Someone Just Pointed Out How Messed Up New Orleans Map Is And Now We Can’t Unsee It
Last week, James L. Sutter, a 34-year-old game designer, and author, took to Twitter to share his hilarious tongue-in-cheek critique on the real map of New Orleans.
Sutter, best known as the co-creator of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, an expansion to Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition, took a look at New Orleans maps as if it was a fantasy location, designed and submitted by a freelancer.
Playfully highlighting some seemingly nonsensical bridge placement on the funny map, and the fact that Lake Borgne doesn’t appear to be a lake at all, the cartography of Louisiana’s largest city was quickly picked apart by the author. He concluded that it is a really interesting map, but in the end, it’s just not believable. Please clean up your map drawing and resubmit when it follows the rules of a real-world city.
We guess that whoever designed the map for New Orleans was tripping on something, but doesn’t it look like an interesting place to go and check out? What can be cooler than a place that, according to Sutter, is stranger than fiction? Scroll down below to check out his critique and the cool images for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments!
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Last week, game designer James L. Sutter took to Twitter to share his critique on the real map of New Orleans
Sutter is best known as the co-creator of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
Having the expertise on fictional map creation, the author criticized it’s many seemingly nonsensical parts
Like this canal that is perfectly linear…
Or why is Lake Borgne called ‘lake’ when it’s technically a lagoon?
And then the placement of Lake Pontchartrain Causeway that expands for 24 miles (38km)?
Sutter elaborates on the texture of the swamps of Louisiana, pointing out that no cartographer would work on replicating it
While admitting that the design is quite interesting, James Sutter concludes that the map is simply not believable
He jokingly recommends the South to rework the map of New Orleans and resubmit it when it looks like a real city
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i used to have a fear of bridges spanning a large body of murky water...as a kid, i experienced sheer terror every time we had to traverse the insanely long Pontchartrain bridge or the Atchafalaya Basin bridge...it didn't help that my little brother would say " the bridge is going to fall" when we drove across it, either, the little sh*t 😄
As someone from New Orleans, I speak for all of us when we say that we refuse to resubmit any maps. Have you ever met anyone from this area? We are some of the most hard headed and stubborn people on the planet. Why do something easy when we could go batshit crazy and build a 24 mile bridge! This is also (probably) the only city in the country where you have to go east before you can go west (our roads are REALLY backwards). Also, a vast majority of the people here completely insane and we wouldn't have it any other way!
One too many coconuts to the head during Mardis Gras eh?
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i used to have a fear of bridges spanning a large body of murky water...as a kid, i experienced sheer terror every time we had to traverse the insanely long Pontchartrain bridge or the Atchafalaya Basin bridge...it didn't help that my little brother would say " the bridge is going to fall" when we drove across it, either, the little sh*t 😄
As someone from New Orleans, I speak for all of us when we say that we refuse to resubmit any maps. Have you ever met anyone from this area? We are some of the most hard headed and stubborn people on the planet. Why do something easy when we could go batshit crazy and build a 24 mile bridge! This is also (probably) the only city in the country where you have to go east before you can go west (our roads are REALLY backwards). Also, a vast majority of the people here completely insane and we wouldn't have it any other way!
One too many coconuts to the head during Mardis Gras eh?
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