Tag: usa

• 188 - Panama Kiss

  over 4 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  As early as 1534, king Charles V of Spain suggested a canal in Panama across the Central American isthmus. Even with the primitive state of cartography of the day, it wasn’t hard to see how such a canal would facilitate trade and travel by eliminating the lengthy, dangerous shipping route ... Read More

• 183 - Map of the USA, Made in Japan

  over 4 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  “This map is basically what would happen if you got a bunch of Japanese guys in a room, got them drunk, and then asked them to draw what they could remember about America on a bar napkin. Hell, that’s probably how this game was originally designed,” says Andrew Vestal on Yukihime.com, here ... Read More

• 162 - The United States of Florida

  almost 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  “It takes a big state to absorb the entire North every winter,” the New York Times wrote on February 2 of this year. “Florida is pulling it off.” In wintertime, the Sunshine State takes in ‘snowbirds’ from the rest of the country (and beyond). Interestingly, these cold-weather refugees seek ... Read More

• 160 - The United Countries of Baseball

  almost 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  Although also very popular in East Asia and in other parts of the American continent, baseball is the quintessential North American sport, early in the 20th century even labelled the ‘national pastime’ of the USA. It remains so today: in the US, the words ‘ballgame’ and ‘ballpark’ automatically ... Read More

• 147 - The Stillborn State of Sequoyah

  almost 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  The US state of Oklahoma almost entered the Union as two states – Oklahoma and Sequoyah. The latter is the name of a failed attempt in the early 20th century by Native Americans, who formed (and still form) a large part of the population in eastern Oklahoma, to constitute a state of their own ... Read More

• 144 - Single Guys Live in LA, Single Girls in NYC

  almost 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  This map out of the National Geographic magazine was sent to me by Xyzzy, a name that gives nothing away as to gender affiliation or relationship status. If Xyzzy is female and single, she’s a bit more likely than average to live on the East Coast of the US. If he’s male and single, he might ... Read More

• 143 - Ex Unum Pluribus: New American Nations

  almost 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  The motto of the United States is E Pluribus Unum, Latin for ‘Out of Many, One’. Matt Kirkland, who provided me this map, thinks the US has become too unwieldy, and proposes to go the other way: Ex Unum Pluribus *, ‘Out of One, Many’. Mr Kirkland’s website “is a bit of a grassroots movement ... Read More

• 139 - The Anaconda Plan

  almost 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  “We propose a powerful movement down the Mississippi to the Ocean, with a cordon of posts at proper points (…) the object being to clear out and keep open this great line of communication in connection with the strict blockade of the seaboard, so as to envelop the insurgent States and bring them ... Read More

• 135 - Update On the GDP Map of the USA

  almost 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  I’m not in the habit of extensively revisiting strange maps already posted here, as there are so many more out there. But the map of the ‘US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs’ (in the previous post) elicited such a deluge of interesting replies (including several cool spin-off maps ... Read More

• 134 - Greetings from Bruceville

  almost 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  James Joyce once boasted that, should Dublin ever disappear off the face of the earth, the city could be reconstructed from the references to it in ‘Ulysses’. The maker of this map did something similar: ‘Bruceville’ is New Jersey, as it can be reconstructed out of Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics ... Read More