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...ider that seagulls, staplers, tubas, or breadboxes could be mistaken for a map. Randall also mentions US President {{w|Jimmy Carter}} being [https://en.wi
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...lowcharts|often used in xkcd]] including the (mostly) non-farcical [[1688: Map Age Guide]] one week prior to this comic. Inefficiency (another xkcd theme)
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...tphone game, where players walk around the real world, guided by a virtual map sprinkled with {{w|Pokémon}}, trying to find and capture these creatures f
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...n of people who likes the {{w|Dymaxion map|Dymaxion projection}} in [[977: Map Projections]] as well as in the title text of [[296: Tony Hawk]]. || || ||
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...can be seen; but also in [[1286: Encryptic]] and more recently in [[1688: Map Age Guide]].
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...y areas are labeled as ice.] || 18300 BCE || -4.2 || This [[:Category:Maps|map]] shows where the ice covered the {{w|northern hemisphere}} (and Antarctica
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| titletext = Use your mouse or fingers to pan + zoom. To edit the map, submit your ballot on November 6th.
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...c. This has been used before in [[850: World According to Americans]]. The map also plays with the joke by noting it has been labeled by [[Randall Munroe|
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...en Cueball discovers an apparent pattern in the new posts, starting with a map of hardware stores and culminating in blueprints for the {{w|Tower of Londo
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[[Randall]] has taken a {{w|map}} of {{w|the United States of America}} labeled "Geography Challenge: Name
This comic is similar to [[1759: British Map]]. Also note that the text at the top of the comic is not in all caps.
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...Resize]] (#107). It was followed almost three years later with [[2256: Bad Map Projection: South America]] (#358).
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...ear Launch Facility'', depicted with a {{w|Google Map|Google Maps}}-styled map page along with a series of so-called reviews. (There does exist a {{w|Cany
...t is a ribbon rather than a point, it could not have a single point on the map. Also, the jet stream fluctuates north and south; so even if it could be pi
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...System}} (which operates on a similar principle as LORAN) featured moving map displays, something we associate with modern GPS devices.
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...ng parts of it). Different {{w|map projection}}s can distort different {{w|Map projection#Metric properties of maps|metric properties}}, such as distances
...quator}}. A common complaint is that {{w|Greenland}} appears as big on the map as {{w|Africa}}, when Africa actually has 14 times as much area as Greenlan
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...axy move along our sightline, images that look not very different from the map Cueball shows. If one side of the image is higher redshifted while the othe
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On the map, the center of the greatest eclipse is shown on the border between {{w|Illi
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[[Cueball]] comes to tell [[Megan]] about a cool map showing that searches on Google on the word Eclipse trace the same path acr
...tps://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2017/08/eclipse.png cool map]" is hosted by ''{{w|The Washington Post}}'' and sourced from {{w|Google Tr
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:[An orbital map of the Earth is shown. The Sun is in the center, the Earth is at the right
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...epending on the ensemble member. The graph at the left bottom is a typical map of isobars (lines of equal {{w|Atmospheric pressure|pressure}}) for various
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...would tend to ignore these practical concerns and pay more attention to a map looking orderly.
...one which is enlarged in the map, the Florida one which is removed in the map, and maybe others such as the Texas region known as the "Texas panhandle")
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...f that, they have all the problems of a chloro... chorophl... chloropet... map with areas colored in.
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:Megan: And "Why did I leave my phone at home? It has my map and flashlight."
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...is the {{w|drainage divide}}, but these divides are hard to recognize on a map and rarely used to define a real border.
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** A map of everything - links to [[1196: Subways]], a map of the subways of North America, which are apparently "everything" for Amer
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...e "forecast area" is a clearly defined area of land and can be seen in the map of any official NWS forecast. [https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?la
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{{comicsrow|2807|2023-07-26|Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude)|bad map projection abs longitude 2x.png}}
{{comicsrow|2613|2022-03-29|Bad Map Projection: Madagascator|bad map projection madagascator.png}}
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This is an actual map of the area around {{w|Brookhaven National Laboratory}}, with east at the t
...le maps style "store" locator pin. The following labels are written on the map.]
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...bverted this plot device by showing Ponytail call for a GIS survey team to map out the result of the disaster. Instead of panicking for survival, the scie
...nel=legend&basemap_gallery=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light an ArcGIS map] of the mentioned 2018 lower Puna eruption.
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...meone directions, that line isn't an object in real life; it's just on the map. If these lines were real, they would be ''huge'' (Earth's would be 940 mil
...tter in the universe, according to NASA, is equivalent to roughly [https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_matter.html 1 proton per 4 cubic meters]. And be
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...itting presented doesn't make any sense. The graphs could represent a star map, the votes for the latest elected presidents, or your recent invoices on po
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In mathematics, an {{w|isometric mapping}} (between metric spaces) is a map that keeps all the distances intact. If we measure the distance the same wa
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...ht direction in the real world - a very useful feature if you're using the map for navigating. However, preserving the angle leads to severe distortions o
...jections are generally {{w|continuous function}}s, meaning that they never map a {{w|disconnected space}} onto a connected one and therefore can never giv
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The image was originally posted as an indexed image with only a 3-color map (white, black, and grey), leading to graphical artifacts in place of a smoo
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...-pop-or-coke-maps-of-regional-dialect-variation-in-the-united-states/ this map on Laughing Squid]. Such maps were trending and popular in 2013.
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...and in different places. Used improperly, it can simply [[1845:_State Word Map|amplify random noise]].
