Go to World66 and click on a list of all the countries you've visited. Then it'll generate map of the world showing where you've been in red. It's an interesting experiment in geopolitics, because if forces you to realize how big the world is and how little of it you've seen -- if you're like me, that is. My map mostly-white map is above.
Posted by Clive Thompson at February 28, 2004 08:23 PM
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This meme has exploded in popularity. May I assert that the most successfull memes aid in expressing oneself.
Posted by: jeff at February 29, 2004 2:27 AM
wow. how humbling.
My map (I'm not gonna even bother going to the link for this pittance) would include exactly two countries: Canada (home) & The United States of America.
With my family, we travelled nearly coast-to-coast in Canada, and a little in New England and the North Eastern Seaboard, until I became a teenager and got summer jobs. Since then it's work-work-work and no time to venture elsewhere.
I count myself fortunate, however, in that my father gave me a Mercator-projection World Map when I was 10 or 11, and we pinned it up on my bedroom wall, and I spent hours, lots of hours, staring at that map, seeing where all of these exotic places were (there were American Hostages in Iran at the time, so I was drawn to the Middle East early on and often by the news on the CBC). Except for Africa, where place names have changed a lot in the last twenty years, I'm still rather able at getting around a map/globe.
Fairly helpful when you work for a luxury travel company, really. :)
[I gotta get out and see more world, though. I know this.]
Posted by: bud at February 29, 2004 10:35 AM
So cool you had a Mercator projection when you were a kid, Bud! I think there should be one hanging in every school in North America.
Jeff, re: memes -- yeah, you're right. The self-expression memes are the top ones.
Posted by: Clive at March 1, 2004 10:05 AM
I don't know. I understand how this map thing is supposed to open my eyes and show how their is an entire world out there that I have yet to experience.
My problem lies in the political cartography of the maps themselves; most importantly the all too common diminshed size of Africa. Want proof, check out Sudan, a country that is twice the size of continental Europe, however, on some maps appears smaller than California. Ethnocentric maps disguise many truths about our American culture and how small we actually percieve the world. Our minds (and maps it seems) are accustomed to an SUV syndrome where we are the biggest when it is simply not so.
Posted by: David at March 2, 2004 12:52 PM
Hi
Thank you very much for suggessting me an idea !
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I had a real block around lyrics for map songs I was writing, in particular. maps And one thing that really helped to maps lift me out of that self-damning phase mapquest was to go into the studio with Phil driving directions and make a rap song. Two things about hotel that: first, even though it was a first us map effort, and we were two whiteys who hotels
Posted by: Map Quest at August 5, 2004 2:21 PM
This meme has exploded in popularity. May I assert that the most successfull memes aid in expressing oneself.
Posted by: jeff at February 29, 2004 2:27 AM
wow. how humbling.
My map (I'm not gonna even bother going to the link for this pittance) would include exactly two countries: Canada (home) & The United States of America.
With my family, we travelled nearly coast-to-coast in Canada, and a little in New England and the North Eastern Seaboard, until I became a teenager and got summer jobs. Since then it's work-work-work and no time to venture elsewhere.
I count myself fortunate, however, in that my father gave me a Mercator-projection World Map when I was 10 or 11, and we pinned it up on my bedroom wall, and I spent hours, lots of hours, staring at that map, seeing where all of these exotic places were (there were American Hostages in Iran at the time, so I was drawn to the Middle East early on and often by the news on the CBC). Except for Africa, where place names have changed a lot in the last twenty years, I'm still rather able at getting around a map/globe.
Fairly helpful when you work for a luxury travel company, really. :)
[I gotta get out and see more world, though. I know this.]
Posted by: bud at February 29, 2004 10:35 AM
So cool you had a Mercator projection when you were a kid, Bud! I think there should be one hanging in every school in North America.
Jeff, re: memes -- yeah, you're right. The self-expression memes are the top ones.
Posted by: Clive at March 1, 2004 10:05 AM
I don't know. I understand how this map thing is supposed to open my eyes and show how their is an entire world out there that I have yet to experience.
My problem lies in the political cartography of the maps themselves; most importantly the all too common diminshed size of Africa. Want proof, check out Sudan, a country that is twice the size of continental Europe, however, on some maps appears smaller than California. Ethnocentric maps disguise many truths about our American culture and how small we actually percieve the world. Our minds (and maps it seems) are accustomed to an SUV syndrome where we are the biggest when it is simply not so.
Posted by: David at March 2, 2004 12:52 PM
Hi
Thank you very much for suggessting me an idea !
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Posted by: a at June 19, 2004 6:35 AM
I had a real block around lyrics for map songs I was writing, in particular. maps And one thing that really helped to maps lift me out of that self-damning phase mapquest was to go into the studio with Phil driving directions and make a rap song. Two things about hotel that: first, even though it was a first us map effort, and we were two whiteys who hotels
Posted by: Map Quest at August 5, 2004 2:21 PM