cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/352423
Alt Text: 1 Guy: No one buys maps anymore. My career is over. 2 crumples up map and throws it 3 Guy, looking at crumpled up map: Wait a minute… 4 Guy selling globes
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I like the implication that globes were invented after electric lamps.
Earth has been proven to be spherical in 5th century BC, right? Do we have traces of globes made back when half of the Earth hasn’t been well known?
If we do, looking at must’ve felt pretty weird to the people living back then.
It’s fascinating that they expanded the known landmass to cover the sphere instead of leaving the unknown area blank or oceanic. I wonder if Columbus saw this globe and figured it couldn’t be hard to get to India because of it, while everyone actually educated knew the planet was far bigger than that, with a much bigger gap.
I recently bought physical maps. Trying to get off using GPS to get around. There was a study that was conducted that GPS affects the parts of the brains.
Physical maps don’t have worry about batteries or internet connection or connection to the GPS satellites. A physical map keeps working until it has been destroyed.
Does it still count if you use a maps app in the same way, not necessarily utilizing the navigation feature of the app?
I learned how to read a map in the early 2000s when I delivered flowers on Mother’s Day for some quick money as a teenager, right before GPS apps became ubiquitous. I can usually figure out a route simply by looking at the map in the app for a second or three to locate the major cross-streets.
Improvise, Adapt, Overcome
