...are four or five main branches: fictional maps, topographical maps, not a map, and political maps (which have two branches, based on the naming of Istanb
Note that it is very hard to even ''find'' Jan Mayen on an actual world map (even a political one), never mind figure out which country it belongs to.
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#REDIRECT [[1759: British Map]]
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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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since Randal Munroe wrote the comic, and he is an american, the map WAS labeled by an american[[User:Jessep13|Jessep13]] ([[User talk:Jessep13|
...what I found most humorous was the reactions to it. Facts: Randall drew a map of Britain, he said it was labeled by an American, and it included both rea
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#REDIRECT [[1784: Bad Map Projection: Liquid Resize]]
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| titletext = This map preserves the shapes of Tissot's indicatrices pretty well, as long as you d
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...ia and Thailand. Maybe they are just unnecessary details according to this map projection. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.238.22|162.158.238.22]] 16:39,
This map proves, once again, that it's good to be an archipelago. Philippines, FTW!
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#REDIRECT [[1799: Bad Map Projection: Time Zones]]
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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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::The switch is just a mistake, maybe caused by a map not depicting Western Sahara.--[[User:Pere prlpz|Pere prlpz]] ([[User talk:
Should we compile a table of oddities in the map?--[[User:Pere prlpz|Pere prlpz]] ([[User talk:Pere prlpz|talk]]) 09:07, 15
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*A series of comics of bad {{w|map projections}}. Such projections (real and invented) is a topic [[Randall]]
...: Madagascator|April 2022]]. The sixth came 15 months later in [[2807: Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude)|July 2023]].
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 | File:1799 Map with Labeled time zones.PNG I created a map overlaid with more obvious time zone divisions, labeled with some of that z
...looks much better than what I had in mind. Would it be OK to download your map to these pages and insert it in the explanation? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[
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#REDIRECT [[1845: State Word Map]]
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This is another of the many comics where [[Randall]] used a map of the United States for his joke (see below for examples).
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The <nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki>misspelling map reference is clear, but the first thing I thought of was all the conclusion
...e included in official explanation, but a couple days before this comic, a map showing the most misspelled words in every state was making the rounds on F
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#REDIRECT [[1852: Election Map]]
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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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*Yup. See map [https://decisiondeskhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/GA06_HOUSE16.png her
...tly toward the blue (and toward the green). So it's not quite clear how to map red/blue districts to redshift/blueshift. But either way, green is not a pr
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#REDIRECT [[1939: 2016 Election Map]]
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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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So why are we getting this map now instead of a year ago? Has something significant to this area just hap
...Conceptually, I don't think it's that different than #1138 (Heatmap) - the map more or less shows population density and fails to easily communicate party
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#REDIRECT [[2108: Carbonated Beverage Language Map]]
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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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...em back. Thanks! In case it disappears again for whatever reason, on the map Punch is literally punching Softie. [[User:N0lqu|-boB]] ([[User talk:N0lqu|
::Interesting. I didn't know that. In this case though, the map is pointing directly at RI. [[User:Cgrimes85|Cgrimes85]] ([[User talk:Cgrim
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#REDIRECT [[2256: Bad Map Projection: South America]]
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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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I overlaid this map on all the projections in https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/977:_M
It's also similar to [[1653: United States Map]], isn't it? [[User:Nedlum|Nedlum]] ([[User talk:Nedlum|talk]]) 15:47, 17 J
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#REDIRECT [[2489: Bad Map Projection: The Greenland Special]]
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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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I want this map, but s/Greenland/Alaska (because that is how big Alaska ''should'' be) [[Us
...and Alaska in programs such as SED. Orion205 want's "The Alaska Special" map projection. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.42.50|172.69.42.50]] 21:32, 15
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#REDIRECT [[2399: 2020 Election Map]]
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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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...e political division in the country is also a geographical division. This map, and the title text, emphasize that, at the scale of the whole country, tha
:: And this map proves that many large areas of the country are still dangerously underpopu
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#REDIRECT [[2528: Flag Map Sabotage]]
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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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Example map (of that of which sabotage might be intended) could be something like: http
Why is Korsika coloured green on this map? It belongs to France. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.93.40|162.158.93.40]
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#REDIRECT [[2613: Bad Map Projection: Madagascator]]
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...lake on the island of Mahé in the Seychelles, which is off the top of the map and larger than the rest of the Earth's land area combined.
