30 Unusual Maps People Shared On This Group That Might Change Your Perspective On Things
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For many of us, cartography day in geography or history class meant a quick nap. With our eyes open, we’d dream of all the delicious stuff we were gonna eat after school, of music we’d play on the Walkman, of a message we received the other day from that cutie…
To bring back our long-lost excitement for hard pieces of data, aka maps, plans, and geographic drawings, we're gonna need to start from the very best of them. Luckily, there’s a whole online community on Reddit dedicated to the most unusual charts of geographic areas that took maps to a whole new level.
From mapping "October" in European languages to mapping an eagle’s track over a period of twenty years, these incredible examples will surely put the world into a completely new perspective.
Who knows, you may well unleash your inner cartographer and become among 1.1 million like-minded members of the maps subreddit. In that case, you may need some more cartographical goodness with 41 maps that portray lesser-known facts about America.
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To find out more about this amusing Reddit community by the name r/MapP**n, Bored Panda reached out to its creator Patrick McGranaghan, who started the subreddit in 2011 while living in Taiwan.
Patrick said he has always been a map geek: “I wanted people to share those maps so that they are easy to find and discuss.”
It turns out, he works as a land surveyor in Colorado and is a devoted member of several map societies across the nation, including the North American Cartographic Information Society, Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps, and Rocky Mountain Map Society, to name just a few.
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Okay, mind blown; it's literally twice as big as I'd imagined given typical maps. Thank you, person who made it!
The creator said that the title r/MapP**n followed the trend on Reddit at the time when “there were a lot of subreddits with a *-porn suffix.” He explained further: “This refers to pictures of innocuous things like nature, architecture, or engineering marvels in a beautiful way. It was not meant to be sexual. The internet at the time was a lot more relaxed and using that term was funny.”
“In the years since the culture on the internet has taken a much more puritan bias and some people don't like that name,” Patrick said.
However, he assured us that “the goal of the brand has not changed, though: it's a place to share and discuss beautiful maps.”
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When it comes to submissions, they come in every form and style. “From historical maps showing ancient borders, to funny memes and transit maps. People also post imaginary maps of places that they create in their minds.”
In fact, every kind of map imaginable has been posted to this subreddit. Patrick said that linguistic maps are popular, as well as maps that re-imagine state and national borders. There are also maps of asteroids and maps of routes of famous explorers.
“One of my favorite interactions is when a map is posted of an obscure place and someone in the comments says they live there or has a story about that place.”
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Wow, I never knew this. Unlikely Jesus was fair skinned, blond and blue eyed....
Patrick concluded that “Maps are a way to visualize the world in a way that is easy to grasp. They are an aid in learning about new lands and faraway places. They help us find our way when we are lost.”
Especially in a time like now, “when the pandemic prevents us from traveling, maps are a way that we can travel without leaving our home,” the map enthusiast said.
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And now add another segment going over the Gibraltar and all across Africa to South Africa; And another one linking New York to Chile! Wouldn't that make for an awesome World Tour!
there is one, from the west coast. The Pan-American route is a network of roads that start in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska and from there travel south through both North America and South America until it's ending point in Ushuaia, Argentina.
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What an amazing thig it would be if I could catch a train in NY and end up in London without having to fly!!!
Sounds like a line in a country song. Ride my truck from NY to London 6 days a week only to find my wife be a cheat and my dogs done dead!
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issue is rail lines in US are old as s**t, and not intended for fast travel. We have no intention in upgrading it either if anything our rail lines have decreased over time not increased.
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Oh sure just ignore that the majority of the north american route would have been in Canada but we will still call it a Europe-US highway and not north america
I thought it was because of where it begins and where it ends, thus not mentioning Asia. So just call it England-US or London-NY, well...
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Kinda glad, given the state of our relations, that this didn't happen. It is a supremely cool idea, however.
A Railway A2A is underway to connect Alaska to the main Canadian/US rail network. The transiberian is going from western europe to vladivostok. Let's built the Vladivostok - Nome part, and we're good ! Far better than a highway.
I'll get downvoted more, but... No. Has anyone looked at the history of Russia's treatment of its neighbors? Ones it can invade by land? EEK!
That's the Russian government. The Russians, at least the ones I've met, are quite nice and friendly.
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Now, that would be cool. I'd take it, if I had the money and the time.
How would they build such a rail line over continuous permafrost in Sakha and Chukotka, or even over discontinuous permafrost in Interior and Western Alaska or Zabaykalsky Krai?
It would be very difficult to do since all Chukotka and Sakha is continuous permafrost, whilst Interior and Western Alaska are mostly discontinuous permafrost.
Can you imagine being able to drive across the world?! Why TF didn't they approve this? This is so much more beneficial than going to space.
It would have been useless, considering much of it in Russia is just wilderness.
Would the portion that stretches across to Nome be undewater? I am being totally serious.
Imagine all the defectors!!! Would they make it across? or would they mysteriously go overboard over the Bering Sea??
Wow, only 89 km between Alaska and Russia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_crossing
What an amazing idea! But the maintenance would be a serious challenge, since much of the highway would go through very, very cold regions where frost-heaving and potholes would be a challenge. And all that asphalt! Maybe a railroad along the same route would be a vetter idea, though crossing the Aleutian Islands might be better done by ferry—depending on the season. Still, this is thinking big!
That would probably take about 13 hours on the train and in car about 3 days.
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