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Kurtofan posted:how do people remember the station names in new york, it's all numbered streets that's how you loving remember it you insaniac. Over there: rue saint-him intersects with place de la her several times along boulevard Louis CCXII, except for the bit near the palais des them, and then a 90-degree pivot for rue saint-who?? Here in logic land: take a right on 42nd. It is a grid. Streets and avenues. You won't get lost. Welcome to the city.
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Jan 5, 2020 23:21
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Kurtofan posted:how do people remember the station names in new york, it's all numbered streets In Manhattan the grid is very logical and easy. It's a coordinate system. If you have even a little familiarity with the city I can tell you it's at 114th and 7th and you know right where that is on the map.
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Jan 5, 2020 23:29
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Grand Fromage posted:In Manhattan the grid is very logical and easy. It's a coordinate system. If you have even a little familiarity with the city I can tell you it's at 114th and 7th and you know right where that is on the map. Still works in the Bronx but with slightly more effort. Look at the fuckin grid. We live in the space age.
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Jan 6, 2020 00:11
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Queens though
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Jan 6, 2020 00:13
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No one lives there so it counts just slightly more than Staten Island
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I live in South Philly and I love how we have a grid but it's made intentionally confusing to keep residential streets free from traffic. I think it's absolutely genius it has all the road design of a suburban area with arterials and subdivisions but packed in tight. And it fosters bike and pedestrian traffic because those travellers can just ignore the one ways.
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Jan 6, 2020 02:17
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To chime in on the Roman slavery front, you guys are being too generous to the Romans. Yes, because slavery wasn't racialized in the Roman world the same way it became in the early modern West slaves could be more autonomous and manumission was more widespread, but independent slaves and freedmen are overly represented in the literary sources because they were a focus of anxiety for the Roman elite. The everyday experiences of the vast majority of Roman slaves was comparable to that of slaves in the 18th-19th c. Caribbean or the American South. There were many circumstances in which they were basically used as expendable labour (mining and industry); authors like Cato or Columella recommend feeding agricultural slaves -- who comprised the majority of all servile labour -- the minimum amount of food necessary and getting rid of them when they got sick or old; they were tortured and killed under suspicion of committing even minor offenses; and women and young boys could expect to be sexually assaulted regularly. One of the main accomplishments of comparative historical research on slavery has been to do away with some of the myths of the slave experience in the ancient world.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I live in South Philly and I love how we have a grid but it's made intentionally confusing to keep residential streets free from traffic. I think it's absolutely genius it has all the road design of a suburban area with arterials and subdivisions but packed in tight. And it fosters bike and pedestrian traffic because those travellers can just ignore the one ways. I remember reading about a bunch of insane drama with y'alls byzantine parking permit system
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Debate & Discussion › politically-loaded maps - roman apologists
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I live in South Philly and I love how we have a grid but it's made intentionally confusing to keep residential streets free from traffic. I think it's absolutely genius it has all the road design of a suburban area with arterials and subdivisions but packed in tight. And it fosters bike and pedestrian traffic because those travellers can just ignore the one ways. I've never been to Philly so I can't visualize what you're describing, but my gut reaction to 'the roads are more confusing to drive on' as a cyclist is that doesn't make me feel safer.
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Jan 6, 2020 19:45
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Jan 6, 2020 19:47
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That was already posted, friend.
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Jan 6, 2020 20:09
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in what reality can one classify west virginia as a midwestern state or montana as 'northern'
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luxury handset posted:in what reality can one classify west virginia as a midwestern state it has west in the nam
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I remember reading about a bunch of insane drama with y'alls byzantine parking permit system Jippa posted:Debate & Discussion › politically-loaded maps - roman apologists I see how it is.
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Count Roland posted:That was already posted, friend. My bad. i thought it was a Fun, Cool Map to share with my friends, but i guess now i’m the loving idiot again.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:56
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Family Values posted:I've never been to Philly so I can't visualize what you're describing, but my gut reaction to 'the roads are more confusing to drive on' as a cyclist is that doesn't make me feel safer. Essentially, it's a thick grid-like series of narrow one-way streets. However, if you're driving, you can't just navigate around like a normal grid. Many of the residential streets change direction every block or every other block. Therefore no one is going to be driving down one of these blocks unless they're specifically going somewhere on that block. The majority of traffic has to travel on the arterials, which mostly keep the same direction for miles or have more than one lane.
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Jan 6, 2020 22:08
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Essentially, it's a thick grid-like series of narrow one-way streets. However, if you're driving, you can't just navigate around like a normal grid. Many of the residential streets change direction every block or every other block. Therefore no one is going to be driving down one of these blocks unless they're specifically going somewhere on that block. The majority of traffic has to travel on the arterials, which mostly keep the same direction for miles or have more than one lane. That's cool. Though looking on satellite and street views, it doesn't look like this method leaves a lot of room for trees.
