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Guavanaut posted:Welcome to the Hotel Andalusia. Andalucia is kind of .. other planet. Virulent people. Sometimes creative people or funny or clever, or the exact oposite.
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Randallteal posted:Amazing Maps will also sell you several flavors of framed irredentist maps. love all of these states which absolutely have existed
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Tei posted:Andalucia is kind of .. other planet. Virulent people. Sometimes creative people or funny or clever, or the exact oposite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vydym4wh9Qo (e.g. Montejaque would be Fresno)
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i really despise that specific art deco/sid meier's civilization v font in this context
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Guavanaut posted:But if Aragon is now in Oregon, then western Andalusia becomes Northern California, which means that the small mountain places in Andalusia where people never stay are mapped to the places in California where people never leave Hotels?
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Vasukhani posted:love all of these states which absolutely have existed I don't think the irredentist Bulgaria is wildly off from the First Bulgarian Empire before Basil II (hello Byzantine) but lol, even the english wiki page map has a disclaimer, the first time I've seen this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:San Diego really was one of the greatest films ever made. I chortled at this, and then was forced to explain both the map and the movie Casablanca to a coworker.
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Where in the World Is San Diego?
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Eastern Ireland. EDIT: Oh, is that Jay from map men? That's a fun channel.
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Aug 19, 2021 19:34
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A whole lot of places develop some kind of... I'll call it a "colloquial north," based on coastline or some other water feature. Montreal was the first place this was explicitly pointed out to me but I've noticed it a bunch of other places since.
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The axes on which societies align themselves will often not match that of the planet itself.
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Also a lot of people fail to grasp it anyway. eg: amount of Kingston people who can't fathom south, west, or east despite the massive lake and river defining the city's geography, or amount of NYC people who can't fathom cardinal directions despite two rivers, loving Manhattan, and the loving ocean, and being an island. It's literally called the loving East River!! We lived in the world's most famous grid and you still have no idea which direction is which when you step out of our door? No I'm not calling a former roomie stupid, I'm never, ever a dumbass bitter about their lack of basic directional knowledge
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When you regularly work with the means to determine direction correctly, you rapidly find 18 or 19 out of 20 people orient their cardinal directions based on 90° increments to the nearest road, building or hedge.
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I’m Lake Butte
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Jaguars! posted:When you regularly work with the means to determine direction correctly, you rapidly find 18 or 19 out of 20 people orient their cardinal directions based on 90° increments to the nearest road, building or hedge. I work by Eastern Long Street and Western Long Street despite knowing full well they river fucks everything up, basically. It's close enough.
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I like Central Stockholm because the southern part of it is called Söder(South)malm, the northern part Nord (North)malm and the eastern part Öster(guess)malm. Makes orientation trivial of you know vaguely in what direction each district is. And the old town is literally just called Old Town.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Also a lot of people fail to grasp it anyway. Kingston ON? At least in NYC's case I'd say it's because that old stereotype about being the center of the universe tends to ring truer than not and but I figured they'd be more outdoorsy in Kingston
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Where I live every direction is south 
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CommonShore posted:Where I live every direction is south Dear Santa, This year I'd like a million dollars and a PS5?
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chupacabraTERROR posted:I’m Lake Butte It's a Butte, Clarke 
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What confused me as a kid were towns that had an 'Upper' and 'Lower' part, with the upper part on a lil hill or something. With the Upper part of town being lower on the map (further south) than the Lower part.
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It's easy to think of Japan as North-South but Japanese mostly refer to the southernmost parts of Honshu as "West" Japan.
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So which country has the weirdest shape you reckon? I’d say Croatia, with the real long and narrow ones like Chile, the Gambia and Norway on second place. Fake edit: honorary mention goes to Namibia with the Caprivi strip
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JosefStalinator posted:It's easy to think of Japan as North-South but Japanese mostly refer to the southernmost parts of Honshu as "West" Japan. It's easy to forget how skewed the Americas are too. Lima's an hour ahead of NYC time-wise.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I like Central Stockholm because the southern part of it is called Söder(South)malm, the northern part Nord (North)malm and the eastern part Öster(guess)malm. Makes orientation trivial of you know vaguely in what direction each district is. And when Old Town was new, and the city was still just only that island, they called it City Island.
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The projection throws this off a touch but I think this puts my ancestral village roughly 150 miles to the east of where I am now.
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System Metternich posted:So which country has the weirdest shape you reckon? I’d say Croatia, with the real long and narrow ones like Chile, the Gambia and Norway on second place. Palestine
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Palestine's borders are extremely normal 
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France has a strange shape because its overseas territories are not legally distinct from the hexagon.
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Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan are all fairly normal except where they all meet up in the Fergana Valley:
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Senegal is odd because it has The Gambia snuck in the middle of it. The US is pretty strange due to having Alaska-- a huge territory far from its borders. Ditto Denmark, I suppose. India isn't very pretty. 
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Greenland and Denmark is more like Puerto Rico and the US than Alaska as Greenland is a colony with limited self rule rather than an integral part of Denmark in the same way Alaska us to the USA.
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Or like Alaska before 1959.
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Greenland is it's own thing, it's not part of the EU. Also, I think there's more issues of colonization than Alaska, given that the majority of the population is actually indigenous people, and they are running the country (at the mercy of Denmark) mostly. As for borders, the completely straight lines in Africa are still weird as gently caress. I think Libya and Tunisia should get their poo poo together and turn them into some calligraphy that would be visible on the country outline.
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The weird bit of Namibia that sticks out almost all the way to Zimbabwe and misses forming the world's only four-point border by a few meters is a lot of fun
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