Does anyone else like maps? - Page 2

scratch · #31 17th October 2015, 10:54

I used to study Geography at A-Level and have always had an interest in travel so I do like a good rummage through a map

Did anyone used to enjoy watching Treasure Hunt with Anneka Rice back in the 80's? I used to love that show!! I was only a kid then but used to enjoy seeing her trying to navigate to different places in a helicopter while trying to read a scrunched up map

Tembo · #32 17th October 2015, 15:13

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Originally Posted by Upvoteanthology

Sure, here's a link to my DA account, where you can find all my cool maps and stuff. :p

Brilliant maps! Interesting to see what the world could have been like with alternate histories!

black_mamba · #33 17th October 2015, 16:05

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Originally Posted by woof

I like to go on google maps and pick a random place ( I did Australia last time) and just pick a random town . Go on the street view and have a 'drive' around lol Sounds mad and yes I do have a boring life

but its nice to see different architecture and buildings in different countries.

I do this a lot. It's a lovely cheap way to see the world.

Have you ever played that Google maps game where you have to guess the locations? If not you may like it: https://geoguessr.com/

LonelyBoy · #34 17th October 2015, 17:02

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Originally Posted by woof

I like to go on google maps and pick a random place ( I did Australia last time) and just pick a random town . Go on the street view and have a 'drive' around lol Sounds mad and yes I do have a boring life

but its nice to see different architecture and buildings in different countries.

I do the same for Bogotá and Mogadishu. Sometimes if you're lucky you can find a freshly butchered terrorist's corpse (though the killjoys at Google usually blur those images - boo!).

Tea'n'cakes · #35 19th October 2015, 20:18

Well, I was going to post that no, i don't really like maps. But...having seen Appear and Olly's maps, I think I've been converted. Yes, I do like maps. And I especially love the book 'Mpas,' by Aleksandra Mizielinska.

Tea'n'cakes · #36 19th October 2015, 20:19

I wonder if I will kill this thread as I seem to have done to every other thread this evening,

LonelyBoy · #37 19th October 2015, 20:45

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Originally Posted by Tea'n'cakes

Well, I was going to post that no, i don't really like maps. But...having seen Appear and Olly's maps, I think I've been converted. Yes, I do like maps. And I especially love the book 'Mpas,' by Aleksandra Mizielinska.

That's easy for you to say...

Tea'n'cakes · #38 19th October 2015, 21:13

Meh, I know I know. Mpas, maps, I noticed the typo too late. I struggled with maps, but managed Mizielinska.

hollowone · #39 20th October 2015, 01:38

Anyone done the flight simulator on google earth? I love exploring the oceans; the Monerey Canyon, the Mriana Trench and many other features.

R.H.I.N.O. · #40 11th December 2015, 01:04

I also have a lifelong love of maps. Maybe they suit the SA brain.

Between The Bars · #41 11th December 2015, 01:07

A cannae read the bloody things.

Neil · #42 20th December 2015, 00:43

Add another map obsessive to the list!

Ronnie_Pickering · #43 20th December 2015, 19:07

if I'm lost

LonelyBoy · #44 20th December 2015, 19:13

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Originally Posted by hollowone

Anyone done the flight simulator on google earth? I love exploring the oceans; the Monerey Canyon, the Mriana Trench and many other features.

Do you mean Google Earth's submarine simulator?

Coffee · #45 21st December 2015, 10:51

I think I'm starting to like maps - I should not have started reading this thread!

LonelyBoy · #46 22nd December 2015, 20:01

I genuinely can't fathom how many people can't 'read' maps. To me, it is as natural as reading a book or building a matchstick-model of Elizabeth Tower by following the assembly instructions. What is difficult about it? I know people who have no idea about their bearings even when looking at a map of their own neighbourhood and insist on a 'long cut' to get to the nearest Post Office even when I show them the map and explain to them their folly.

Laura84 · #47 25th December 2015, 06:09

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Originally Posted by biscuits

This makes me want to listen to Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Great song

I love Google Earth, having a 'walk around' somewhere new I'll be visiting always puts me more at ease with going.

LonelyBoy · #48 25th December 2015, 10:57

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Originally Posted by Laura84

Great song

I love Google Earth, having a 'walk around' somewhere new I'll be visiting always puts me more at ease with going.

Yes, the favelas surrounding Sau Paulo are always a good tour. They have to blur out all the blood stains and corpses, though.

anxiouslondoner · #49 25th December 2015, 11:11

I love naps. I could have a nap right now, and I haven't even got up yet.

LonelyBoy · #50 25th December 2015, 19:48

Yes, Thatcher had a rare disorder that made her ears pathologically and excruciatingly sensitive to 'rumbling' and 'clattering' tube train vibrations. And since she conceived and directed her schemes of world domination (or at least the war crime of sinking a fleeing Argentine warship in international waters) from a bunker 100 feet below 10 Downing Street (and worked unsociable hours), she first attempted to have her bunker soundproofed, but this only accentuated the voices in her head, so, Plan A having failed, she stopped all off-peak tube services instead. It was tragic.