I know it seems like it would get boring, but I always find myself enthralled with maps.
I was just sitting here thinking about how crazy it is that I could walk from North Korea to Norway and only pass through one other country. I love finding things like that. Too bad I didn't spend more time studying geography. Maybe it could have been a career instead of something I do to put off work ;)
lol, I thought I might be the only one. I love looking at atlases, Google maps, etc. I think it's kind of nerdy, but I've always been like that.
I love them too.
Yes. Looking at a road atlas is a great way to make it thru a boring ride.
Also, google earth is fun, in that you can zoom in close enough to nearly see individual blades of grass :-)
thejeff wrote:
Yes. Looking at a road atlas is a great way to make it thru a boring ride.
Also, google earth is fun, in that you can zoom in close enough to nearly see individual blades of grass :-)
Only certain areas. For instance, Google knows better than to let you zoom in too close on areas such as the West Point area of Monrovia, Liberia.
Kind of Scary wrote:
Only certain areas. For instance, Google knows better than to let you zoom in too close on areas such as the West Point area of Monrovia, Liberia.
It is mainly for your safety. They don't want to be responsible should some RPG come flying through your computer screen.
I also like to read the "fine print" on contracts. For example, if you rent a car, the rental jacket comes with reams of contract language in tiny print. I've read that text many times. Maybe a bit of OCD in us?
Always loved maps for no logical reason.
Must be genetic, my six year old daughter will spends hours reading a road atlas.
Yes, and it comes in handy when I want to run some random new running loop. I ponder many options and have come up with some really cool places to run without having to travel too far from where I live.
Me too. Loved globes and atlases as a kid, and spend tons of free time on google earth, google maps, mapmyrun, etc. as an adult.
YES!!!! wrote:
I also like to read the "fine print" on contracts. For example, if you rent a car, the rental jacket comes with reams of contract language in tiny print. I've read that text many times. Maybe a bit of OCD in us?
No. Unless you're a paid attorney, you are the only one on this one.
There was this conspiracy theory guy on the radio the other day who wasn't convinced that the earth was round. Saying we were all being fooled and just believed what the government was telling us.
He said the UN flag depicted the true flat map of the earth.
http://www.isawthelightministries.com/UNflag.jpg
Satellite pictures of the globe are fake.
I f*cking love maps! I spend way too much time looking at google maps and the wiki pages of various cities.
Disagree9 wrote:
YES!!!! wrote:I also like to read the "fine print" on contracts. For example, if you rent a car, the rental jacket comes with reams of contract language in tiny print. I've read that text many times. Maybe a bit of OCD in us?
No. Unless you're a paid attorney, you are the only one on this one.
I guess that's not too hard to believe.
you might enjoy playing GeoGuessr then. It is a google maps game that randomly plops you down in street view somewhere. And you wander around the street view until you find some clues that will give you an idea where you are, then you guess on the world map. The closer you get, the more points you get.
Caffed Up wrote:
how crazy it is that I could walk from North Korea to Norway and only pass through one other country.
You could row a boat from NK to Norway without passing through any other countries at all!
I love looking at maps of where I have ran - like after I have uploaded the data from my GPS watch. I may have done the run so many times before but every time I look at the map anyway. It's just cool to me.
Hard for me to care about maps of places I have not been or will not go to though.
I'm the same way. I can spend hours with an atlas. Do you see the map in your head when you are driving distances? I actually orient mentally where I am on the map.
Stagger Lee wrote:
I'm the same way. I can spend hours with an atlas. Do you see the map in your head when you are driving distances? I actually orient mentally where I am on the map.
Same here for all of the above. I love Strava heatmaps (the individual one) as well: you can see where in the world you have actually run or where you have run the most. I actually go out of my way to run new routes so I can see them on my heatmap. Or I take the train or let someone drop me off so I can run point-to-point and cover more area on the map.
Someone once told me that it's a (very light) form of autism: The order and the neatness of maps is appealing and a nice contrast with the chaotic reality sometimes.
And thanks for mentioning GeoGuessr: Fun stuff!
