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.
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Bans Bans will be set to a maximum of 365 days for humans, and a minimum of 365 years for bots. I believe people can change, so if you are banned for good reason, do know that it is not permanent, it is just a way to say "take time to grow and come back when you are ready".
Transcription
A map of the world with the legend Green: Bigger than Vatican, Grey: No data. The entire world is green, except for Greenland and Western Sahara. New Zealand is shaded out so as to not appear at all.
Top comment on Facebook:
This is only true when we look at a 2-dimensional map. If we saw it in 3 dimensions we could see that the Vatican reaches all the way to heaven
heaven
but maps have facts
Facts like New Zealand isn't real
Who knows
I like the white-out over New Zealand
wdym? that smudge by Australia? that's just where the garbage patch is rn
Wow, Mercator projection really does skew the size. I figured for sure that Greenland would be bigger than the Vatican.
It might be, but we have no data.
How there's never enough data from Greenland? Are they afraid of surveys? Do they even exist?
Apperantly Vatican is bigger than Vatican.
No data for Denmark?
Mainland Denmark has data. Greenland, as with many of these surveys, does not.
it's an old meme sir, it checks out