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Anyone else want to play this (and the other bad map projections) as maps in a 4X/Grand Strategy game? [[User:Mazz0|Mazz0]] ([[U
...ked at the Wikipedia pages, and there is _no_ reference to Among Us on any map-related pages (and vice versa). What is your problem? [[Special:Contributio
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:[A Map of lakes and oceans showing the depths of various lakes and ocean attribute
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...t to upload the images? Further more: Since hashes from other sites do not map to the new naming here I think we have to document them here. But it seems
...ge I uploaded] and the [http://www.maschek.hu/imagemap/imgmap Online image map editor] markup generator, which was linked from the [https://www.mediawiki.
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...stants questions, provide clues, and tell them which flags to plant on the map in the final round, as well as engage with The Chief and Rockapella to keep
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;Panel 13 ''I love the whole world'' (Map of the internet.)
...munities]], featuring online communities of the time visualized as a world map, with geographic areas representing their approximate membership size. Ther
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...nd ironic upcoming {{w|Tropical cyclone|hurricane}} paths on an unlabelled map of the {{w|Americas}} that shows the region roughly between central {{w|Can
Enters from the east side of the map, wanders around the {{w|Atlantic Ocean}} in a scribble that seems to take t
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Why does the explanation say the tile map is incorrect? The tile pattern looks fine to me, it’s just not rotated. A
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| titletext = What's that? You think I don't like the Peters map because I'm uncomfortable with having my cultural assumptions challenged? A
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#REDIRECT [[977: Map Projections]]
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#REDIRECT [[977: Map Projections]]
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...n's death}}. The sunglasses joke was also used in the title text of [[977: Map Projections]]. The counts of each letter (Y E A H) in the scream are 1, 6,
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...later. It would, though, be a more interesting cake if it looked like the map in [[256: Online Communities]], but that came out 20 weeks later. Another p
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...ight Rand McNally map for the year). Participants would "drive" around the map, collecting clues and answering questions, and the like. [[Special:Contribu
...and bonus points for how quickly you could identify where you were on the map, starting from the mostzoomed in point. My son, then ten years old, scored
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#[[:Category:Bad Map Projections|Bad Map Projections]]
...ar four comics have been released over more than four years, but given the Map projectons have numbers 79, 108, 299 and 358 there could be many more to co
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...about cunnilingus, the Obama endorsement, and my making 4chan tiny on the map of online communities". The comic about {{w|cunnilingus}} is [[136: Science
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...{w|Cantor diagonalization}} is a famous proof that it is impossible to map objects from an uncountable set one-to-one with objects from a countable s
...masses displayed to his left. 9 hurricane symbols are scattered across the map, primarily over the Greater and Lesser Antilles.]
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...the scale should be approximately 32 pixels per 5 feet, making the entire map 25920 feet wide (4.9 miles or 7.9 kilometers) by 10240 feet tall (1.9 miles
*http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/ [alternate if above doesn't work] (zoom controls, scroll-zo
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...es already, you can change the code to use your local files) and you get a map of the world.
This is the best full-size view of the comic: http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/ [[Special:Contributions/77.191.21.108|77.191.21.108]] 15:02
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...n why Randall chose cos(x) over sin(x)? Is there a y-axis somewhere on the map? Not that it matters; just curious... [[User:Bobidou23|Bobidou23]] ([[User
...n b could be chosen to make the wave length fit with the path shown in the map.
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...g it to light. For rather important facts (like where your country is on a map), not knowing them would be a sign of complete obliviousness. This comic se
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#2017 February 13th and 15th: [[1798: Box Plot]] and [[1799: Bad Map Projection: Time Zones]].
