I question the accuracy of everything regarding that map. The fla-shop site (lower right-hand corner of map) basically gives users the tool to create their own interactive maps. I’m guessing someone biased toward the Midwest was expressing their own opinion.
FD: Just the sight of a deep-dish pizza makes me nauseous.
It’s like a pizza, but 4-dimensional.
Where’s that puke emoji.
I really like you, but you just got wrong, Sunshine.
To get off the pizza topic and onto safer ground /S
Interactive and zoomable version.
The Apple World Map by Helen Cann commissioned by and licensed to the Museum of Cider, Brightspace Foundation and National Trust Copyright © Helen Cann 2020
This could start a whole new argument. For “The First Apple Computer” they are showing a Macintosh. And it’s pointing to Washington, D. C.
That ain’t Scandinavia that’s Fennoscandia.
it’s all frozen pizza.
Because you’re seeing the white and near-white areas as water?
Oh, I see. In my defense the white is water since it doesn’t seem to show ocean depth, and for Guanacaste I had trouble telling them apart. Mostly it’s too early though. 
Understandable. I edited it to say “elevation”. My choice of color ramp was for aesthetics. I prefer to look at it as clouds and fog.
Now I get it.
I’d consider the positive side: More for you. 
I like how The Simpsons isn’t on the map, because it deliberately made itself impossible to be.
It’s at the corner of Ohio, Kentucky, Maine, and Nevada.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/SeparateSimpsonsGeographyThing
Just saw this:
Slider along the bottom to “time travel” and links straight to Wikipedia articles about the different empires.
