monday morning map musement
I make fun of Americans and their geography (in)abilities so often I feel like I should balance it out with bad map skills internationally. So let’s take on the Swiss and their airline’s confused map of their American routes, via Strange Maps blog:
So according to this Indianapolis is now the new Fort Wayne, Cleveland is now in Michigan, Sacramento and Portland moved a few hundred miles inland, Denver relocated to Wyoming, and Pittsburgh is underwater.
Sao Paolo, it seems, stretches from coast to coast. I could go on and on.
This is what happens when you charge the graphic designer kid with drawing a map.
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May 12th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Re: Monday Twit ~
What does it say about life if every week begins with a yell of “This week needs to end! Nao!!”.
May 14th, 2008 at 11:23 am
btw was it you who has been pestering me to watch Juno?
‘Cos I did. I put it on my Netflix #1 last weekend and then totally forgot about it. We picked up a copy at McD’s RedBox and got home to find the Netflix disc in our mailbox.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
… and this is my problem how?
May 15th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
I telling good story!