...has created several Google Trends maps of search activity in the US. Each map colors in states according to which of two (or more) search queries was mor
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...rica to end up in the Antarctic sea below the tip of South America. On the map to the left there is a similar red line indicating the Panama Canal crossin
*This is the second comic in a row with a [[:Category:Maps|map based theme]]. Randall likes maps.
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An alternative explanation is that the keys actually map to the {{w|International Phonetic Alphabet}} and converts what you type int
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***There's a larger version of this map [http://xkcd.com/1079/large/ here] (Colorado is [http://xkcd.com/1079/color
***There's a larger version of this map [http://xkcd.com/1079/large/ here]! It's also available as a [https://store
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...even digits of precision, includes the caveat that, while your coordinates map to areas small enough on the Earth's surface to indicate pointing to a spec
...ke a country, a mountain range, a large lake, or a significant island on a map of the world. It can also be used to tell if certain celestial phenomena ar
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Each of the text warnings within the map are coloured, which matches the [https://www.weather.gov/bro/mapcolors NWS
...e of the frame are given in square brackets. [https://www.weather.gov/help-map This page from the NWS] lists all the warnings and colors, including all th
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...re a few lines of text. Then a drawing of a torn map (like an old treasure map whit a X at the end of a trail marked with dots. Mountains indicated with s
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Megan's delay of two weeks would map to about eight nanometers on the football field. The most powerful {{w|ele
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...Earth 1 to 1 in a simulation), there are some games that attempt to have a map that is similar in area or graphics that look as detailed as reality. Howev
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...chniques to get around obstacles, to models that generate a general mental map of the area and contents and attempt to be deliberate in passing over all r
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...w|DOSBox}} makes a request to access disc storage, the emulator will often map the command to a file or file system on the enveloping computing environmen
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...constructed anywhere with local materials, and would not be marked on any map known to the robots, which are both positives for surviving the onset of th
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...king way (such as the lat, lon and zoom level giving the focus of a Google Map link) and it isn't always obvious which parts are which - or both tied toge
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This comic depicts a map of the world using the {{w|Winkel tripel projection}}, comparing the thickn
...e also under sea level (the continental shelf). These are the areas on the map that are marked as having thicker ground that appear to be over the ocean (
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...that change size and proportions (possibly turning into ellipses) based on map distortion. As a tattoo, that would be useful in tracking any distortion of
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...he first). And was first followed one and a half year later by [[2489: Bad Map Projection: The Greenland Special]] (#299).
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...es Reaction Face]", "Reaction Gif", and other memes). The words "Reaction Map" in Chemistry refer to a diagram that shows how compounds react to form dif
...43e6372e0009:0x1372621459655543!2m2!1d-95.4597276!2d29.0382495!3e0 list of map destinations], Truly (MT), Saari (MI), Toulouse (KY), A (WV), {{w|Friendshi
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|Where's Hilbert?||[[195: Map of the Internet]] (maybe incomplete)|| Hilbert Curve || loot_021.png ||
|Istanbul or Constantinople or St. Trimble's Island?||[[1688: Map Age Guide]]||Cephalopod||loot_071.png||
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...searches for COVID, it's entirely possible for multiple points in time to map to the same value of ''x'' (although none of the curves shown here do, Scen
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:[A close-up of Megan's face. The screen now shows a habitat map, with four separate shaded areas enclosed in a dotted line. The dotted line
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...s similar in idea to [[977: Map Projections]], where it was your choice of map projections that could tell something about you.
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...s missing from xkcd 2394.png|thumb|300px|The states missing from the comic map.]]
...in inset maps, separate sections usually placed at the bottom of the main map.
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...ill. She is holding a hand palm up towards the board behind her, showing a map with Africa in the center and some other continents at the edges of the vie
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...th America]] (#358), and was followed about 10 months later by [[2613: Bad Map Projection: Madagascator]] (#248).
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...s|Oops! All Berries}}, which has been previously referenced in [[2256: Bad Map Projection: South America]].
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This is a sequel to an earlier comic, [[1939: 2016 Election Map]]. The United States elects its president not directly by popular vote but
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...(map)|maps}} and {{w|globe}}s. What Randall has here, though, is neither a map nor a model but a seemingly complete copy of {{w|Earth}}, at a 1:10,000 sca
...re of it, the reputed [http://www.mapascotland.org/ largest outdoor relief map in the world] is set out at a horizontal scale of 1:10,000.
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...he following rules is written near a character or point of interest on the map.]
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...he following rules is written near a character or point of interest on the map.]
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...ave three inputs (x_1,y_1,z_1), and want to understand the iterates of the map
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...}} showing the planets in the {{w|solar system}}. Cartograms are a type of map in which geographic area is displayed proportionately to some secondary cha
...s, Democrats and Republicans, is about 50-50, most of the area of the U.S. map is shown in the color associated with the Republican Party, red. That's bec
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...38: Heatmap]], where Cueball makes inferences simply based on a population map of the US, instead of statistical evidence.
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...or towns with the same name as other more famous places. For example, the map has a dot for a relatively unknown place called Los Angeles, located in Tex
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...p would cause people to misinterpret this legend as applying to the entire map, giving wildly false information about regions of other countries. This tri
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...nal manifold, because a small-enough area is indistinguishable from a flat map. Using manifolds as an example of impenetrably occult maths may be a nod to
...usually have to be of the same type; it is unclear how a hypergroup would map to a "conjection".
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...ng wrong directions can happen, for example, due to outdated or incomplete map data. Sometimes users can file an error report with the provider of the nav
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