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A community for Cartographers with nothing left to lose.

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We are agents of chaos I’ve created this to be the alternative to the community I used to manage on the website that shalt not be named “mapporncirclejerk”

Live and let die Meme trends happen, so please don’t message mods asking to take down maps that are repetitive to a bit.

Reposts Vs. Covers Not all reposts are evil- if someone posts something that has been done years ago, it serves to bring old memes to the new users. I call these meme covers. However it can be done in excess which makes it a repost and spam. Mods will determine if a post is a cover or a repost.

No impersonating mods I can’t believe I had to make this rule.

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Hey, we're on 60th. Where are you?? (media.piefed.world)

submitted 4 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/cartographyanarchy@sh.itjust.works

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(this is a real map in Queens)

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Where I grew up they had certain streets end when they intersected perpendicularly with another one. Turn, and go down this other street and you'd eventually be able to find the original street continuing in the same direction, just not in a straight line. Named the same, too! Made trying to find a specific address before GPS and smartphones needlessly difficult.

Also, the font and size was the worst. You couldn't tell if '1 ST' was '1st' or '1 Street'. Same with '3 RD': was it '3rd' or '3 Road' (they had both separate streets in the same town).

That's in addition to 4th Ave intersecting with 4th Rd, like in this image...