This started as a humorous conversation with coworkers; I don’t remember exactly how it came up, but one coworker talked about a family trip to visit all the states but somehow missed North Dakota. This of course prompted doubts as to its actual existence. The rest of us confirmed that we, also, have never been… Continue reading Does North Dakota even exist?
Tag: Geography
Cascadia, State of Jefferson and other secessionist movements
Being in Portland several times over the past several weeks for beer happenings got me thinking about the (mostly inconsequential) debate about “Cascadian Dark Ales” (versus the other names of “Black IPA”, “American Black Ale” and so on) and about the “Cascadia” part of that name. See, here in the Pacific Northwest “Cascadia” can refer… Continue reading Cascadia, State of Jefferson and other secessionist movements
Online Bend maps
Lately I’ve been playing around a bit with Google Earth, and correspondingly Google Maps, and it’s amazing the kinds of things you can do with it. Unfortunately, their source data for Central Oregon is less than impressive; try to zoom in too tightly and you just get pixelated blobs. Well, the city of Bend website… Continue reading Online Bend maps
Globe
Today at work my friend Kerry and I were talking about geography and globes, which was prompted by the Yahooligans Where in the World is? game (where you see if you know your world geography), and came up with what I think would be the perfect globe: an interactive one whose outer surface is a… Continue reading Globe
Fool’s World Map
Via Boing Boing tonight comes the Fool’s World Map. Brilliant. This is a project visualizing the world map which many fools in the world imagine. If you can see this map comfortably, you are definitely a fool. One day, a Texan asked me a question when I lived in U.S… The question was… Continue reading Fool’s World Map
Latitude and longitude
Here’s an interesting site I stumbled upon today: The Degree Confluence Project. From their homepage: The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted here. Sort of like a… Continue reading Latitude and longitude