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I Want Upside Down Maps

#1 Post by Spock » Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:22 am

and NO!! Simply turning them around to look at them from the north won't work because I want the geographic features names and all that to be put on the maps so they are read that way from the beginning.

I told the kids that my lottery dream( besides the previously mentioned here dream of getting a new gold key combine where I drive it off the assembly line) is some combination of English Study/Library/Trophy Room/Map Room. The map room is a new addition. But I decided that not only do I want conventional maps, I want upside down maps that are specially created to look at them from the north. That would be a fun way to blow your mind and I wonder how long it would take to get used to them.

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Re: I Want Upside Down Maps

#2 Post by jarnon » Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:22 am

Spock wrote:
Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:22 am
English Study/Library/Trophy Room/Map Room
with a bottle of fine Scotch!

I like maps like this too:

World Map Generator

If it’s accurate, then when you look east, you’re facing your favourite African hunting grounds, and when you look west, you’re facing Australia. Maybe your kids can get you a fancy printout for your gentleman’s cave.
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Re: I Want Upside Down Maps

#3 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Jan 28, 2025 11:16 am

Spock wrote:
Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:22 am
and NO!! Simply turning them around to look at them from the north won't work because I want the geographic features names and all that to be put on the maps so they are read that way from the beginning.

I told the kids that my lottery dream( besides the previously mentioned here dream of getting a new gold key combine where I drive it off the assembly line) is some combination of English Study/Library/Trophy Room/Map Room. The map room is a new addition. But I decided that not only do I want conventional maps, I want upside down maps that are specially created to look at them from the north. That would be a fun way to blow your mind and I wonder how long it would take to get used to them.
Maybe you can find them from Australia.
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Re: I Want Upside Down Maps

#4 Post by Spock » Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:52 pm

jarnon wrote:
Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:22 am
Spock wrote:
Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:22 am
English Study/Library/Trophy Room/Map Room
with a bottle of fine Scotch!

I like maps like this too:

World Map Generator

If it’s accurate, then when you look east, you’re facing your favourite African hunting grounds, and when you look west, you’re facing Australia. Maybe your kids can get you a fancy printout for your gentleman’s cave.
Ooh, I forgot about Scotch. Yep.

Re-African hunting grounds.

Craig Boddington is easily the most well-known modern African hunters. Many books and countless articles. I doubt that he could even come up with an accurate count of how many times he has been to Africa since 1977. One fun thing is that he writes a book every ten years about the last ten years of African hunts.

In a very recent article-he said that it is an easy anwer when asked about his favorite African hunt. Oddly enough, it is a hunt in southern Chad in about 2000. For a country that we think of as mostly desert, apparently there is a lot of savanna and wildlife in southern Chad.

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Re: I Want Upside Down Maps

#5 Post by Bob Juch » Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:29 pm

Spock wrote:
Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:52 pm
jarnon wrote:
Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:22 am
Spock wrote:
Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:22 am
English Study/Library/Trophy Room/Map Room
with a bottle of fine Scotch!

I like maps like this too:

World Map Generator

If it’s accurate, then when you look east, you’re facing your favourite African hunting grounds, and when you look west, you’re facing Australia. Maybe your kids can get you a fancy printout for your gentleman’s cave.
Ooh, I forgot about Scotch. Yep.

Re-African hunting grounds.

Craig Boddington is easily the most well-known modern African hunters. Many books and countless articles. I doubt that he could even come up with an accurate count of how many times he has been to Africa since 1977. One fun thing is that he writes a book every ten years about the last ten years of African hunts.

In a very recent article-he said that it is an easy anwer when asked about his favorite African hunt. Oddly enough, it is a hunt in southern Chad in about 2000. For a country that we think of as mostly desert, apparently there is a lot of savanna and wildlife in southern Chad.
The best-known mid-century hunter was, of course, Capt. Spaulding.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.

Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.

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