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Jan 6, 2020 22:41
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Count Roland posted:That's cool. It's because of poverty: https://whyy.org/articles/phillys-low-income-neighborhoods-have-fewer-trees-and-the-citys-free-tree-program-isnt-helping/ And also quote:“There are natural, historical reasons that some places have more trees than others,” he said. “The story of South Philly is that there were cultural reasons. Italian immigrants wanted to be able to look out onto their block and see what was happening on their block, and having trees prevented that.”
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Jan 6, 2020 22:48
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FreudianSlippers posted:Stockholm is actually working on bringing back it's tram networks. Helsinki arguably took the right approach almost all of its infrastructure intact, then building off it and improving it. It really surprised me how fast some trams were as well and honestly the experience was certainly more preferrable than buses. Luckily, Moscow saved at least some of its tram network and it is still seeing some serious upgrades, however tram lines are still disappearing in some smaller Russian cities like Tver due to budgetary issues.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:It's because of poverty: Hmm, makes sense. And I did notice lots of trees inside the block-- so you're back porch is in the shade during the summer.
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Jan 6, 2020 22:59
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What region does the upper peninsula belong to? Who can say.
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Low-hanging fruit, but hey. https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1214930540006117379
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Jan 8, 2020 17:39
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Well, you know...on the bright side, 23% got it right.
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With things like this I always assume/hope that it's at least 50% people taking the piss, like those suspiciously many replies placing Iran in the Deep South
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Jan 8, 2020 20:14
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Powered Descent posted:Low-hanging fruit, but hey. I'm the dot pretty drat close to Iraan, TX
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Jan 8, 2020 20:18
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Wichita: the Iran of the USA
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System Metternich posted:With things like this I always assume/hope that it's at least 50% people taking the piss, like those suspiciously many replies placing Iran in the Deep South Of course it is. With surveys like this you can usually assume a large percentage of respondents threw a dart at a board while barely glancing at it, some other smallish but statistically significant percentage intentionally answered incorrectly to be trolls, and yet another fairly large contingent are actually ignorant. The last group is the responses vaguely in western Asia & southern Europe. However that's not the Deep South, that's the Midwest, which is sort of ironic.
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Jan 8, 2020 20:58
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System Metternich posted:With things like this I always assume/hope that it's at least 50% people taking the piss, like those suspiciously many replies placing Iran in the Deep South A decent chunk of people probably just hit some point at random without even looking, another bunch are deliberately joking, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least 5% have no idea how to read a map or knowledge of geography outside of their immediate area and genuinely think Iran might be in Texas or Kentucky because they have no conception of where anything is located.
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interpreting graphics and maps is a learned ability (like, even knowing what a scatterplot does is not a universal ability in adults https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/09/16/the-art-and-science-of-the-scatterplot/) and geography is not a mandatory subject in US schools and also people like loving with those kind of polls but also marg bar, and i want to emphasize this point, āmrikā. so there's a lot of potential interpretations, really
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people so dumb, not know what map country is, like what me do e: look! look! there place, on map! i know thing is, look map long time!
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Jan 9, 2020 00:12
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You can go the bulk of your life without ever really needing to know how to read a political map of the countries of the world, much less know from memory each and every country and where it is. In fact, that's why historically world maps were these weird blobby things that only vaguely matched up to actual landmass shapes until the growth of naval importance popularized maps that specifically got the shape of the seas and coasts right. It's often unproductive to fret over specific land borders, and for a long time people just kept in mind which cities belonged to who. Much like how it's easier to just know which is your house and which is your neighbor's house, and the property line only matters if you're building a fence. I mean, if map reading was a useful skill, I'd be leading a much better life by now.
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Jan 9, 2020 03:30
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The real trick is being able to draw a "major ethnic group" map rather than a political map anyway.
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Jan 9, 2020 03:37
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Real pro's make overlapping haplo-group maps. And then post it in a Rust gaming discord.
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Jan 9, 2020 03:51
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As a kid, I loved maps. Mostly because it was a pretty picture with words to read on it, but I still liked them and learned a bunch of countries and flags at a young age, relative to other kids in my class (though that's not saying much in the US). Mas are still cool though and should be more incoporated into world history education in the US.
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Jan 9, 2020 07:58
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I too spent many an hour as a kid poring over maps in my history books and my parents' globe. They've always just been interesting to me.
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Jan 9, 2020 18:30
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I work in telematics and spend a lot of my time staring at and editing map and GPS data. When I'm not at work I'm a Waze editor as a personal hobby. I think it all started with Simcity on my parent's computer as a kid.
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I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of posters in this thread got into geography/maps because Tolkien made it so no fantasy book since has lacked a bitchin' map at the front talking about "The Death Fields of Gargut" or "The Lost Dragon Empire of Kazantil". I know thats what got me started.
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As a kid I liked to - look at the maps in Nat Geos, along with the cool photos of what the places in the maps were actually like - parents had some framed antique maps of south east asia that were neat to look at - fantasy books aw yeah. This is probably the best and chillest thread in D&D, because maps are great and we all agree on it. Just post maps, any maps at all.
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