Tag: maps
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Geologist Shares His Most Interesting Finds On Google Earth
A geologist from New Orleans named Will could put Google Earth under his hobbies, as the guy spends a lot of time exploring various areas of the map and snapping screenshots of places he found most interesting. Posting under the name geologistsmakethebedrock, this man has shared a couple of galleries with the internet people, adding…
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Cartographers Rejoice: These Maps Are So Terrible They’re Great
The internet has been around for a while now. But would you have thought that it’s been around for so long that someone came up with a Facebook page titled ‘Terrible Maps‘? They have indeed. This tongue-in-cheek collection of cartography-based memes and jokes is sometimes absurd and other times surprisingly informative, but always good old…
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Geography You Weren’t Taught at School: Frequency of Red Heads in Europe…
By the time we finish high school, we realise that a lot of the time the things they taught us weren’t that useful or interesting. Sure, you might be able to name the European countries or point out major landmarks on a map, but does that give you a real understanding of how the world…