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30 Unusual Maps People Shared On This Group That Might Change Your Perspective On Things
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For many of us, cartography day in geography or history class meant a quick nap. With our eyes open, we’d dream of all the delicious stuff we were gonna eat after school, of music we’d play on the Walkman, of a message we received the other day from that cutie…
To bring back our long-lost excitement for hard pieces of data, aka maps, plans, and geographic drawings, we're gonna need to start from the very best of them. Luckily, there’s a whole online community on Reddit dedicated to the most unusual charts of geographic areas that took maps to a whole new level.
From mapping "October" in European languages to mapping an eagle’s track over a period of twenty years, these incredible examples will surely put the world into a completely new perspective.
Who knows, you may well unleash your inner cartographer and become among 1.1 million like-minded members of the maps subreddit. In that case, you may need some more cartographical goodness with 41 maps that portray lesser-known facts about America.
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#1
An Image Of GPS Tracking Of Multiple Wolves In Six Different Packs Around Voyageurs National Park Shows How Much The Wolf Packs Avoid Each Other's Range
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#2
To Increase Local Tourism, Lithuania Has Made A Map With Magnets That You Can Only Find In Corresponding Cities
#3
Occupied Bald Eagle Nests In Wisconsin. 1974 vs. 2019. Growth Credited To The Clean Water Act
To find out more about this amusing Reddit community by the name r/MapP**n, Bored Panda reached out to its creator Patrick McGranaghan, who started the subreddit in 2011 while living in Taiwan.
Patrick said he has always been a map geek: “I wanted people to share those maps so that they are easy to find and discuss.”
It turns out, he works as a land surveyor in Colorado and is a devoted member of several map societies across the nation, including the North American Cartographic Information Society, Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps, and Rocky Mountain Map Society, to name just a few.
#4
Tracking Of An Eagle Over A 20 Year Period
#5
When A Band Announces A World Tour
#6
Japan, How Big It Is In Reality?
Theodore Theodora 4 years ago
Okay, mind blown; it's literally twice as big as I'd imagined given typical maps. Thank you, person who made it!
The creator said that the title r/MapP**n followed the trend on Reddit at the time when “there were a lot of subreddits with a *-porn suffix.” He explained further: “This refers to pictures of innocuous things like nature, architecture, or engineering marvels in a beautiful way. It was not meant to be sexual. The internet at the time was a lot more relaxed and using that term was funny.”
“In the years since the culture on the internet has taken a much more puritan bias and some people don't like that name,” Patrick said.
However, he assured us that “the goal of the brand has not changed, though: it's a place to share and discuss beautiful maps.”
#7
The Earth Being Centered On Great Britain Is Arbitrary, So Here's A Map Centered On New Zealand
Jyri Hakola 4 years ago
To be honest, only the Centering of 0-meridian to britain is arbitary.. location of 0 latitude at the ecquator is quite natural selection.
#8
Cheese Map Of Europe
Azziza 4 years ago
YES! A cheese tasting tour of Europe. That's a tour I can get behind!
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Tabitha L 4 years ago
Aren't there 400+ types of cheese in France? This map might be missing a few.
Marie Cadavieco 3 years ago
Or Cheshire, or Lancashire, or Lincolnshire Poacher, or Leicester, Double Gloucester, oh dear dreadfully sparse. Europe is the true home of cheese, every country has so many more.
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Cristina Alves Moreira 4 years ago
The most well know cheese in Portugal is not in the map. Queijo da Serra
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
Cristina Alves Moreira (what a regal-sounding name!), tell me about this cheese. Yes, I could look it up in Wikipedia, but they likely wouldn’t tell me the most important stuff.
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McLickerSnitch 3 years ago
It's not a crust, it's a wax coating to keep it fresh.
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Strahd Ivarius 4 years ago
There are about 327 kind of cheeses missing for France... (and don't start me on things like 'Caprice des Dieux')
Henry Cheves 4 years ago
I finally know where the maggot cheese is from! (Hint: In that big sea in the bottom middle. Casu Marzu.)
karin s. 4 years ago
Then maybe you are also interested in the Milbenkaese from the east of Germany (a place in Saxony-Anhalt) which contains living mites.
