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Hi! Glad to see u calling out other lazy map blogs for lack of context. I just finished grad school (Anthropology and GIS) Did u go to school for cartography/GIS/geography?

Thank you! And not at all! I’m a freshman music major!

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Countries where the capital is located in the North (Red) or South (Blue).

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Average hours of work needed to earn monthly rent (1 bedroom) in each US state.

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Bad map. Never specifies what unit of time it’s referring to. Is this “hours per week”? Or “hours per month”? Not including important data like this is lazy at best and misleading at worst.

#bad map

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Luxembourg is not a microstate.

Today I learned that Wyoming isn’t a perfect square and that messed with me.

#map #maps #wyoming #states #geography #cartography

It’s official. McDonald’s caused colonialism.

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Using your hands as a map is an integral part of the Michigander experience!

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You can walk in a straight line from Madrid to Shanghai without hitting a major body of water using Earth’s curvature.

The result of boredom in English class: my own hand drawn map

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United States Put Into Perspective.

Is it just me, or does mapsontheweb seem to have some funky political axes to grind?

I thought so too but I’m pretty sure most of their stuff is taken directly from reddit. Not sure if they’ve ever even made an original post, just snatch stuff off of reddit subs

You do know that that map of Korea was intended, right.

I’m aware. Apologies if my sarcasm was not well spoke