Return of Horrible Educational Maps

Gokbay

Gokbay

Frank Hart said:
In which Bulgaria drains the Black Sea.
Also, Pink Note Portuguese Africa, Mittelafrika, Austria-Poland, and Footprint of Mussolini Italy (screaming in Slovenian).
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Bulgarian annexation of Black Sea is balanced out by Greece-Turkey-Transcaucasia-Caspian-Turkestan
 
Albidoom

Albidoom

Frank Hart said:
In which Bulgaria drains the Black Sea.
Also, Pink Note Portuguese Africa, Mittelafrika, Austria-Poland, and Footprint of Mussolini Italy (screaming in Slovenian).
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Gokbay said:
Bulgarian annexation of Black Sea is balanced out by Greece-Turkey-Transcaucasia-Caspian-Turkestan
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It is a long standing tradition of bad map makers that you can include national borders in your maps, but you don't have to include all of them.

related:

badinterlakens.jpg
 
Albidoom

Albidoom

How to depict time zones:

-take a world map
-divide it into 24 same sized slices
-apply GMT to the slice that contains Britain and set up the other slices accordingly

badtime.jpg


Not related but also on topic the Time Zones Alignment chart:

badmapalignmentchat.png
 
Aghasverov

Aghasverov

FancyHat said:
I was concerned for a moment that there were two Svalbards, but fortunately it's just that there are a couple of these stacked on top of each other. What's more worrying is the airline routes(?) with endpoints in the middle of the sea or the Sahara desert.
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Ummm... yeah. What airline was responsible for this atrocity again? Not that I plan on flying anytime soon (I'm like Stalin in that regard), but it'd be good to know...
 
Aghasverov

Aghasverov

Albidoom said:
At least those do have endpoints. There is a bunch of thin lines going from London over southern Sweden into Finland... and then just fading out there.

Unfortunately reddit didn't give any information of what that map is about or from where it hailed, so what those black lines and dots are even meant to represent we have zero clue.

Anyways, have some fries:

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Always thought Bulgaria got sort of cheated after the 2nd Balkan War, but draining and annexing the Black Sea seems a little extreme :p
 
DaniCBP

DaniCBP

Albidoom said:
How to depict time zones:

-take a world map
-divide it into 24 same sized slices
-apply GMT to the slice that contains Britain and set up the other slices accordingly

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Apart from the big fail of the timezones, someone please explain me what the f*** is that "sea" that goes from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Also, why is the Black sea connected to the Caspian?
 

naraht

Other than the significant distortions, and wondering whether the FUSSR republics should be there, isn't there something wierd with Serbia's borders?
 

naraht

Etruscan-enthusiast35 said:
The further from Brussels you get, the worse it becomes.
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Two things jump out in the Balkans.
1) It actually looks like Bosnia has a seacoast. Everything south of Neum is Bosnia.
2) Definite Albania-wank. Looks like Albania contains Kosovo, additional Southern Serbia and probably every other area in the Balkans with 10 speakers in the Albanian language families ended up in Albania.
 
Albidoom

Albidoom

Jeremak said:
Hold your horses here. Weren't this posted not so long ago on AH.com as a alternate history poster/flyer, with whole backstory?
www.deviantart.com

[SLI] The European Confederation, 2059 by MarsBy2024OrBust on DeviantArt

www.deviantart.com www.deviantart.com
Here it is: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/map-thread-xx.492239/page-190#post-21441776
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Ah, my bad, I seen it on reddit and that is remarkably bad at citing sources.
So it is a map from an ATL setting, I'll remove it from my post, thanks for clearing that up.
 

LoneWolfEkb

Gaze at the goings-on in the timeline and despair.

Historic Borders

Visualize country borders from different times in history (123,000 BC - 1994)
historicborders.vercel.app

In fact, I'm surprised these mappers got anything right at all, given the evident sloppiness and coding errors.
 
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Crazy Boris

Crazy Boris

Banned
LoneWolfEkb said:
Gaze at the goings-on in the timeline and despair.

Historic Borders

Visualize country borders from different times in history (123,000 BC - 1994)
historicborders.vercel.app

In fact, I'm surprised these mappers got anything right at all, given the evident sloppiness and coding errors.
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Some things that stand out to me that no one's mentioned yet:

Is it just me or does the 2000 BC map imply Australian Aborigines came from the Indus Valley civilization and ancient Ecuadorians settled in Shikoku?

Also, Roman Empire in Thrace in 200 BC?

Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Trinidad in 800? Australia, Taiwan, and New Zealand in 1279? There are other countries appearing way too early too. also Antarctica and Africa are labelled as countries at certain points

"Seljuk Caliphate"

1492: Sultanate of Delhi.... in Assam

1530: Bornu colony in Bioko?

1650: French Alaska

1783: Bhutan can into China

The USA randomly changes color between 1783 and 1815? And what's with the giant Rwanda and Burundi around the same time?

Shoutout to Venezuelan Amazon and Greek Albania in 1880

I guess 1945 was the Year of Africa instead of 1960

why are all the colonies seperate colors from the ruling country?

Also, lots of my least-favorite thing ever, just putting "X city states" or "X kingdoms" instead of actually showing the countries. I can forgive it sometimes, but on a map where you can infinitely zoom in, "too small" isn't an excuse.

And this is just scratching the surface
There's so, so much wrong with this in every single map
I thought Geacron was bad, but this is on a whole other level, I don't know whether to laugh or scream
 
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