a map of interest

[jwgh]

I think this map of the United States deserves a wider audience: http://www.flickr.com/photos/catandgirl/1585186867/

(Apart from the giant trainwreck in the northeast, and the whole Hawaii/Alaska question, doctroid pointed out that they got Michigan wrong. Are there other obvious screw-ups?)

Comments

[chaos-are-me.livejournal.com]

Alaska is under the glare in a very tiny way, and Hawaii is just off the coast of Mexico.

[cgoldfish.livejournal.com]

there seems to be a huge lake on top of west virginia.

That's no lake,

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

that's the dimensional rift into which Long Island has fallen.

Re: That's no lake,

[cgoldfish.livejournal.com]

poor long island. she served us well.

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

Credit where it's due, I think it was Rid who pointed out the UP had been annexed by Wisconsin, and it wasn't until now I noticed how much Michigan had shrunk, stretching Indiana and Ohio halfway up Lake Michigan.

At least this map is the first I've seen that gets Rhode Island right. Duh, it's an ISLAND, folks -- you can't have an island that's attached to the mainland on three sides, can you?

[jwgh]

Like the state song says, 'Rhode Island, oh Rhode Island, surrounded by the sea / Some people roam the earth for home; Rhode Island’s It for Me.'

[cpr94.livejournal.com]

What was the purpose of making that map?

At least there were no sea monsters.

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that it is designed to display a set of 51 decorative magnets representing the US States and Washington DC.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing things were rescaled purely so that each state's label could be set in exactly the same typeface, size, and angle.

For whatever it's worth, Michigan is missing its Lake Erie shore, the Canadian western provinces are about half their usual height, and it's already been noted but I can't stop staring at Michigan's upper peninsula, which is apparently squeezed into a ribbon and annexed by Wisconsin. I'm impressed that the artist felt it was more important to get the Great Lakes' shapes and proportions more accurate than the states around them.

[plant-geek.livejournal.com]

i think it's a great map b/c new england's the best part of the country anyway, why shouldn't it be the biggest?

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Magnets, or lapel pins, or something.

It still doesn't explain Wisconsin/Michigan.

[paracelsvs.livejournal.com]

That is not a lake - they use a lighter blue. Judging by the colour, it is an exclave of Canada, presumably part of the larger Canadian incursion into the northeast.