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Location: from houstoner to bostoner to new yorker to new jerseyite ;)
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Originally Posted by NowInWI
Good for you - most of the kids I knew looked at National Geographic for the naked pictures!!!
Haha! No, this was the kids' version of NG, now called NG Kids. http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ No naked tribespeople there! Oh yeah, I also loved finding these places on the globe, and spinning it around!
Calling all mapmaniacs! New England Cartographics (www.necartographics.com or PO Box 9369, North Amherst, MA 01059) sells recycled US Geographic Survey maps as stationery. Absolutely wonderful stuff--and since I discovered them, plain white paper has become extinct at my place.
Calling all mapmaniacs! New England Cartographics (www.necartographics.com or PO Box 9369, North Amherst, MA 01059) sells recycled US Geographic Survey maps as stationery. Absolutely wonderful stuff--and since I discovered them, plain white paper has become extinct at my place.
I don't live in New England. Do you think there is a cartographic society for the South?
Well I guess Im not alone.... There are some fun geography quizes on facebook and some in google... all the other Geography geeks will love them.
Most of the 'geography quizzes' online I've found were pretty much for schoolkids to arrange the states where they belong on the map...not exactly what I was looking for
WOW! I am not alone! You guys dont know how much this makes me feel like I am not the oddest person in the world.
We got an Enclopedia Britannica when I was 5 and it had a huge world atlas that was about as tall as I was. I fell in love with it then. When I entered first grade I amazed my teachers that I knew each state and capital.
Yikes! I think I got that same set of Britannicas with the BIG atlas. I got mine at age 10 after years of pestering my parents for an encyclopedia that wasn't so out of date. Besides maps and population statistics, the Big atlas had mineral, metals, and food production statistics. I had much enjoyment poring over those maps.
WOW! I am not alone! You guys dont know how much this makes me feel like I am not the oddest person in the world.
We got an Enclopedia Britannica when I was 5 and it had a huge world atlas that was about as tall as I was. I fell in love with it then. When I entered first grade I amazed my teachers that I knew each state and capital.
I go to the Barnes and Noble and pour over the new Rand McNallys to see what has changed from the previous year. I have about six here at the house. When I am bored, I pull out an old one and get the newest one and see what road has been four laned, what suburbs have annexed land, etc, etc.
I even used to take old metro Atlanta maps and get colored pencils and help the suburbs annex more land to make them look bigger and better. The Atlanta maps always looked sad compared to other metro areas in the road atlases because the counties have such power and keep the suburbs from annexing as freely as can be done in most other parts of the country.
I have a map in my head. When I meet a person, I find where they live and it goes in my brain map. I may forget everything else about them, their name, what they do, etc, but I can remember where they live or where they are from. Once on a trip, I passed thru the tiny town of Gordo, AL. I immediately could see the face of a girl from college that was from there. Couldn't bring up her name to save my life, but I put the face and the town together.
I am a certified map freak. Wish I had a degree that I could put that knowledge to some kind of practical use in a job.
You had two years on me. I watched Where in the world is Carmen San Diego when I was five. I started getting into maps when I was about six or seven, but never learned the state capitals until I was eight.
You can get a G.I.S. degree. I am a G.I.S. major myself.
You had two years on me. I watched Where in the world is Carmen San Diego when I was five. I started getting into maps when I was about six or seven, but never learned the state capitals until I was eight.
You can get a G.I.S. degree. I am a G.I.S. major myself.
Me as well, and am now putting that degree to use.
Since you are a G.I.S. major, you can now tell me the difference between a projected coordinate system, vs a geographic coordinate system! And, you likely know who Jack Dangermond is.
It's not a society--it's a business. They buy government maps and turn them into stationery.
My mistake.
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