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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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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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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In the "australia" map.... that little pink line above the "L", is actually New Zealand - a totally separate country to "Australia" (although the Aussies & Kiwis do consider themselves like "siblings" ie we are staunch rivals within sports, but stick together in defense of eachother).
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The UK guy is the only walking towards the Polish guy. Or maybe he´s just coming home due to brexit :-)
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Yes every Berlin tourist gets stuff with them (mugs, Tshirts, ... ); I was looking for it on the map.
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I like the ones I saw in Vienna my last visit: neue-ampel...mbole3.jpg 
They have man/man, man/woman and woman/woman ones. So cute!
nope. they look like this only on red lights
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Wrong. Pedestrian crossings in Poland are marked with a different sign. In this photo it is accompanied by a sign used when a kindergarten is nearby. 1568963577...77787b.jpg 
What is the little girl holding... it looks like a giant toffee...
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In terms of Poland the correct sign we use to signalize pedestrians crossing is this: 1200px-Zna...6d-png.jpg 
I like the leisurely pace of the Norwegian. My kind of pedestrian! Just enjoying the fjords and letting others do the hurrying.
Anyone else notice the pedestrians are all male? How do women get around?
Haven't You seen the Victorian carriages where women used to be transported straight into the see to swim around? Walking is so not lady like! Filthy peasant!
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I think Poland is just confused again that's why he's just standing still.
The sign for pedestrian crossing has a walking person (and its code is D-6). The person here is from a sign thats states "No pedestrians allowed" (code B-41). Those usually stand in areas like tunnels for car traffic only etc.
Yeah, if you stand still, the polar bears won’t see you, that’s why we always stand still while outdoors in Poland.
Hmm, I'm guessing this doesn't refer to traffic lights but to traffic signs in general?
Not true for Germany. That's only the West German one, but the former East German one is still in use as well. And looks much cuter!
And here’s what it looks like around the U.S. southern border 2323.gif 
Can we all take a moment to appreciate Spain's pedestrian just gleefully skipping around?
Is the left or right facing to do with which side of the road the cars drive on and therefore which way you have to look first when crossing the road, or something?
In Slovakia and Czech Republic they sometimes have a small bowler hat.
Denmark has little Vikings https://www.instagram.com/p/CDOEezgAH_D/
poland just standing there like . . . while everone is tryna run from it
Does the direction they're walking in have anything to do with which side of the road they drive on? (And does that mean that Poland don't actually walk or drive anywhere? Do they teleport?)
The one for Poland is a stop on pedestrian crossing (red light). Whoever did this needs to do better research
Polish one is inaccurate, we use normal walking dude for signs.
We only use standing/walking on pedestrian street light (red-standing, green-walking)
attached pic is the sign: 1200px-Zna...78-png.jpg 
This is actually not true. In Poland we also have a sign with the walking guy.
Is there any significance to whether they are facing left, right or standing still?
Dunno if this's related but I once saw a sign nest to the highway in Hawaii that had emojis on the pedestrians faces... not stickers or paint, either... 🤨
I’m from Poland. I waiting for traffic lights about 10 or 15 minutes busy traffic.
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