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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 05/23/2020 at 11:30 • Filed to: None

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InFierority Complex > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 11:33

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It’s almost like things are relative, sometimes.

CB > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 11:36

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Americans are the centre of the universe, more news at 11.

SiennaMan > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 11:38

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It’s even more fun if you think about how, arguably, Australia and New Zealand are a part of “the west” even though they are due south of the countries that are the heart of “the e ast”..

ttyymmnn > InFierority Complex 05/23/2020 at 11:43

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It has a lot to do with when those terms were first coined.

ttyymmnn > CB 05/23/2020 at 11:44

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Do classroom maps in Europe and Asia show those continents in the center of the map? It would only make sense.

ttyymmnn > SiennaMan 05/23/2020 at 11:45

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Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 11:48

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I’m actually offended if someone says Montana is the Midwest. Does this look like Iowa to you asshole?

CB > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 11:49

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I have no idea.

I also haven't looked at a classroom map in at least eight years (at least, a world map, I see maps of Canada all the time).

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 11:49

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It’s because those concepts came before Europe discovered the new world. On a Eurasia-centered map east-west makes sense

ttyymmnn > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 05/23/2020 at 11:55

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Exactly. 

BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 05/23/2020 at 12:21

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People really think of Montana as Midwest? It’s literally directly above CO and NM. People are dumb. 

Khalbali > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 12:23

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When I delivered pizzas in college it was even worse. It was a twin-city situation and campus was split between them, so in our delivery area the “west” streets were to the east and the “east” streets were to the west, the store was lit erally right on the dividing line between the two towns.

ttyymmnn > BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind 05/23/2020 at 12:29

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#Never Forget

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 12:29

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The map is incorrect. Everyone knows that the   earth is flat and you fall off of it in the Pacific Ocean.

ttyymmnn > Khalbali 05/23/2020 at 12:31

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In Abilene, TX, the streets are divided n orth and s outh by the train tracks, and e ast and w est by Pine Street. Then, the streets are numbered in ascending order north and south of the tracks. All of this makes possible addresses like East North 10th Street. It makes sense, of course, but takes a bit to get used to it. 

Thomas Donohue > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 12:32

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Jb boin > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 12:46

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In here, t he planisphè res are usually presented this way :

And a mappemonde would be like that :

ttyymmnn > Jb boin 05/23/2020 at 12:58

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As terrible as the Mercator projection is for correctly representing the comparative size of the landmasses, that Euro-centric  layout is significantly better than putting North America in the center, since it doesn’t split Asia in two. I rather like this one, the AuthaGraph projection by Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa.

This is hands-down the most accurate map projection in existence. In fact, AuthaGraph World Map is so proportionally perfect, it magically folds it into a three-dimensional globe.

Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa invented this projection in 1999 by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles. These triangles were then projected onto a tetrahedron, which not only helped maintain the proportions of land and water, but also helped to unfold the map into a perfect, flat rectangle. Narukawa, however, insists that if the map is refined a step further to increase the number of subdivisions, its accuracy will improve and it can officially be called an area-equal map.

Nonetheless, AuthaGraph realistically represents all oceans and continents, including the neglected Antarctica. ( link )

Noodles > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 12:58

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Hey, you fixed it.

ttyymmnn > Noodles 05/23/2020 at 13:01

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I was first introduced to that map in grad school by a good friend who was from New Zealand. Down Under had been renamed  Up Over.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 13:36

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That is purely because of your Americentric viewpoint. If you lived in Moscow it would make much more sense comrade. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 13:40

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Reminds me of dealing with addresses on the 610 loop in Houston. They refer to the segments of the loop as North, East, South, and West, and addresses by relative position to I-45 and I-10. The hotel I stayed at most often was on North Loop West, not to be confused with West Loop North which was just around the NW corner of the loop.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 13:40

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Wow someone took the tome to rotate all the labels 180 degrees 

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > SiennaMan 05/23/2020 at 13:41

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We think as north as up and south as down but it could be switched around and there would be no difference in our daily lives.

ttyymmnn > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/23/2020 at 13:44

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It all depends on where you start, and a (great) circle has no end. 

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 05/23/2020 at 13:45

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Yeah, that took a bit of getting used to for me, too. It makes sense, but is not immediately intuitive. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 14:01

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At first I thought it was tied to the direction of traffic or the side of the loop you were on. Then I saw an address on the North loop, West side, but on the south side of the freeway. I was expecting North Loop East (for eastbound since they talked about North Loop East all the time when discussing traffic ). I  found North Loop West. That one changed my whole frame of reference.

DipodomysDeserti > BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind 05/23/2020 at 14:13

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Parts of Colorado certainly feel like the midwest, culturally and visually. Just smells like petrochemicals instead of cow shit.

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 16:28

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If you put the center of the universe in Stockholm, it makes sense.

For Sweden > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 05/23/2020 at 16:29

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Ask a New Yorker to find Montana on a map and they will point to Iowa.

WilliamsSW > Khalbali 05/23/2020 at 16:39

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Was this Shampoo-Banana, IL?

SiennaMan > ttyymmnn 05/23/2020 at 18:38

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I wonder which would be harder for nost people to grapple with with this map, t he fact that it’s “upside down” or that it’s centered on Micronesia..

Khalbali > WilliamsSW 05/23/2020 at 20:01

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‘ Twas.

WilliamsSW > Khalbali 05/23/2020 at 20:18

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Who did you deliver for?  I drove for Garcia’s in about 1986, had a roommate that drove for Papa Dels.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > For Sweden 05/23/2020 at 20:43

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I can’t help it if people from New York are ignorant.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > DipodomysDeserti 05/23/2020 at 20:46

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Eastern Colorado certainly qualifies as does Nebraska and Kansas but Texas is west. Yes I’m confusing myself now.

Khalbali > WilliamsSW 05/23/2020 at 22:11

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I wasn’t even born yet lol, but I delivered for a ton of places, pita pit, ziggy’s, monicals, jimmy johns, some bagel place I don’t even remember the name of, Gumby’s for a while. I actually managed a jimmy johns on campus for a couple years, the headquarters are in Champaign so the re was a lot of career potential there.

DipodomysDeserti > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 05/23/2020 at 23:10

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If you have any sort of discernible culture or good food you’re considered “west”. Parts of Texas are definitely midwest.

I consider Montana and parts of Wyoming “southern Canada”. I love them, but mostly for the forests, bears and crazy geological stuff, not the food. Went up to Wyoming for the last solar eclipse, and Mexicans up there can’t even cook. Flagstaff seems to be the cutoff for culinary cutoff for Mexicans.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > DipodomysDeserti 05/23/2020 at 23:13

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Where I live is the Tijuana of Canada 

DipodomysDeserti > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 05/23/2020 at 23:31

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Based on our Canadian Oppo’s fear of south Asians, I feel like Canadian Tijuana looks like an upscale Phoenix suburb.