Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 23, 2021

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    RAGs  over 3 years ago

    I like the map Ben Franklin made of the Gulf Stream…

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    Bilan  over 3 years ago

    But there is a map to show where the map corner is.

    It’s in the map corner.

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    Concretionist  over 3 years ago

    When I got a vehicle, my parents got me maps. For a long time, the glove box was so full of them that there was room for little else. Now, I still have one of those map-books in the side pocket, but it’s used mainly as a portable desk. Until a couple of years ago when both Google Maps AND Garmin decided to remove the little dirt roads that I like to explore on. Now it’s back to being useful!

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    gsawyer101  over 3 years ago

    Then there was (?is?) AAA trip ticks. Actually very handy when traveling.

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    T Smith  over 3 years ago

    This is why so few younger people actually know how to get anywhere.

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    Batteries  over 3 years ago

    Of course Frazz is wearing a USGS shirt as they’re discussing maps and atlases

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    sandpiper  over 3 years ago

    A whole section of libraries that has been gathering dust for the last 5 decades. The Peter Ustinov segment in the movie Logan’s Run 1976 showed the likely effects of decades of substituting digital education and AI control for hands on experience. Yes, sure, a fantasy and very unlikely . . . no?

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    sandpiper  over 3 years ago

    Caulfield has found a gold mine of the kind of fascinating material that might hold his interest, where current curricula might not. Just comparing the ever changing maps of the world over the generations, will give him a new outlook on history and the ever evolving foibles of the human race that he can get nowhere else. Be interesting to see how far Mallett takes this theme.

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    Dobby53 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    The BEST maps are at 1 to 1 scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science

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    Dobby53 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I remember when the NASA probes started mapping the moon and NASA and the USGS came out with these (free) beautifully colored maps of lunar geography/geology. Spent hours exploring those maps. Glorious.

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    Pocosdad  over 3 years ago

    Here be dragons!

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    cervelo  over 3 years ago

    I know public libraries still use the Dewey Classification System but I haven’t been in a school library in a long, long time. I know also that trained librarians are becoming very rare as an asset in most school boards in Ontario anyway. I wonder, does anyone know if books are still classified according to Dewey in schools? Do libraries even exist? If they do, are they sorry remnants of their former selves or is everything in the cloud?

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    Twelve Badgers in a Suit Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I prefer maps of places that don’t exist.

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    atajayhawk  over 3 years ago

    Caulfield’s discovery parallel’s Diana Gabaldon (Outlander series) in her book ‘The Outlandish Companion,) about researching. Catalogues are very valuable and useful, but they show you what you ask for. She recommends using the catalogue until the call numbers (letters, whatever) start repeating. Then go to that section and start reading the shelves. You’ll find things—fun and/or useful—that you’d never dream of.YES!

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    Jhony-Yermo  over 3 years ago

    Just last weekend ordered a new, large scale !:25,000 map of my area from the USGS ! And libraries often have a librarian w/ a MLS that runs the map rooms.

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    Old Girl  over 3 years ago

    Nothing like an up-to-the-minute Google street view.

    They’ve got one of a huge hole in the ground a block up the road where I’ve been shopping for over two years. Spent two nights at a twelve story hotel in my state capital that Google thinks is a residential block.

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    cissycox  over 3 years ago

    Did I mention Ken Jenning’s Map Heads. There seem to be a lot of us here.

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    Tallguy  over 3 years ago

    Neither does the potato chip aisle at Kroger.

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    brick10  over 3 years ago

    I love old maps!

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    Thinkingblade  over 3 years ago

    As a stats person Minard’s map of Napoleon’s march to Moscow is one I always think on – it represents both a brilliant representation of data – and a failure to achieve the desired impact in policy. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a7/59/cb/a759cb705ec5098c25df9a5a8624d9ac.jpg

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    Cactus-Pete  over 3 years ago

    Why does he assume no one knows it’s there? How did the kid know that some maps were new? And since when do libraries have maps and not just atlases?

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member over 3 years ago

    IIRC, atlases were grouped with other oversized books — sinisterly labelled “Q” — like artworks and architectural drawings, not because of their contents but simply because they were way too big to fit on the regular shelves and had to be laid flat.

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    asrialfeeple  over 3 years ago

    It’s The Arcane Way of Navigating.

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    Mary McNeil Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Bet the Librarian knew it was there – but she’s probably as obsolete as Mrs. Olsen.

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