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it's really hosed up how the normal way to draw maps is like you're in space looking at the earth when all of the people writing them spend most of their time on the earth looking into space
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- Spanish Manlove
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HAILGAYSATAN
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If you zoom out far enough on google earth it will add a realistic sun effect and show which parts of the earth are currently experiencing daytime. Also it adds stars to the background and if you pan over to the part of the earth in night time you can see the sun.
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Nov 10, 2015 21:25
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at first it was good enough just to draw the earth and where things were, but then it got to the point where everyone could do it so if you wanted to be a respected cartographer you had to show off some how, i know geography so well i can draw it backwards
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Nov 10, 2015 21:28
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Peter, Robinson, Goode, and Homolosine in one room... hoo boy couldn't pay me to be there when that one goes off
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Nov 10, 2015 21:31
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HAILGAYSATAN
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I would like to see a map of the earth from the perspective of the earth's core
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Nov 10, 2015 21:35
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countries are always named after the first person to draw a map of it, like amerigo vespucci drew the first map of america, bob mexiconti drew the first map of mexico, etc
you can't even get into map drawing school unless you have a cool name
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Nov 10, 2015 21:37
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HAILGAYSATAN
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Tony Papua New Guinea must have been a cool dude.
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Nov 10, 2015 21:44
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One day nearer spring
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early maps are proof that aliens exist
I learned this from the history channel
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Nov 10, 2015 21:59
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early maps are proof that aliens exist
I learned this from the history channel
all these maps are drawn from really high up, how did they get up there huh?
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Nov 10, 2015 22:13
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they're called journeymen bc they have to travel the earth, smoothing dowm all the hills and filling in the canyons so that the land matches the maps they're making
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Nov 10, 2015 22:14
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When I'm running late I set my Google maps navigator for walking, but I drive so I feel early
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Nov 10, 2015 23:17
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Back in the '60s, during the Map Race with the Soviets, the US tried to enact in secret a charcoal rubbing of the entire Earth, but ol' Ivan used a space laser invented to give a perfect topography map to burn the paper whenever the gov't tried to make a rubbing.
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Nov 11, 2015 00:39
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Fire up the grill everyone eats tonight!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIIxlgcuQRU
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Nov 11, 2015 00:41
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the man in the moon was originally a story that cartographers told their children about a man who wanted to map so badly, but the earth is already mapped, so he became his own moon to map himself, giving up all his friends and family and leaving earth behind to do so, and about how you should always balance work and life, but all the meaning got lost when we appropriated it
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Nov 11, 2015 00:56
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it looks like I'm doing a bunch of cool measurements and calculations with this map but I'm really just trying to pick it up with chopsticks
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Nov 11, 2015 01:22
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not if its real big
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Nov 11, 2015 02:50
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it looks like I'm doing a bunch of cool measurements and calculations with this map but I'm really just trying to pick it up with chopsticks
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Nov 11, 2015 07:43
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Rand McNally is on a permanent road trip, calculating distances of cow paths and attempting to redraw interchanges and improvements in cities
or he was, until the Google street view car ran him off the road, stopped, shot him in the head Mexican cartel style, and drove off
Google maps, bitch
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Nov 11, 2015 15:08
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google earth is NOT the real earth
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Nov 11, 2015 15:33
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i kept trying to tilt my head to be parallel with the plane of the elliptic and then rotate earth but it was kinda difficult because it rotates everything and you keep having to shift your head.
Anyone passing by my office looking at me must have thought "oh, it's wednesday again."
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Nov 11, 2015 15:38
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Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
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all these maps are drawn from really high up, how did they get up there huh?
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Nov 11, 2015 16:46
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back before downloadable maps and GPS's people used to get lost on their way to the map store and vanish in a puff of irony
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Nov 11, 2015 17:01
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Tony Papua New Guinea must have been a cool dude.
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Nov 11, 2015 17:22
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back before downloadable maps and GPS's people used to get lost on their way to the map store and vanish in a puff of irony
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Nov 12, 2015 02:24
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I've been painting blue lines into the earth everywhere there's a state boundary drawn on the map. I'm 6/50ths done 
Thats 3 25ths
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Nov 12, 2015 20:06
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What have you assholes done now?
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the earth looks just like google maps from up here tho
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Nov 12, 2015 20:34
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they say pangaea broke up from techtonic shifts or whatever but really it was cartographers blowing it apart so they could be the first one to put out the new map
https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png
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Nov 12, 2015 20:37
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the king: i dont care that you threw a really big rock off the coast we're not putting out another drat new map
https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png
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Nov 12, 2015 20:39
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I don't trust cartographers, I plot my life's journeys on graph paper like I learned playing dnd as a child, and sometimes just for laughs I put little notations about orcs and dragons and stuff
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cartographer: here it is, all finished! the treasure map you commissioned!
me: it looks great!
cartographer: so, what kind of treasure did you bury there?
me: oh, uh, nothing really valuable. really.
cartographer: hmm...
me: (getting nervous) you know, mostly sentimental stuff.
cartographer: ah, probably stuff you'd hate to lose, huh?
me: well, that's not likely, there are a lot of, uh, traps around the treasure. really deadly, nigh undetectable traps. yeah.
cartographer: should I add those to the map?
me: no, listen, you know what? I just remembered somewhere I have to be. (runs out of the store, runs back in a few seconds later) right, the map. I'm going to need- I mean, how much do I owe you?
cartographer: how much do you have?
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