I thank you!
No list of bad maps is complete without this submission from The New Yorker
Which has led to salvos the other direction:
Here’s a Silicon Valley version.
Our podiatrist has a DC version in one of his exam rooms but I don’t know how to find an online version. A couple of similar ones can be found here but not that particular version.
There is a book out there “How to Lie with Maps” Didn’t by it, it would look really, really bad in a GIS office.
My wife is an actuary, and (back before everyone went WFH) always made a point to keep “How to Lie with Statistics” somewhere visible on her desk in the office.
Ha, I own that book, and proudly displayed it in my office (also in GIS, oil and gas industry).
The chef and frying pan to find kentucky would be useful in school.
Give the kids a copy of the US map and crayons. Let them color in the hat,shirt,pants and boots. Then pan and chicken.
They’d remember the names of the six states for the rest of their lives.
Map’s old. I was just on Interstate 41 in Wisconsin - the map shows it as non-existant.
Map’s incorrect. In the key at the bottom, it shows I43 going from Green Bay to Beloit, IL. Beloit is in Wisconsin.
[hijack] Why does Wisconsin need TWO interstates between Milwaukee and Green Bay? And how does Wisconsin get TWO interstates (the same ones) that don’t leave the state? Shouldn’t those be INTRAstates? I understand Alaska and Hawaii - ain’t no states with a land connection to either, but Wisconsin is in the middle of the country.[/hijack]
Guess that’s why this is a “terrible map”. I kinda like the subway map concept.
One serves the Fox Valley communities, from Fond du Lac to Oshkosh to Neenah/Menasha/Appleton/Little Chute. The expressway was pretty much there to begin with, having it designated an interstate got more federal funds to maintain it.
LOTS of states have such “intrastate” interstates. It’s not at all uncommon.
I suspect a map overlaying the interstates with militarily strategic locales from the 1950s would answer most of those questions.
Yeah, that’s the point. Porkbarrel politics at its finest. They didn’t even need to change the number - they just took US41 and gave it the designation I41. Hey! Republicans! Why aren’t you yelling and screaming about this sucking off of the Federal teat? Oh, wait, it was probably promoted by Ron Johnson ( R ), so then it must be fiscally responsible and OK.
Actually, I’m a little surprised they didn’t just call them “I43E” and “I43W” - similar to I35E and I35W around Minneapolis.
[hijack] And, for those who love absurdity, at one point we were driving “North” on I41 and “South” on I43 on the SW side of Milwaukee. Of course for that stretch, we were actually driving west.[/hijack]
Some time back, they tried to get rid of the direction suffixes to Interstate highways. They did manage to get rid of I-80N/S by renumbering I-80N to I-84, but for some reason couldn’t do the same with I-35E/W. Which is also in the DFW area, BTW. Anyway, with that policy in place, they weren’t going to be adding any more such suffixes.
Except when Congress made them, as with the new I-69W, I-69C, and I-69E in Texas.
Was unaware of those. Looks like it’s time to buy a new road atlas.
Back when I worked in market research, I had a button that read, “When all else fails, manipulate the data” on the bulletin board in my office. 