by Peggy Robin
Everyone, stop wasting your time with “What Disney PrincessAre You?” and "What City Should You Actually Live In?" and all those other ridiculous Buzzfeed quizzes! I have a much, much better way
for you to procrastinate from productive things you could be doing with your
valuable time: it’s Map Porn https://www.facebook.com/mapporn.
For anyone who enjoys the way maps display information about
obscure corners of the globe or reveal little-known factoids about places as familiar as
our own backyards, Map Porn will deliver some odd delights…or maybe just
oddities. A few salient examples:
Here’s one for current events - Map Showing Border Between
Russia and Ukraine:
And at the opposite of current events, a map of every spot
in the world ever mentioned in a Bob Dylan song:
Subway maps - if each was made according to the same formula
for readability:
Quick, somebody take this to the Metro board!
Linguistic maps showing the words used for particular words
[bear, rose, beer, tea, orange] all across Europe:
Map showing the weirdest thing each country is known for:
Most awesome thing about each state:
The Atlas of National Stereotypes:
(Warning: This site lives up to the “porn” aspect of “map
porn” in that much of what is found here is bound to offend a lot of people --
although different people will be offended by different aspects of the site. On
the other hand, you might just get a big kick out of parts, or maybe most of
it. Hard to say until you see it!)
And finally, a map showing the highest densities of the name
Kevin:
…which, unfortunately, turns out to be a fake map….but if
you are going to waste your time looking at funny maps, a fake funny map is as
good as a real one, I guess.
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Still Life With Robin is published on the Cleveland ParkListserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays.
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