JCC Terr's Interesting Map Thread (Image Heavy)

Nah not Nationwide. Gillette is everywhere. Dunkin Donuts I'd never even seen until I went to MA. That's nowhere to be seen basically a ways past the east coast.

 

Plus, Gillette is worldwide. Admittedly, I've heard of Dunkin Donuts, but that's through movies. Whereas any convenience store has Gillette razors.

 

Here in RI, there's like 3 Dunkin Donuts per square mile, I've even seen 2 on the same block a couple of times here

 

Oh good, West Virginia's best-known brand sells cardboard pizzas. I feel so proud.

 

You think that's bad? California's best-known brand sells Apple products.

 

I'm still wondering about the regional divisions map. What in particular divides the Tidewater from the rest of the South? Speaking historically, anyway, the sort of oligarchic power wielded by families like the Randolphs and Byrnes was more or less identical to those seen in the Deep South. Not the least because they were all intentionally modeled on the same plantation economy and supporting societal structure.

 

I didn't realize countries other than Germany and Austria used the comma as the decimal mark.

That's weird, wild stuff.

 

I'd like to make an argument that our real best known brand is Google, though.

 

Yeah I'm guessing the map is a couple of years old.

 

Reports of Canadian pipeline safety incidents since 2000: http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/pipeline-incidents/

You swim in the Great Lakes at your own risk.

 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/adamellis/heres-what-happens-when-you-ask-people-to-draw-maps-of-the-u?bffb

Words cannot express how painful this is for me to look at.

 

The two people with "lax concept of geography" actually got the shape pretty accurate considering it's from memory.

 

Why? A lot of their jibes were stupid. For instance, the first one is pretty clearly trying to show Alaska as a separate, inset map, not a land-locked island in Canada with a square freshwater moat. Worse still, what was with the derision directed at the Four Corners? It's a well known geographic area, and no one ever claimed that they were supposed to be drawing a political map of the US.

 

For the sake of esprit de corps with the mother with a Ph.D. that they mock, I, as a Ph.D. student, have attempted a similar venture. I present here a map of the United States, drawn purely from my memory:



So, I dunno, I think she did pretty well, considering.

 

A set of maps for what the world would like if the polar ice sheets all melted

 

I see that Florida might go away entirely. Those people will have to move to other parts of the country.

...

GLOBAL WARMING MUST BE STOPPED!

 

This map series is fun, although I can identify a few problems with their Boston map:



1) East Boston is primarily Spanish-speaking, so the Portuguese doesn't make much sense there. Boston's sizable Portuguese and Brazilian communities are concentrated in other neighborhoods, especially East Cambridge and East Somerville.

2) The large portion of Boston proper that extends to the south of this map is excluded, meaning that neighborhoods like Jamaica Plain and Dorchester are unfortunately left out. Similarly, Somerville to the north is an integral part of the urban core but is also excluded.

3) "Bahstin Cahmin" is an incredibly poor phonetic approximation of the local pronunciation (unless it were spelled Barston Carmon!) If anything, "Bawston Cawmon" might evoke a more accurate vowel sound for most Americans, although it would bring to mind a higher/more closed vowel for most people living between Providence and Baltimore, or outside North America. The International Phonetic Alphabet would be helpful here.

4) "End of [the] Freedom [trail]" is all they could come up with for Charlestown? Lame.

5) The Departed reference for South Boston is also pretty stupid, as most Bostonians don't really associate Southie with the movies that exaggerate its long-faded "rough" image... something about gentrification would have been much more accurate.

 

In what sense do you mean? JP and Dorchester are both neighborhoods within the city of Boston, while Quincy is a separate city. If you're gonna include the city of Cambridge, it would be nice to at least include JP and Dot - they're not that far removed from downtown Boston. Now, I won't go so far as to insist on including Hyde Park and West Roxbury...

I guess I'm mostly just disappointed I didn't get to see the funny descriptions they could've come up with for JP.