The map library

New USGS topoView topographic maps, including historical collections to see how locations changed over time:

Description of what’s available:

The viewer:

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GPT-5, with its PhD cartography skills

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Oho!

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There’s no “R” in New Jefst!

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Unless maybe its full name is actually New Ronald Reuel Jefset, and people just usually leave out the middle ones.

Anyway besides the obvious it’s kind of fascinating that the pink doesn’t actually show which states are labeled. Do Oregon, Micann, and Vrcmnt only have partial Rs or something?

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I’m very proud to be a citizen of the great state of checks notes mtroinia…

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I sent this to Kiddo the Eldest, congratulating him on living in Micann. His reply: “I think you’ll find it’s Lower Micann.”

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No Dinosaurs???

P.S. The Lost World took place on high plateaux, either of the Brazilian-Venezualan border, or of the Matto Grosso.

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I can’t tell where Mtroinia ends and New Jefset begins—maybe they’re still fighting it out, which would explain some things—but I appear to be stuck in one or the other or both.

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Wow, I guess flooding from the Great Lakes caused a lot of problems in Canada! :astonished:

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Bnash Adegran lost a lot of its eastern coastline when the Hawaiian Islands relocated to the Sccuena too.

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Not AI, my very own Addled Intelligence.

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Ameriicca? :thinking:

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ai just puts letters together.

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That’s the Wiccan form of “America.”

I prefer “Sccuena.”

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