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Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:26 am to dallastiger55
If you look at my "what do you want to be when you grow up" sheets from grade school...I wanted to be a cartographer. 
Placed in the state geography bee with no formal studying/prep unlike the home-schooled kids I was competing against.
Still get sucked into the rabbit hole of Google Earth/Maps and the requisite wikipedia reading for hours on end. Wife has routinely left me behind in places like Visitors Centers and antique shops that still have physical maps on the wall while I stare at them and observe...
Placed in the state geography bee with no formal studying/prep unlike the home-schooled kids I was competing against.
Still get sucked into the rabbit hole of Google Earth/Maps and the requisite wikipedia reading for hours on end. Wife has routinely left me behind in places like Visitors Centers and antique shops that still have physical maps on the wall while I stare at them and observe...
This post was edited on 7/22/19 at 10:30 am
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:27 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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I love google maps. Sometimes when I’m bored at work I will I find random islands and whatnot and read about them.
I fell into a Faroe Islands rabbithole this weekend.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:29 am to dallastiger55
I work with ArcGIS daily. Who knew geophysics would lead to cartography.
I have a really badass 3D map made out of wood of Charleston Harbor, with the bathymetry of the shipping channel, waterways, inlets, and nearshore cut into the wood. It’s a great layered effect.
I also have a 20’ by 5’ USGS map of the US that is overlaid with the surficial geology at any point. Great conversation piece... or to stare at for an hour when you’re really high.
I have a really badass 3D map made out of wood of Charleston Harbor, with the bathymetry of the shipping channel, waterways, inlets, and nearshore cut into the wood. It’s a great layered effect.
I also have a 20’ by 5’ USGS map of the US that is overlaid with the surficial geology at any point. Great conversation piece... or to stare at for an hour when you’re really high.
This post was edited on 7/22/19 at 10:51 am
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:29 am to Golfer
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.I wanted to be a cartographer.
search is over, we've found the nerd!!!
jk
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:31 am to Golfer
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Still get sucked into the rabbit hole of Google Earth/Maps and the requisite wikipedia reading for hours on end. Wife has routinely left me behind in places like Visitors Centers and antique shops that still have physical maps on the wall while I stare at them and observe...
Oh I feel like such a pile of shite for doing this to your life... please... please forgive me....
You should download the GeoGuesser app. Or at the very least play the online version.
Say goodbye to your life though.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:31 am to Golfer
Yes indeed.
I do not travel much, and when I do, it is often to places we have been before. :(
When heading westward, usually just to Houston or visit relatives in Temple or Fort Worth, we STILL have an obligatory stop at the Texas Welcome Center to pick up the big book of places (photographic gazetteer) and the updated map. Every time. It's always slower going as we have to stop for breakfast at the Burger King at Lobdell, cracklins at BesStop, visit to see Charlene in Richard (those who know will understand) THEN hammer down for the Sabine River.
I do not travel much, and when I do, it is often to places we have been before. :(
When heading westward, usually just to Houston or visit relatives in Temple or Fort Worth, we STILL have an obligatory stop at the Texas Welcome Center to pick up the big book of places (photographic gazetteer) and the updated map. Every time. It's always slower going as we have to stop for breakfast at the Burger King at Lobdell, cracklins at BesStop, visit to see Charlene in Richard (those who know will understand) THEN hammer down for the Sabine River.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:32 am to dallastiger55
Yes, I've got several Louisiana road maps from the 1920s and 1930s that I've picked up over the years.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:33 am to udtiger
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I fell into a Faroe Islands rabbithole this weekend.
I did the same thing a while back with the foreboding sounding DESOLATION ISLANDS
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:34 am to dallastiger55
Yes and Rand McNally has the best road maps. Those free maps they give you at the state Welcome Centers make me angry.
And I also got a National Geographic Atlas of the World Map when I was pretty young.
And I also got a National Geographic Atlas of the World Map when I was pretty young.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:34 am to dallastiger55
yep......
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:36 am to dallastiger55
Is this at the Bullock Texas State History Museum?
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:37 am to dallastiger55
Did you ever look for the intentional "errors" (fake towns, fake bend in the river, etc.) that Rand McNally put into the maps to protect their copyright?
ETA: Agloe, in NY, was a fake town Rand McNally put on a map. For a while, it was on Google maps too until they were called out on it.
ETA: Agloe, in NY, was a fake town Rand McNally put on a map. For a while, it was on Google maps too until they were called out on it.
This post was edited on 7/22/19 at 10:39 am
Posted on 7/22/19 at 10:59 am to chinhoyang
Thanks for this thread.
I’m now slightly less embarrassed about my childhood obsession with the atlas and maps in general. I miss AAA triptiks.
On our road trips to Florida as a kid I’d make my parents wake me up if we went through any decent sized city. I then had to bust out the atlas and figure out how far it was to the next city.
I still love them and love going down a random google maps rabbit hole.
I’m now slightly less embarrassed about my childhood obsession with the atlas and maps in general. I miss AAA triptiks.
On our road trips to Florida as a kid I’d make my parents wake me up if we went through any decent sized city. I then had to bust out the atlas and figure out how far it was to the next city.
I still love them and love going down a random google maps rabbit hole.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 11:28 am to Joshjrn
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Do you know this from personal experience, or are you simply regurgitating what your Facebook friends fed you?
Personal experience. Not sure why you think this is so farfetched.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 11:34 am to chinhoyang
I didn't look for errors, but found them.
At one time there were three north-south minor roads way east of Tampa and they didn't exist.
Google still shows a ferry very close to where I live; they got that from Rand McNally who left it 'active' long after the ferry's wood had rotted away and only the steel structure of the ferry remains.
At one time there were three north-south minor roads way east of Tampa and they didn't exist.
Google still shows a ferry very close to where I live; they got that from Rand McNally who left it 'active' long after the ferry's wood had rotted away and only the steel structure of the ferry remains.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 11:48 am to dallastiger55
I have an reproduction French map of the Louisiana Purchase hanging in my bedroom
It's incredibly detailed with sketches of the various regional tribes and natural wonders
It's incredibly detailed with sketches of the various regional tribes and natural wonders
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:00 pm to dallastiger55
One of my favorite pastimes when bored is to go on Google maps and explore cities I want to visit. I also like to check out battles sites and other historical places
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:04 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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I get calls from people daily who can't find our facility (it's extremely easy) because the physical address doesn't jive with google maps.
That’s not because they can’t read a map; it’s because the map they are reading is wrong
Posted on 7/22/19 at 12:06 pm to dallastiger55
I have always been very into maps. It was one of my toys as a kid. We didn’t have much money.
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