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...that looks like a crossword puzzle, is similar to the way that a Karnaugh map is used on a Boolean truth table, to identify areas that can be simplified.
The fourth picture shows a Karnaugh map that Cueball wishes he could find in the future to solve the matrix of desi
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* [[195: Map of the Internet]] --I've always liked this view of the internet
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...=19|Y=25|W=106|H=37|image=circuit_diagram-019-025-106-037-scale.png|text=A map scale. Lists kilometers and miles as equivalent. (And makes the diagram man
...=circuit_diagram-052-141-079-107-compass-points.png|text=Compass points. A map feature, not a circuit feature, but possibly useful given the circuit is ma
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else totaling total (tail menu) ++ map (
total > 0 | orders (tail menu) total ++ map (
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The map almost certainly depicts the United States, with the locations highlighted
:[There is a linked black web, with a path in red; it appears to be a map of the United States.]
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:Cueball: It's ''right there''. I can see the UPS building on the map.
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...where there is rainfall. The information from the radar is then shown on a map. In this case green means light rain while red or white represent very heav
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...ithout regard to income, race, party designation, etc. It would change the map drastically.
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*'''Site of Battle of 4.108''' is another map joke, implying that 4.108 is an actual location, where an eponymous battle
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...Sea, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf (seas are grey). Oman is not on this map as it is not situated on the Persian Gulf; it's on the Gulf of Oman and on
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if (data[1]) response($(data[1]).map(function(index, item) {
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| titletext = There are also a lot of global versions of this map showing traffic to English-language websites which are indistinguishable fr
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...t. A map of where furry porn is appreciated would therefore also be a Heat map. {{unsigned|Godel Fishbreath| 15:14, 17 May 2013 (UTC)}}
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...results. See below the [[#Table of items in the map|table of items in the map]].
...d the lack of detail may be because the people who asked them to draw this map were beginning to 'look impatient' since they did not get the expected igno
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...ls of American geographical ignorance (X% of Americans can't locate Y on a map!) rather than jokey maps about cultural stereotypes.[[Special:Contributions
...n". If you compare the red area of India in the comic's map with an actual map of India (e.g. this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Political_map_of
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...ineer. Can you look around for someone wearing cargo pants, maybe a subway map on their wall?
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...e is X7. Any corner would do, so X1, X3 and X9 are also optimal moves. The map for X has a big red X7 (650×650 pixels), and the 8 remaining grids ha
The map for O has more combinations, because in this case X is not assumed to be op
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...otice the dark branching lines that much resemble the rivers on a globe or map. --[[User:Para|Para]] ([[User talk:Para|talk]]) 20:32, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
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...(result is symmetric) X has to block and O can hold a draw. Just see the ''Map for O'' part. --[[User:Chtz|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz|talk]]) 21:40, 23 July
...Tac Toe strategy, and I think that the explanation should start with "Each map shows every possible combination of moves which will result in that side no
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Cueball asking if anyone has a subway map in their cubicle is likely a reference to Subways (http://xkcd.com/1196/) w
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The shot map shows from what position Curry's shots were scored compared to other NBA pl
:'''Shot map'''
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...and Mana won the game where it wasn't, and it could only play on a certain map in Protoss vs Protoss. However, that was a while ago. Google dropped AlphaS
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...ations, or any name, however long forgotten about? because, looking at the map of Lexington, you will see that there are NO highways named after president
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Is unexplored a map reference? [[User:Halfhat|Halfhat]] ([[User talk:Halfhat|talk]]) 17:53, 13
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*****And [[Bad Map Projection: Time Zones]] used a ''2x'' to indicate the size also added to t
****[[977: Map Projections]]
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...y all of Delaware, the eastern part of Maryland and (not indicated on this map) the southern tip belongs to Virginia. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.
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:[Three people are standing around a map. One of them is pushing something with a stick.]
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| titletext = In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.
...ship) are marked. Gandalf, especially at the beginning, jumps all over the map in a short time. Eagles appear and then disappear a couple of times. Treebe
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