Return of Horrible Educational Maps

Aghasverov

Aghasverov

Albidoom said:
Now since I had posted several WWI maps now have one that shows Europe after the First World War:

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Yeah I had no idea there were Romanian irredentist claims on Transcarpathian Ruthenia, Slovakia, possibly some of Moravia (hard to tell, the map's so poorly drawn :p)
Nice to see though that the Austrians and the Czechs were able to work things out and stick together (always thought it was possible :) ).
Sweden and Norway are in the same colour, so I assume they're still in the personal union... congratulations to Catalunya for obtaining autonomy... and what's the status of East Prussia? :p
 
Aghasverov

Aghasverov

Epsilon Tauri said:
Corsica is also... Independent? A British Protectorate?
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OMG I didn't even notice that one...
Ah well... we all know nothing important ever happens on Corsica...
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Gokbay

Gokbay

Comte de Dordogne said:
Why do so many textbooks have such poor maps?
On AH alone you can find hundreds of people who can provide much better work for free.
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So much so that at least one textbook has actually accidentally used an AH map at some point.

Edit: apparently the book was Danish.
 
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Aghasverov

Aghasverov

Comte de Dordogne said:
Why do so many textbooks have such poor maps?
On AH alone you can find hundreds of people who can provide much better work for free.
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Some of 'em on this thread, I think I might could provide better work scribbling on a napkin sitting in a restaurant :p
Honestly I think textbook quality has declined in general over the years... I have a small collection of old history textbooks, ranging between the 1920's and 1960's, and not only were the maps better in nearly all cases, but the text itself was better too than what I remember from grade school/high school... not necessarily politically unbiased, but just better-written...
 
Comte de Dordogne

Comte de Dordogne

Gokbay said:
So much so that at least one textbook has actually accidentally used an AH map at some point.

Edit: apparently the book was Danish.
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I remember, it was a Danish textbook that in 2016 took a map from Deviantart about a bigger victory of the USSR after the Second World War.
Even I, who was still a history novice at the time, noticed the mistake.

Aghasverov said:
Some of 'em on this thread, I think I might could provide better work scribbling on a napkin sitting in a restaurant :p
Honestly I think textbook quality has declined in general over the years... I have a small collection of old history textbooks, ranging between the 1920's and 1960's, and not only were the maps better in nearly all cases, but the text itself was better too than what I remember from grade school/high school... not necessarily politically unbiased, but just better-written...
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I notice the same thing with French history textbooks. What I find disturbing is that this seems to be a worldwide phenomenon.
We should create an association: "the Defenders of fair and honest cartography". 😛
 
BlazingRoman

BlazingRoman

Albidoom said:
As far as bad WWI maps go, have here a (thankfully?) somewhat blurry one:

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I know this program, Edgenuity I believe it's called. One of my two schools uses it.

On another note, my school also uses Chromebooks for Edgenuity. Makes me wonder whether the person who made this picture was taken by someone who attended my school, either a teacher or student ... 🤔 (the odds are pretty low but that's just an interesting thought I had.)
 
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Aghasverov

Aghasverov

BlazingRoman said:
I know this program, Edgenuity I believe it's called. One of my two schools uses it.

On another note, my school also uses Chromebooks for Edgenuity. Makes me wonder whether the person who made this picture was taken by someone who attended my school, either a teacher or student ... 🤔 (the odds are pretty low but that's just an interesting thought I had.)
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Well, at least you can't blame the Chromebook for the lousy map :p Other than that though, my sympathies! (used a Chromebook for a while, %&**#ing glorified email reader :perservingface:)
 
Albidoom

Albidoom

And now for a map that is obviously intended to be educational, it came with a few tasks attached:

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Admittedly apart from The Balkans™ It is not too bad (the Danish-German Border might be a bit odd and South Tyrol seems to have developed the urge to hug Switzerland) but like so many maps it is The Balkans™ that the map maker couldn't quite find the right borders...
 
Frank Hart

Frank Hart

Albidoom said:
And now for a map that is obviously intended to be educational, it came with a few tasks attached:

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Admittedly apart from The Balkans™ It is not too bad (the Danish-German Border might be a bit odd and South Tyrol seems to have developed the urge to hug Switzerland) but like so many maps it is The Balkans™ that the map maker couldn't quite find the right borders...
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In this case it appears that Serbia now has an Adriatic coast, moving Montenegro away. Otherwise, the borders are serviceable.
 
Albidoom

Albidoom

Frank Hart said:
In this case it appears that Serbia now has an Adriatic coast, moving Montenegro away. Otherwise, the borders are serviceable.
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Romania is also badly out of shape (western Moldavia should be smaller than Wallachia but on this map it is significantly larger) and Austria-Hungary has a severe case of spilling into Ukraine. I admit the rest are okay if a bit wonky, but still combined with the task to correctly locate Sarajevo the wonky-ness of the borders is a bit more severe than it would be without that task.
 
Gokbay

Gokbay

Albidoom said:
Romania is also badly out of shape (western Moldavia should be smaller than Wallachia but on this map it is significantly larger) and Austria-Hungary has a severe case of spilling into Ukraine. I admit the rest are okay if a bit wonky, but still combined with the task to correctly locate Sarajevo the wonky-ness of the borders is a bit more severe than it would be without that task.
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I suppose you get points as long you put the star somewhere in Bosnia
 
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