Noisy Decent Graphics: This Isn’t England is a post about the liberties that mapmakers make when making maps. The little tangent about New Zealand cracks me up.
Tag Archives: maps
Traveler IQ Challenge
My world IQ isn’t high enough to tie my shoelaces, apparently. What’s yours?
Highway engineering pranks
I swear to God, every one of these fucking things is located in Longmont, Colorado. Either that or the bastards that drew the map I was using were high on crack. The map said that 3rd Street becomes Rt 119, but when you drive down 3rd street at 4:45 in the morning you discover that it pretty much dead ends at Rt 119, and then you have to guess, left or right to get to the airport? Bastards.
I haven’t thrown out the map yet — I’m planning to burn it.
Incredibly Simplified Interstate Map
This interstate map is pretty cool!
Moooooon.
Instructions for you to follow (today! I doubt this will last long!) updated so they still work!
- Click this header image that used to be Google’s header:
- Zoom in on the moon map, one click at a time.
- Observe the cheesy layer