Worst Map Ever?
Written by Chad on January 26th, 2007I came across this on wikipedia… I don’t think I have come across a worse map than this one.
It looks like it was done in MSPaint… Just hurts the eyes to even look at it.
Anyone come across anything worse than this they want to share?
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My bet is that someone “traced” a copyrighted map in MS Paint to make one that they can claim is PD for wikipedia.
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Hum, think my daughter could do better in Paint than that.
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Why? Why? WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!
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different style
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saladin
…the wikipedia page in question, in case someone wants to submit something better.
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I’ll play contrarian and say that despite its obvious aesthetic short-comings, this map troubles me not in the least.
Why? Because the simplistic rendering sends a clear signal how much time I should spend with the map and the degree of confidence I should put in the visual information i.e. take it for what it is and move on.
I’m much more concerned by very slick maps that visually mis-represent data to serve a polemical point, or have measuring tools that show map units to nine decimal places, or “heat maps” that create continuous surfaces of phenomena that does not occur continuously in the real world, etc., etc., etc.
Brian
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at least they tried…when humanity sneers at sincere effort perhaps they wish for no effort on their behalf at all…(c)
…sound like a bunch that are handed everything….what are you going to do if the hander peters out?…