LI Runner wrote:
Check out the site/Twitter feed of brilliantmaps.com
Love that site.
Also read a great book on the history and importance of maps, I'll get the name of it tonight.
Good stuff. Any news on that book?
LI Runner wrote:
Check out the site/Twitter feed of brilliantmaps.com
Love that site.
Also read a great book on the history and importance of maps, I'll get the name of it tonight.
Good stuff. Any news on that book?
Uzhorod wrote:
Finance Guy wrote:I have always been intrigued by the quirkiness of how borders are drawn and the history that lead to things like this Spanish "island" in France:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4651762,1.980982,13zCool. This is even more erratic: Bits of Belgium in The Netherlands.
https://www.google.nl/maps/@51.4243876,4.9103565,13z
Yeah it's marked out as white lines on the streets and sometimes the drinking laws at one bar are different from the one next door
Point Roberts is probably the strangest border predicament we have in the US
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.9811782,-123.0941482,11zAnd this library is split halfway between US/Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Free_Library_and_Opera_HouseHardLoper wrote:
Yeah it's marked out as white lines on the streets and sometimes the drinking laws at one bar are different from the one next door
Point Roberts is probably the strangest border predicament we have in the US
And fireworks salespoints in the Belgian parts everywhere!
Point Roberts looks nice. There are actual border crossings it seems. But then a little further it looks like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.0022049,-123.0887506,3a,55.6y,185.15h,80.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCukvXU2tWIYm1kQTvTkTNQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Catching map comments from summer of 2013 to today
No google streetview in the U.S. portion of Point Roberts. Hmmmm.
flagwonk wrote:
No google streetview in the U.S. portion of Point Roberts. Hmmmm.
If I wanted to supply Vancouver with crystal meth I would do it from Point Roberts.
Yes, I like maps.
I was surprised to see that Norway in the north wraps around the top of Sweden and Finland to touch Russia directly, cut the other Scandinavian states off of a major sea route, though probably ice-locked a good deal of the year, at least in the past. That arrangement must have been a subject of wars in the past, right?
I think everyone on this thread would be interested in the instagram account @dailyoverview .... I'm not being paid to promote them or anything, just thought it was super cool.
Check it out here:
I am not sure whether anyone has talked about this but the shortest distance between Africa and Europe is 14 kilometers.
The strait of Gibraltar.
I love studying maps too-the Atlas.
As i was studying the American map, I wondered whether there are any four states that meet (or share a border).
Utah, Colorado, New mexico, Arizona.
Africa too has its own four corners ........sort of.
Namibia , Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe.
http://www.leeabbamonte.com/africa/african-four-corners.html
There is also this photo of glacial water pouring into the open ocean.
https://www.adn.com/science/article/mythbusting-place-where-two-oceans-meet-gulf-alaska/2013/02/05/
I especially love maps when I am on vacation. They are really useful when you don't know which way to go.
I've noticed trail maps are much harder to find. Even after finding them the distances of the trail are different on every map.
"The Island of Lost Maps". Great true story of a map thief. Although I read it 15 years ago and don't remember much of it, I recall having a chapter on the historical significance of having accurate maps.Apologies for taking 13 months to reply.
JayRiemenschneider wrote:
LI Runner wrote:Check out the site/Twitter feed of brilliantmaps.com
Love that site.
Also read a great book on the history and importance of maps, I'll get the name of it tonight.
Good stuff. Any news on that book?
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.
No. I have to read EULAs for my job. It is quite shocking what is buried in an average click-through EULA.
That turned it into, not so much a hobby but anytime there's a new service of which I have an interest, I read the EULA looking for the ridiculous stuff.
Fine-detail trail maps are always awesome to look at. Lots and lots of work went into those.
I used to work on developing mapping software. It was great to be able to look at maps all day and get paid to do so. I really miss that work.
eFarmer wrote:
Is it considered cheating in GeoGuessr if you see a road sign and use that to place your guess?
Love this game. Find it interesting how some terrains 10s of thousands of miles apart can look so similar.
Yes I consider it "cheating" when I play against others. Love it and love the honor system.
https://geoguessr.com/challenge/nJbkOv3O7JNtRfdvWant to play? My honor rule is that you can only use the map to help you, no other resources. It is cool you start to learn languages. The Russian ones always kick my butt, guess I don't know that country too well.
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