tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post3419512999416561473..comments2024-03-19T05:28:00.356-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: How to Lose a Country, or The Atlas GameLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-33843302573111001982020-02-28T08:56:36.416-05:002020-02-28T08:56:36.416-05:00Rob, great sketch.
Barb, that may be some of my ...Rob, great sketch. <br />Barb, that may be some of my fascination with maps, too - how do I get out of here? Or, how did I get here?<br />Lawrence, I used to be navigator for my father, who had the worst sense of direction ever. He used Triple AAA maps, the ones with the green highlighted route, and he would STILL get lost. So I learned my way around local, state, and national maps early.<br />Leigh, thanks for the info about Google. And bogus street names... Wow.Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-14415101689587386542020-02-27T20:09:04.121-05:002020-02-27T20:09:04.121-05:00Wow. I'm glad someone's paying attention.
...Wow. I'm glad someone's paying attention.<br /><br />I can offer two other bits of map trivia. Some map publishers add in anomalies such as a bogus street name. They do this deliberately in case a completing cartographer plagiarizes their work.<br /><br />If a local area suddenly sprouts a new name, Google might be responsible. When they can't identify a neighborhood, they might ask the first person they see for a name or they might pull a name from a street sign. That happened to a nearby neighborhood here. Not knowing what to call it, Google apparently named it Fairview Shores after the shortest street in the area, a street just a few feet long.Leigh Lundinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-55350917078801194382020-02-27T19:08:17.827-05:002020-02-27T19:08:17.827-05:00A terrific read. I love maps too, Eve. I especiall...A terrific read. I love maps too, Eve. I especially like old maps of LA. Before the internet took over you had to have a Thomas Guide if you didn’t want to get lost in the great LA sprawl. The TG was a Brittanica sized book of LA street maps, and they made driving kinda fun. Miss em!Lawrence Maddoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03057386966178865691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-15693665745992670172020-02-27T15:14:23.430-05:002020-02-27T15:14:23.430-05:00Wow. I also love looking at maps. Once, when I liv...Wow. I also love looking at maps. Once, when I lived somewhere I hated, I used to look at the map of the state, of all the roads leading out of there to my future, somewhere out there. Barb Goffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16013123434790272424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-20542024960414265452020-02-27T11:11:35.469-05:002020-02-27T11:11:35.469-05:00As a recovering map librarian I love this. I lso ...As a recovering map librarian I love this. I lso want to boost this hilarious sketch which is mentioned in one of the articles you link to: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2018/may/02/off-the-map-new-zealand-tourism-ad-takes-on-conspiracy-videoRobert Loprestihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08844889305615182897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-33369817834249280122020-02-27T09:35:22.454-05:002020-02-27T09:35:22.454-05:00O'Neil, I took geography in school, too. I re...O'Neil, I took geography in school, too. I remember the fateful year (sometime in the 60s) when we'd just learned all the countries and capitals in Africa - and then a handful changed. We were so mad... but we were snotty jr. high, so what else is new?<br />Thanks Janice, John, Paul.<br />One other thing I noticed, just now - China also swallowed up a big chunk of Kazakhstan! Something is definitely brewing...Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-41013654580297943152020-02-27T08:56:32.679-05:002020-02-27T08:56:32.679-05:00Fascinating! I too love maps, always have. Great...Fascinating! I too love maps, always have. Great column, Eve.John Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001712728130488485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-84520849203938555062020-02-27T08:30:32.077-05:002020-02-27T08:30:32.077-05:00I find maps interesting, too. And use them a lot w...I find maps interesting, too. And use them a lot while researching things I'm writing. But I have to wonder if it was on purpose or not that most of those places you mentioned were left off. Tibet for sure was on purpose. I wonder about the others.Paul D. Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15466234708772287399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-19140559382064392672020-02-27T08:11:41.129-05:002020-02-27T08:11:41.129-05:00A fresh and enlightening look at maps. Who knew th...A fresh and enlightening look at maps. Who knew they could be so prophetic!janice Lawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-89611652315821148752020-02-27T07:37:58.319-05:002020-02-27T07:37:58.319-05:00Interesting. I've always been fascinated with ...Interesting. I've always been fascinated with maps ever since I started studying maps in junior high and high school classes during boring lessons in classes I could not pay attention in - Spanish, Geometry and any other math class. We studied geography in school when I was young but not today. Mant young people have no idea where countries are located and cannot locate them on a map. Many don't know the difference between a country and a city. Africa is not a county.<br /><br />Nice posting.O'Neil De Nouxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03142721824657611738noreply@blogger.com