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*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 4 years ago
ok but what hellhole made the maggot cheese, I need to burn them.
Jack Centner 3 years ago
when i visit norway every summer (to see the fam), i get a lot of geitost cheese
Frozengeckolover 3 years ago
Lol! It's true. We do have "squeeze cheese" here. It's disgusting.
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Prudence Blue 3 years ago
What about Shropshire Blue, Double Gloucester, Lancashire, Bluesticks Blue, Sage Derby, Cornish Yarg, Cheshire, Wensleydale, etc? Britain has 700 cheeses, not 9. France has only 600 cheeses - the UK is now the top international cheese producing country.
Amazon QT 3 years ago
I think they were going with the most popular or one that was created maybe in each county.
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Matthew Davidson 3 weeks ago
Assuming an American made this map: no way is cheddar that colour in the UK.
Margarida Leite 3 years ago
They forgot the most well-known Portuguese cheese: Queijo da Serra.
steve acra 3 years ago
I don't see Swiss Cheese on the map. I guess I'll never figure out where that one comes from.
Sarah Kathrin Matsoukis 3 years ago
Avoid Milbenkäse at all costs. It's rotting cheese with live mites in it. * gags in german *
Andy Clare 3 years ago
Lots of UK cheeses missing such as Wensleydale, Lancashire, Cheshire, Gloucester, Cornish Yarg, Red Leicester, Caboc, Bonchester, to name a few
Andy Clare 3 years ago
Except it repeats Cheddar about 3 times in random locations that are not Cheddar in Somerset!?
Kay Moore-Turner 3 years ago
You can look at this map and track the colonization of the Americas. Knowing where each culture settled in the new world.
Frozengeckolover 3 years ago
This is the most useful map I've ever seen! Time to go on a cheese tour of Europe!
Smiley Rie 3 years ago
Just need a wine one too, upgrade it for the world and life (& future travel) is complete
Just...moth 4 years ago
Now my 2 main life goals are to travel and eat fancy cheese in the places I travel to
Zoltán Almási 4 years ago
Im Hungarian. Never heard of Rögös Túró. Our best cheese is called Pannonia, then Pálpusztai
Hans Van Der Veen 4 years ago
I miss a VERY important brand.Beemster kaas, the best there is https://beemsterkaas.nl/#kaasmakerij belegen_be...fbcf72.jpg 
Anne Hanna 4 years ago
i see my favorites, Edam from Edam, Gouda from Gouda and Limburg from Limburg, but there is Alkmaar as well many cheeses and a great place to visit as they are still wearing the clothes from the olden years. When you get Dutch cheese, make sure you take the outer layer off as most cheeses are on a wooden carrier left outside during the day and the four legged friend pie on it once in a while, unless you don't mind!!!
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
I assume pie = pee (also known in the U.S. as pee-pee)
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I had no idea there were so many cheeses in the world, holy Moses, it's gone take some time to try them all and money!! But not now Covid19 is still lurking!!
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
I’m pretty dang sure you’re not going to get Covid from cheese.
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Corina Tusinean 4 years ago
Not bad but it's missing some important ones. What's a world without Halloumi (from Cyprus)?
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
I love Halloumi! I live in a small town that doesn’t carry anything that exotic. ☹️
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Steinar Eliassen 4 years ago
From Norway: Geitost (brown cheese) is not actually cheese. It is amazing though, and there are several variants of it. It means "goat cheese", but white goat cheese do exist, so "brunost" (brown cheese) is more a correct term, as it can be made from goat milk, cow milk or a mix. It is basically a caramelised whey product :P
Steinar Eliassen 4 years ago
But brunost (brown cheese) is still a bad term since it is not actually cheese :P
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Niamh Lawless 4 years ago
Wait, we in Ireland have our own cheese? Welp, consider me schooled :3
Mascha Claessens 4 years ago
So funny how Gouda is pretty expensive in the US, while it's actually one of the 'simplest' and cheapest (though usually tasty) cheeses in the Netherlands. :)
Angeline Eriksson 4 years ago
Where is the prästost? Best one in my opinion!
