ieatcrayonz Posted January 6, 2012 Posted January 6, 2012 (edited) link Umm...note to loser who spent two years making something nobody would buy: You can buy a good GPS for like $75. Edited January 6, 2012 by ieatcrayonz
BuffaloBill Posted January 6, 2012 Posted January 6, 2012 sadly, this will be among the last and probably will go down as the best new paper map of the U.S. I still have the Nat Geo world atlas my grandmother gave me when I was eight or nine. I learned a good bit from the thing.
The Poojer Posted January 6, 2012 Posted January 6, 2012 By far a MUCH better map i looked at this dudes map, and was confused why he chose to include wrigley field twice in the chicago example, i get that one was a location and the other was points of interest in the area, but if they are trying to use the limited space available...
UConn James Posted January 7, 2012 Posted January 7, 2012 Is it wrong to say that I much prefer the National Geographic map that the writer is using as a point of comparison? There are just huge blocks of gray forced by the only-horizontal type in Mr. Imus's map --- how the hell can you find anything? The national scale map is not where Grant Park, the Sears Tower and Wrigley field should have a listing. People know those are in Chicago so what's the function? The level of detail for "points of interest" spots that have always and should be reserved for state-level and city-level maps, rather than in the sweeping view of the entire country one should get from a 3'x4' map. It's just not useful, for the same reason a picture of a tree from 500 feet away should not be the focus level where the stomata and chlorophyll are pointed out. I get the impression that this guy is receiving praise because of the amount of time he invested in this. As for myself, I don't feel the impulse to congratulate someone for wasting their time. To anyone who is unsatisfied with a National Geographic map, all I'll say is this is like a Dansani drinker who turns up his nose at Aquafina. In the comments section below the article, it is evidently the mapmaker himself who wrote this: I believe one of the reasons Americans don’t understand geography as well as they could is that they have never had maps that made geography understandable. Yeah, I'm sure that's it.
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