A different perspective
A different perspective
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Fun fact: Whether North or South are "up" on a map is also completely arbitrary.
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They undercut the message buy putting upside down at the top.
I had a teacher in high school who always set his globe that had the text oriented to the nearest pole to have the south pole on top. Anyone switching it would start a conversation about how there isn't a 'correct' up direction.
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There is only a "correct" up direction if it has words. The "correct" up would be the direction of the letters.
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Or left right
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Should have rotated the other way so the sun scrolls satisfyingly top-to-bottom.
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Yeah, but European borders aren't
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Sure they are, they're fun to redraw too. I thought y'all loved doing that
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This looks like a fantasy world map wtf.
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It’s freaking me out!
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It makes as much sense as any other 2D projection of the globe.
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I like this one
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Maybe a little more than this one...
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In this map's defense, it really highlights the value of a northwest passage and all the canals.
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thank god I needed a map with an inverse relationship with population and size on the map
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Doesn’t the US sometimes use one that puts America in the center and cuts Eurasia in half? Can we agree this one is definitely stupid?
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I've never seen that in the US. That is extremely stupid. Typically maps in the US center around the Atlantic/Europe.
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This unlocked some memories, wow.
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where to cut is one of the hardest decisions. i am guilty of defaulting to cut through greenland more than any other country when making world map desktop wallpapers.
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Most maps in Asia are like this. That’s why growing up I was confused why the US was called the west and East/Southeast Asia was called the far east.
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They included New Zealand.
They're already leagues ahead of most US primary education text books
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Maps with New Zealand.
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And Tasmania!
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At least it has New Zealand.
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I like it, if only because it places Oceania at the center. They're always pushed aside and it's big sad.
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Don't the rest of the countries in the region use similar maps? South Korea, Australia, Japan...? I would expect that to be the case, it seems more natural.
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Yes, and Australia even has it as upside down.
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They've not discovered Antarctica yet
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Sea of Thieves lookin' map.
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Projection aside, proportionally it's a bit whack and Japan is a bit too far north. Taiwan also seems to be inexplicably MIA, which would be understandable if it were omitted due to size but there are several smaller islands still depicted.
Perhaps the real point of interest is that it seems to depict the North and South Koreas as united with the whole peninsula colored in red. As usual for the Juche Boys, this is probably a tacit threat rather than any indication of potential armistice or reconciliation.
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They do this petty, embarrassing shit all the time on their maps. Made it look like Japan smaller while simultaneously peninsula bigger. And this is not just from north but south too lol
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It makes sense they’d centre the Gulf Of Korea though.
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There is no North Korea in North Korea. There is only Korea.
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Nerd sniped me enough to look it up. Both countries use different names for "all of korea." While the north generally refers to itself with the same term as all of korea, there are some contexts where there is a "north Korea" used.
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The oddest part for me is Greenland being split from the Americas
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I mean politically speaking it's Danish, so I suppose it makes sense to group it with Europe in some ways.
It does look a little odd though.
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At first this map seemed perfectly fine to me, but the more I look the weirder it gets.
- The projection used (Mollweide?) distorts the hell out of Europe, Iceland is practically a smear.
- Thailand is gone.
- Crimea seems missing.
- Is Japan a bit shrunk?
- They must have screwed up mounting Africa because the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden are WAY too big
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They also claim South Korea.
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Friar tuck with a splash of bird turd to the noggin
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Seems odd to me to want to put the largest ocean in the world as the focus. Yes, let's put most of the useful information around the edge of the map. Brilliant idea.
Let's draw maps with Antarctica in the middle instead.
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north korea is pretty lose to center on the map.
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That's just the back of the UN logo
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Looks good to me. I've also seen pics showing they can change the colors.
That is common in east Asia in general, and I don't see why not 🤷
I'm no map understander, but I think the projection choice might have not been the best cause it seems to skew edges, while the part that it maintains has a lot of empty space (or maybe I'm just used to other maps). Though this is just a random map on a wall so 🤷
The solution is to create a new continent in the Pacific.
You are used to other maps. Yours are skewed the same way, at least when referencing the versions with curved edges (Robinson), but you just see the same anglo-centric projections, being centered on the prime meridian from the northern hemisphere. The USA is a little bigger than shown on the "normal" map. Greenland is quite smaller than represented. South America/Africa/Australia are significantly undersized. And there's no hope for understanding Antarctica in either version.
I'm trying but they keep cleaning up my plastic
And it has New Zealand on it!
Exactly, no one here played Street Fighter 2 on SNES?!
What do you mean america is not the center of the universe?