Ep: 2 The world of make believe maps and Keri Davies from BBC The Archers

Map Corner Episode 3

In this episode we have calls from

1. Cynthia 35 – who has a question of technicality in relation to counting the countries we have visited
2. Mary Not Contrary – who is interested in Topography
3. Keri Davis – who has an answer to Barb’s question about 6 figure OS references
4. Also in Answers to Questions, we had an early question from Alison about paper maps and teaching geography with paper maps

On the Facebook Page – membership continues to grow

We have had a proliferation of British maps there including stalwarts like

1. How to describe a bread roll,
2. Where people with your surname live http://named.publicprofiler.org/?fbclid=IwAR3VkmWNJXkNWFGXobKIZJvtF8N2CVhcLbSYLmWKa3sQFgxRvl5LVPeyhG4
3. Google autocompletes, might be worth testing this! https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/5j0xyr/english_counties_according_to_google/
4. Who is the best selling recording artist from each county https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/95jmaq/popularbest_selling_artists_by_english_county_of/ (Rutland has NO-ONE!) Wikipedia search Sam Carter http://samcartermusic.co.uk/

Star of the week on Facebook was Neal Sommer who scored a mighty 7/10 on the Guardian quiz to identify cities by their population density. This was a tricky quiz which stumped many people. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/19/quiz-identify-world-cities-density-maps-alone?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard&fbclid=IwAR1W-zSobf8PPfEtg6FFKrf5e_RtatEEYroCdO1KyOPo0uQ_aWfkoP9RyU8

And Roifield posted another devilishly difficult quiz – the Geoguesser https://geoguessr.com/?fbclid=IwAR3Wg6uLPORfClOl8tKGfJ-xDMQt5gSdRxz0-lqGIyqNyp6yG4x7EPz3jUc

On #Mapcorner on Twitter

A few transit maps including Relf with the roman roads of Spain & Portugal http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/the-roman-roads-of-spain-portugal-visualized-as-a-subway-map.html and Kosmo shared a TFL tube style map of London’s road network https://twitter.com/Heidi_LDN/status/1106554832947724289 .

I took an interest in maps relating to fast food outlets – we will work that up for something on the podcast in a future episode.

My favourite map of this week was Alison sharing Simon Keustenmacher’s tweet about the manhole covers in Oklahoma City. They all have a map of the city on them but best of all each one shows you where you are on that map. https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1109101180469370881

And best worst map of the week was shared by Roifield on Twitter and Simone Liuzzi on Facebook – the ordering preferences of countries in Africa https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/907411725313613824

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