Maps To Change Your Perspective

I’m a bit of a map geek. Nothing hardcore, but I have to admit I find these fascinating and have been collecting them for years.

Abandoned Railways


Air Traffic Control Regions

Antarctica In Relation to North America

The United States in Relation to Australia

The Most Efficient Roadtrip to Visit all the Towns Named Springfield in the United States

California in Relation to Italy

Canada, The United States, and Mexico to Scale

Blond Hair Distribution in North and South America

China in Relation to Russia

China in Relation to the United States

Preferred Coffee Chains Across the United States

Countries With Less Than 100 Million People

All the Countries That Could Fit inside the United States

Extent of Google Street View

Cuba in Relation to the Hudson Bay

Wildfires as of July 2020

Flamingo Populations

United States Forestation

Greenland in Relation to South America

India in Relation to the United States

Japan in Relation to the East Coast of the United States

This one is especially interesting at the moment because one of the guilty pleasures that Ben and I enjoy watching together are Japan Ferry videos on YouTube. I’ve always wondered why it takes days to go from one place to another, thinking that Japan was relatively small. Turns out it isn’t. My ignorance was showing big time.

Land Use in the United States

Left Hand vs. Right Hand Driving

Light Pollution Across the United States

The Population of Los Angeles County (Red) In Relation to the Equivalent Population if Spread Other States

Average Ambient Sound Levels

Rivers That Feed Into The Mississippi

The United States Overlaid on the Moon

Streams and Rivers in the United States

Mammal Migration

The Mediterranean Sea in Relation to the United States

Metric vs. Imperial Measurement

Montana in Relation to Mongolia

More People Inside the Circle Than Ouside the Circle

Job Quitters

New Zealand in Relation to the United States

Poland in Relation to Texas

Cities with Populations over 100,000

Population Density – Orange and Red are Equal

Global Population Density

Population Density in the United States

Population Density of 1 Billion People Split Equally (Green is One Billion, Blue is One Billion, Red is One Billion, etc.)

Correct Map Projection Showing Relative Locations of North and South America. (Most of South America is East of North America)

Population Density – Total Red is Greater Than Total Gray

Major U.S. Roadways

Preferred Sports

States if Sized By Population Density

Brands Most Associated With Each State

Texas in Relation to Africa

Age of Consent

North American English Dialects

Canadian Population Density

United States Circuit Courts – This is Why We Need at Least Two More Supreme Court Justices

The United States Redrawn as Fifty States of Equal Population

For Lovers of Furry Friends – Heartworm Incidence map

The True Size of Africa

Counties With the Highest Incidents of Tornadoes 1952-2010

Tornado Tracks Across the United States

Countries Are Viewed as the Major Threat to World Peace by Each Country

UFO SIghtings by County

The United States That Might’ve Been If Various Failed State Petitions Throughout U.S. History Had Come to Fruition

One or Two License Plates in the United States


World Oil Distribution

Worldwide Earthquakes

And Lastly, Maybe The Trippiest One of All

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From Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

    1. Anything this is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
    2. Anything that’s invented you’re between fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
    3. Anything invented after you’re 35 is against the natural order of things.

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It’s Not Over Yet. Not by a Long Shot.

Please wear a mask: So the CDC wanted local jurisdictions to make their own call about mask mandates, but local jurisdictions have thrown their hands up and decided that since the CDC doesn’t have any firm rules, they won’t take a stand. But even in the wild, wild west that is pandemic summer #3, health experts urge you to mask up.

Why wear a mask? Because we are fucked if we do not. Everyone and their mother caught one of those pesky subvariants, and, according to the LA Times, we are looking at a “mass disabling event”—and we all know how the bosses treat people with disabilities under capitalism. Now (and always) is a good time to read up on disability activism before we all have to fight the capitalists to let us survive even if we cannot work in the ways society sees as most valuable.

The other plague: The feds are giving the whole country 786,000 more Monkeypox vaccines. Not to undersell the severity of the Monkeypox situation, but it does give me comfort that we already have a vaccine for this shit. Like, with COVID-19, we just raw-dogged for a year, and honestly when I think of how much painful, unnecessary death the state sanctioned, I want to vomit.

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