders the Thames, rather than the sea.
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May 23, 2017 10:07
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They do it the lazy way and ignores rivers and canals I see.
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May 23, 2017 12:07
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An amateur cartography nerd has made precinct-level maps of the 2016 US Presidential election, which is WAY more granular than the state or county maps we normally see. It took a long time to produce these maps because this information mostly isn't available in nice convenient online repositories; the guy had to individually call and email many hundreds of local precinct chairs. And then even create the blank US precinct map himself -- it seems it just didn't exist. Huge versions and state-by-state maps at the creator's website. The interactive zoomable version at the bottom of this article, also by the map creator, is cool because you can zoom all the way down to street level. (My neighborhood voted ever-so-slightly bluer than the more expensive neighborhood on the other side of the stoplight.) Creator's twitter. (Apparently these maps have been coming out for a few months, but I'm just hearing of them now because they got mentioned on electoral-vote,, so hey, sharing with the map thread.)
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Powered Descent posted:An amateur cartography nerd has made precinct-level maps of the 2016 US Presidential election, which is WAY more granular than the state or county maps we normally see. It took a long time to produce these maps because this information mostly isn't available in nice convenient online repositories; the guy had to individually call and email many hundreds of local precinct chairs. And then even create the blank US precinct map himself -- it seems it just didn't exist. drat, nice!
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The precinct map probably didn't exist previously as voting precincts change very frequently as a whole - some places will change the borders as often as once a year while others only do it every Census term. Most precinct borders stay static for 10 years at a time, but across the tens of thousands at least that are out there it changes much more.
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Phlegmish posted:I assume they start out with capital cities located on the coast, and then determine whether or not its nebulously defined downtown area directly borders the sea. Seems questionably useful
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Like, regardless of that dumb water capitals map trying to define water, Canberra by no definition is a water port.
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May 23, 2017 22:23
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 Another map that is great without the legend.
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Lëtzebuerg rear end net e klengt Land!
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