the united states of america

ALASKA - Aluetian Islands are frequently left off and misspelled.
ARKANSAS - Has two indentions: One in the northeast corner and one in the southwest.
DELAWARE - Is this really a state?
FLORIDA - That little part that juts up into Georgia a bit.
GEORGIA - See above
HAWAII - Oahu and three other little circles does not make a map of Hawaii.
IOWA - Has a sizable bulge on the eastern side.
MISSOURI - don't forget the boot heel!

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.tremble.com/scribblins/images/us_of_ra.gif
http://www.tremble.com/scribblins/meet021027.html

― Electronic Bugaloo, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/ElectoralCollege1956-Large.png/400px-ElectoralCollege1956-Large.png

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link

racist aunt OTM

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link

Man, some of those old electoral maps look strange in today's context.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link

MINNESOTA - That little tic of a state park that you can only get to via Canada.
NEVADA - Has six sides, not four.
NEW MEXICO - The panhandle down near El Paso.
NEW YORK - Long Island, surprisingly enough. It's like the Tasmania of the Empire State.
SOUTH DAKOTA - Not a perfect rectangle, thanks to the Missouri River.
WEST VIRGINIA - Wheeling is not in Ohio.
WISCONSIN - Does not have an upper peninsula.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link

No one should be this far away from a bagel

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.massinc.org/fileadmin/images/onlineexclusives/beyond_red_blue/large_map_with_labels.jpg

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link

LOOK OUT DENVER!

http://www.youngexplorers.com/images/Y414377B.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/snowprob/snowpt2/nortamer.gif

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.usfieldhockey.com/tour/usa_powley_map_bg.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link

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Portland, TN, and Portland, IN, get more hits than Portland, ME?

― budo jeru, Sunday, 30 April 2023 14:50 (eleven months ago) link

calling bs on this, no one in massachusetts even knows theres a Princeton MA except maybe people in worcester county

― ciderpress, Sunday, 30 April 2023 16:51 (eleven months ago) link

yeah the radius for ones that are major or famous city vs tiny towns seems too big, are people in indianapolis really talking about Boston, IN more than Boston, MA

― ciderpress, Sunday, 30 April 2023 16:56 (eleven months ago) link

I'd put the order in Little Rock at 1.) Springfield, Mo., 2.) Springfield, Ill., 3.) and then Springfield, Mass., followed finally by 4.) Springfield, Ark., wherever the hell that is.

― pplains, Sunday, 30 April 2023 18:50 (eleven months ago) link

yeah, i assure you no one who has ever mentioned "miami" to me meant miami, missouri, population 175

― circles, Monday, 1 May 2023 05:03 (eleven months ago) link

"In most US counties, Florence usually refers to Florence (Italy)."

Ha! I was talking to a travel agent last night about flying into Rome and asked if Florence was easier and he said "Well there are a lot of Florences"

― But who are we doing it versus? (sunny successor), Monday, 1 May 2023 18:22 (eleven months ago) link

I have been to Florence, Oregon and it has the advantage of actually being named Florence.

As opposed to the one in Italy.

― Ice cubist (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 1 May 2023 20:29 (eleven months ago) link

one month passes...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxtnqheWwAEcLGL?format=jpg

― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 June 2023 17:38 (ten months ago) link

― ciderpress, Saturday, 3 June 2023 17:51 (ten months ago) link

two months pass...

https://tenpages.github.io/us-level/us.html

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:07 (seven months ago) link

level 54 I think, based on what I remember of travelling across the states 30 years ago, plus a couple of other trips.

― crutch of england (ledge), Saturday, 2 September 2023 18:34 (seven months ago) link

I'm at 96, overwhelmingly from coastal visits/stays. I've only ever lived in two states: Missouri and Virginia.

― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 2 September 2023 19:02 (seven months ago) link

Level 129, although tbh I'm not sure of the difference between "Visited Here" and "Stayed Here." There are only a handful of states I haven't at least passed through, mainly West Virginia and most of New England.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 2 September 2023 19:08 (seven months ago) link

i interpret “stayed” as stayed with friends or family and “visited” like you stayed there but you were a tourist in an airbnb or a hotel

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 2 September 2023 19:14 (seven months ago) link

Yeah, that was pretty much how I applied it, although if it was like one night crashing with friends I usually put "visited." I camped in NC one night, put "visited."

