Posted October 19, 20195 yr Random topic for geography stuff. Found these maps which show the true size of countries versus the Mercator projection. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 19, 20195 yr Author "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 19, 20195 yr No wonder Trump wants Greenland and does Putin's bidding. They're "yuge" Edited October 19, 20195 yr by GCrites80s
October 19, 20195 yr I pretty much use Google Earth for all my geographic needs these days. No projection issues!
October 19, 20195 yr When I grew up we always had a globe in the house, I played with it all the time. Now, I haven't seen a globe in years. Do classrooms still have them? I saw a great antique one at auction years ago but it sold for > $600
October 23, 20195 yr On 10/19/2019 at 3:19 PM, Ram23 said: When I grew up we always had a globe in the house, I played with it all the time. Now, I haven't seen a globe in years. Do classrooms still have them? I saw a great antique one at auction years ago but it sold for > $600 Same. My grandparents had a really fancy, freestanding one you'd put in the corner of a study. Every time I visited them, I would spin it. Every time I would eventually get my fingers caught.
October 23, 20195 yr good thread and oh geez that is a jaw-dropping map. here is another -- the mediterranean over the usa.
October 23, 20195 yr Takeaway: The Med is much bigger than I thought. Italy is much smaller. So weird!
October 23, 20195 yr 1 hour ago, mrnyc said: good thread and oh geez that is a jaw-dropping map. here is another -- the mediterranean over the usa. People don't get that most of Europe is WAY further north than the bulk of the Lower 48. Or that Cleveland is further south than some of the Mediterranean coast. Or that LA is at roughly the same latitude as Atlanta, and how much further south Miami is than San Diego.
October 23, 20195 yr Another fun one is that the Northwest Territory states, when counted as one land mass and population, are almost exactly the same as California in both statistical columns.
October 23, 20195 yr Completely unrelated to anything posted yet...Upper Michigan needs to become it's own state. *and I also have a nice old globe in a walnut stand that is about 35 years old. Still has the old Soviet Union on it and everything. Got it as an Xmas gift before there was the internet and all. Gawd I am old. Edited October 23, 20195 yr by Toddguy
December 11, 20195 yr This guy took 5 whole years to hand-draw a map of North America. North America: Portrait of a Continent is drawn completely by hand with colour pencil and pen. It is a 5 x 4 feet (150 x 120 cm) perspective projection of the entire region, spanning from Alaska to Panama; Greenland to the Caribbean. There are tens of thousands of features, including 600 individual cities and towns. https://www.antonthomasart.com/the-north-american-continent.html
December 12, 20195 yr Author I mean, props to THAT! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 2, 2024Sep 2 Trinidad was a Polish colony a couple of times in the 17th Century. Remember: It's the Year of the Snake
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