Return of Horrible Educational Maps
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Crazy Boris
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well, that's one way to solve the crisis
Russia gets one, Ukraine gets one, everyone's happy
Always thought what the Austro-Hungarian Empire needed was some Bulgarians
Hey, the more ethnic groups, the merrier, right? 🤔
With an equator that runs through Havana. And what the *bleep* did they do the Antarctica.
There are several good projections for portraying one hemisphere within a circle.... this... whatever it is
, is NOT one of them....Count the lines of latitude. The equator isn't shown as a line. It would run roughly from Los Angeles to Cape Hatteras.
Oh nice, the equator goes almost straight through the Gibraltar Strait. Also, "Western Sharah" and a tiny island in the Atlantic called Liechtenstein. And, while I would call any modern use of Mercator projection horrible, overlaying it on a globe is a special crime.
But that whole site is a collection of horrible maps, including this ugly equal-area projection, "updated last 2017", but where's South Sudan and Kosovo? The link to a map to "help to educate children and other corporate people" is unfortunately dead, but there's still this "North Kore Location map and Guam location map on globe":
Crazy Boris
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Ah yes, the Territery of Guam. Important to note that it’s a territery and not a stote.Oh nice, the equator goes almost straight through the Gibraltar Strait. Also, "Western Sharah" and a tiny island in the Atlantic called Liechtenstein. And, while I would call any modern use of Mercator projection horrible, overlaying it on a globe is a special crime.
But that whole site is a collection of horrible maps, including this ugly equal-area projection, "updated last 2017", but where's South Sudan and Kosovo? The link to a map to "help to educate children and other corporate people" is unfortunately dead, but there's still this "North Kore Location map and Guam location map on globe":
Almost every single interwar textbook i have had has "East Prussia" labeled as a separate entity rather than a German Exclave
that might be dependent on how the maps are being portrayed--are they in full color, or just outlines? (this was the only real problem i had with the selective representation on UCS, since it could make a non-contiguous country which didn't have a color look like it represented more countries than actually exist)
Crazy Boris
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I remember when I was younger and just starting learning about history I assumed East Prussia had to be a country at some point because I’d heard it referred to as if it was one before. I can’t remember exactly what I thought, like, when it would have been or under what circumstances it would be separated from West Prussia, but it made sense to me
East Prussia was a country at some point (Duchy of Prussia). It was separated from West Prussia because Polish Kings took over that.