{"id":1787082,"date":"2019-02-06T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T01:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787082"},"modified":"2019-02-06T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T01:39:54","slug":"pop-vs-soda-maps-spoofed-by-xkcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/02\/pop-vs-soda-maps-spoofed-by-xkcd\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop vs. Soda Maps Spoofed by xkcd"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"xkcd<\/a><\/p>\n

By law, I am required to share every xkcd comic about maps. Today’s<\/a> makes great fun of pop versus soda maps<\/a>\u2014the maps showing where in the U.S. carbonated beverages are referred to as pop<\/em> versus where they’re referred to as soda<\/em>. Randall takes things to their ludicrous extremes, as he is, by law, required to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By law, I am required to share every xkcd comic about maps. Today’s makes great fun of pop versus soda maps\u2014the maps showing where in the U.S. carbonated beverages are referred to as pop versus… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[274,936,192,273],"class_list":["post-1787082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-linguistics","tag-comics","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-xkcd","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788273,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/xkcd-reaction-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787082,"position":0},"title":"xkcd: Reaction Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 January 2020","format":"image","excerpt":"The latest xkcd comic suggests a fiendish way to express yourself: by creating phrases from driving direction waypoints. An obvious upgrade would be to use one or more of the places from the Magnificently Rude Map of World Place Names (previously).","rel":"","context":"In "Mobile"","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"xkcd: Reaction Maps","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/reaction_maps.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/reaction_maps.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/reaction_maps.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/reaction_maps.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1791918,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/10\/xkcd-sabotages-those-flag-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787082,"position":1},"title":"xkcd Sabotages Those Flag Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 October 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Maps where countries are coloured in with flag patterns: I\u2019ve seen a lot of them around, especially on Reddit, but I haven\u2019t necessarily liked them; xkcd\u2019s comic from last Wednesday goes one step further in that it offers a way to hack them.","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/flag_map_sabotage.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/flag_map_sabotage.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/flag_map_sabotage.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1787207,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/03\/xckds-least-informative-google-trends-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787082,"position":2},"title":"xckd’s ‘Least Informative’ Google Trends Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 March 2019","format":"image","excerpt":"Oh look, another map-themed comic\/infographic thingy from xkcd: the March 20 edition is having some fun with the maps generated by Google Trends data. 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The latest in his \u201cBad Map Projection\u201d series (previously: All South Americas, Time Zones, Liquid Resize) is The Greenland Special, an equal-area projection except for Greenland, which uses Mercator.\u00a0And\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Unusual Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Unusual Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/unusual-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"xkcd: Bad Map Projections: The Greenland Special","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/xkcd-greenland-special-1024x895.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/xkcd-greenland-special-1024x895.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/xkcd-greenland-special-1024x895.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/xkcd-greenland-special-1024x895.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1788218,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/xkcd-all-south-americas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787082,"position":4},"title":"xkcd: All South Americas","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 January 2020","format":"image","excerpt":"xkcd is back with another bad map projection: in this one, it\u2019s all South Americas. 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