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Tag: xkcd

xkcd’s Liquid Resize Map Projection

Published on 11 January 2017 by Jonathan Crowe
Randall Munroe, “Bad Map Projection: Liquid Resize,” 11 January 2017. xkcd.

Every so often Randall Monroe puts up a map-related xkcd cartoon, and each time I dutifully post about it. This morning’s is called “Bad Map Projection: Liquid Resize.” Or: when Photoshop algorithms attack.

Image•Categories Art•Tags comics, funny, map projections, xkcd

xkcd’s U.S. State Names

Published on 2 December 2016 by Jonathan Crowe
Randall Munroe,
Randall Munroe, “U.S. State Names,” 2 December 2016. xkcd.

Randall is messing with us again in today’s xkcd, which assigns malapropisms and synophones to U.S. state names. The results are about what you’d expect.

Previously: xkcd’s United States Map.

Link•Categories Unusual Maps•Tags comics, funny, USA, xkcd

xkcd’s British Map

Published on 14 November 2016 by Jonathan Crowe

Today’s xkcd is a British map labelled by an American. It’s another one of those where the longer you stare at it, the more it hurts. Randall’s messing with us again.

Image•Categories Art•Tags comics, funny, UK, xkcd

xkcd’s Map Age Guide

Published on 1 June 2016 by Jonathan Crowe
Randall Munroe, “Map Age Guide,” 1 June 2016. xkcd.

Today’s xkcd is a flowchart for figuring out the age of an undated world map. Look carefully.

Link•Categories Uncategorised•Tags funny, xkcd

xkcd’s United States Map

Published on 9 March 201620 April 2016 by Jonathan Crowe

Today’s xkcd is a map of the United Sta—wait … what has Randall done? My eyes … they’re bleeding.

Link•Categories Unusual Maps•Tags funny, USA, xkcd

‘Basically Just Population Maps’

Published on 12 February 2016 by Jonathan Crowe
“Heatmap” by Randall Munroe (xkcd)

In response to The End of Maps in Seven Charts, Duncan Jackson writes to point out the above xkcd comic from 23 November 2012, which says something quite similar about maps that really just show population density.

Image•Categories Unusual Maps•Tags comics, map design, xkcd

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