We have a big Nat’l Geographic world map on the back of our fridge by the back door; it’s a map of the seafloor.
Years ago, a couple of the magnets kept falling off it, and mom got mad. She yelled at me to get rid of it. I angrily asked her if she’d ever even noticed what it depicted, after its being up there all those years. She admitted she had no idea, and actually apologized to me
I dug up some better magnets, and she never bitched about it again.
The scale is probably different, but the article is annoyingly quiet about the boundaries for each colour group.
Today we watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles followed by Home Alone. The homes owned by the protagonists from each film are only two miles apart in Chicago’s north suburbs.
Well, I found it interesting.
mapsontheweb
More than 25 million Christmas trees are harvested in the US. Here’s where they grow.
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You sound like me, but I’d draw maps of made-up countries, cities &/or airports.
Occasionally I will still do this - having a computer @ work mostly scratches the boredom itch, but occasionally I’ll be in a meeting w/ nothing but pen & paper.
Imagined airport:
I guess the joke is that there are no Krogers around the DC area (other than them owning Harri$-Teeter)
Whoo, look at it go!
Edit: Here’s something for this thread that I posted in the “Count to Ten Thousand” thread:
A map of the Babylon 5 universe in 2257, used for Babylon 5 Wars tabletop space wargame’s background. I don’t know how canonical this is for the B5 universe, but as far as I can recall, the game seemed quite faithful to the show.
There are a few games around creating fictional maps that you might be interested in:
The only one I’ve played so far is Ex Novo; it was fun. The city didn’t end up anything like I initially expected, but it did end up with a bunch of interesting bits and backstory for them.
They’re all around doodling maps on paper, but with prompts to inspire you from dice or a deck of cards or something like that.
A lot of people recommend The Quiet Year, but it just drove me up the wall. I’d like more structure, more random or semi-random tables, etc.
El Novo sounds like what I’d hoped that Sim City would be like (way back when), but wasn’t. I still spent a whole lot of time playing SC - just imagine how much time I could use up with EN! 
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75095651/map
The reason why all our phones went berserk this morning (Tsunami alert, now canceled).
I feel like 
is a reference to what gets called Hawaiian pizza, but that was actually invented in Ontario by a Greek immigrant and named for using Hawaiian brand pineapples. Aside from that it has nothing to do with the islands unless they’ve embraced it very recently.
could be a reference to the purported use of SPAM™ as a topping there?
It could just be that the person who made the map had no idea where Hawaiian pizza originated. I’m curious about the 
in Alaska. I can’t remember ever hearing anything related to Alaska and pizza.