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 2 September 2023 19:16 (seven months ago) link

Now that I think of it, I've camped in NC several times lol

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 2 September 2023 19:17 (seven months ago) link

i feel like living in tx should be worth more than 5 points

― oatly carmichael (m bison), Saturday, 2 September 2023 19:58 (seven months ago) link

I couldn't pass through there fast enough.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 2 September 2023 20:02 (seven months ago) link

137, but I was a traveling bum/rubber tramp for a few years there.

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 2 September 2023 20:25 (seven months ago) link

126

― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 September 2023 22:45 (seven months ago) link

too much work to figure out.

― Jeff, Saturday, 2 September 2023 22:47 (seven months ago) link

186 (been to all 50 states, driven across the country nine times)

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 2 September 2023 22:50 (seven months ago) link

\m/

― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 September 2023 23:01 (seven months ago) link

95 which i think is pretty good going for not having lived there since 2006

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 3 September 2023 11:41 (seven months ago) link

https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/25/20/d8bbe4e643b48c826390e8e0caee/020n10174-b67fg.jpg

― budo jeru, Sunday, 3 September 2023 12:19 (seven months ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/8oAjIiv.png

The whole "visited here / stayed here" thing threw me off too. I "stayed" in a motel room in Ohio once before continuing the drive into Kentucky the next day while I have "visited" Georgia, spending most of a day touring the Coca-Cola and Carter museums in Atlanta. Should Ohio be worth more points? I finally decided no.

Poor Maryland and Delaware the only states where I don't think my feet ever touched the ground. They're very easy to drive through.

I really need to hit the Northwest sometime.

― pplains, Sunday, 3 September 2023 13:46 (seven months ago) link

budo jeru i love that

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:38 (seven months ago) link

Westermann never provided any meaning or subjective interpretation to his various works, stating "It puzzles me, too,"

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 3 September 2023 15:39 (seven months ago) link

― budo jeru, Sunday, 3 September 2023 21:46 (seven months ago) link

129 or 113 depending on how the vist/stay is interpreted.

someday i need to fly into Memphis and drive a loop through ms, ar, ok, ks, and mo in one day and then to Boston to tick off the rest

― joygoat, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 17:46 (seven months ago) link

That would not be a fun day.

― pplains, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 18:57 (seven months ago) link

xp but why?

― Esteemed character actress (sunny successor), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:19 (seven months ago) link

one month passes...

pic.twitter.com/qpNrGKN68n
— Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps) October 7, 2023

― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 October 2023 13:18 (six months ago) link

one month passes...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_RpeTfW4AAl3rq.jpg:small

― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 November 2023 08:29 (four months ago) link

that fuckin gnome book

i mistrusted it and i still do

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 November 2023 16:35 (four months ago) link

Tracer, David Bowie is here to help you. Make yourself at... gnome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SQdBxVjZx4

― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 19 November 2023 17:05 (four months ago) link

I mean, he came from Gnome-mans-land went to the London School of Eco-gnome-ics.

― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 19 November 2023 17:08 (four months ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:yolf7ufoqzmdjldcblu5zo7m/bafkreidpv7r3x2m53xxhacejthws6gehj7duq2tjuredlfaatbxonjoo2a@jpeg

― rob, Monday, 4 December 2023 18:07 (four months ago) link

important to draw the map freehand

― ciderpress, Monday, 4 December 2023 18:52 (four months ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/3idKVMe.jpg

― z_tbd, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:09 (four months ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/rguqnyN.jpg

― z_tbd, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:58 (four months ago) link

honestly you don't need to pass through the gateway arch in this maze, but you can and it's definitely recommended

― z_tbd, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:59 (four months ago) link

...on second thought, and with even more honesty, i spent 30 seconds overlaying a google map of the US onto the maze, and perhaps the gateway arch is located in the entrance/exit to the right, so perhaps you do need to pass through the gateway arch in this maze. it's difficult to tell because lake michigan was destroyed in the giant usa maze disaster of 2023

― z_tbd, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 18:11 (four months ago) link

It looks like you might need to cross into Mexico briefly, so you will need to bring ID and be prepared to deal with Customs and Immigration.

― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 19:30 (four months ago) link

BUILD THE MAZE

― rob, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 22:52 (four months ago) link

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