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Goth Nurse 4 years ago
In Finland, the "Aura" is a name brand of one blue cheese, not a type of a cheese.
pansexualandproud 4 years ago
I have a pun about cheese, but I think it is a little too cheesy
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Bryndzové halušky in Slovakia are a must-try for any (future) visitor. I would recommend trying them in small villages instead of towns/cities.
Clever Dog 4 years ago
best map ever!But England ( as I am sure so do other counties) have way more cheeses than this.
pebs 4 years ago
Also in Italy, we have about 490 types of cheese... Anyway, it's just a map.
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Dee Hunter 4 years ago
Consider me impressed: Würchwitzer Mite Cheese is on there. (Yeah, I said mite.)
Jette Wang Wahnon 4 years ago
Not really....it all depends on how well you shake them...
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#9
The United States Of America: Alaskan Perspective
When it comes to submissions, they come in every form and style. “From historical maps showing ancient borders, to funny memes and transit maps. People also post imaginary maps of places that they create in their minds.”
In fact, every kind of map imaginable has been posted to this subreddit. Patrick said that linguistic maps are popular, as well as maps that re-imagine state and national borders. There are also maps of asteroids and maps of routes of famous explorers.
“One of my favorite interactions is when a map is posted of an obscure place and someone in the comments says they live there or has a story about that place.”
#10
50 Percent Of Canadians Live South Of The Red Line
#11
Each Section Has 10% Of The World's Population
#12
List Of Countries Mentioned Or Referred In The Bible
Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
Wow, I never knew this. Unlikely Jesus was fair skinned, blond and blue eyed....
Patrick concluded that “Maps are a way to visualize the world in a way that is easy to grasp. They are an aid in learning about new lands and faraway places. They help us find our way when we are lost.”
Especially in a time like now, “when the pandemic prevents us from traveling, maps are a way that we can travel without leaving our home,” the map enthusiast said.
#13
The Longest Possible Train Travel In The World
#14
Where Penguins Are Found Naturally In The World
#15
Size Comparison Between Australia And The United States
#16
3D Render Topographic Map Of Europe
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
I didn't know there was an ice-wall between Finland and Russia!?! (Do I need to write 'Sarkasm'?)
#17
North America Animal Migration Routes
#18
A Europe–U.S. Superhighway Proposed By The Former President Of Russian Railways
#19
The Surface Of Mars: If, Like Earth, 71% Of Its Surface Area Was Covered With Water
#20
World's Smallest Country vs. Largest Building
#21
The Decline Of Our Native Tongue Over The Last 2 Centuries, I Find The Maps Rather Than The Reciting Of Statistics, Gives A Far Better Impression On The Overall Erosion Of One Of The Biggest Aspects Of Our Culture, Irish Itself
#22
Worlds CO Emissions
#23
Locations Johnny Cash Claims To Have Been In "Ive Been Everywhere"
#24
The Countries That Got Tea Via China Through The Silk Road (Land) Referred To It In Various Forms Of The Word "Cha". On The Other Hand, The Countries That Traded With China Via Sea - Through The Min Tan Port Called It In Different Forms Of "Te"
#25
Passenger Railway Network 2020
Pseudo Puppy 4 years ago
In the "australia" map.... that little pink line above the "L", is actually New Zealand - a totally separate country to "Australia" (although the Aussies & Kiwis do consider themselves like "siblings" ie we are staunch rivals within sports, but stick together in defense of eachother).
#26
What Pedestrians Look Like Across Europe
#27
The Topologist's Map Of The World - A Map Showing International Borders, And Nothing Else
#28
These Two Areas Of Africa Have Roughly Equal Populations
#29
Roads Either Side Of The Border: Finland vs. Russia
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