{"id":1805868,"date":"2022-01-14T09:23:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T14:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1805868"},"modified":"2022-01-14T09:23:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T14:23:56","slug":"states-of-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/01\/states-of-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"States of Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Peter Johnson has been posting quizzes on Reddit where the shapes of countries<\/a> and U.S. states<\/a> are flipped, rotated and\/or inverted and you\u2019re challenged to identify them. It\u2019s actually harder than you might think\u2014especially when they\u2019re inverted or mirror-flipped\u2014and messes with your perception in the way that, say, upside-down world maps do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Peter Johnson has been posting quizzes on Reddit where the shapes of countries and U.S. states are flipped, rotated and\/or inverted and you\u2019re challenged to identify them. It\u2019s actually harder than you might think\u2014especially… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[936,58],"class_list":["post-1805868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-unusual-maps","tag-fun","tag-reddit","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785003,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/02\/the-united-states-of-canada\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805868,"position":0},"title":"The United States of Canada","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 February 2018","format":"image","excerpt":"We've seen maps reimagining the United States reorganized into a different number and configuration of states before, but this map by Reddit user Upvoteanthology_ looks north of the border for inspiration. It imagines what would happen if the U.S. were organized like Canada, with the same population imbalances: Ontario, for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Unusual Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Unusual Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/unusual-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/us-of-canada-reddit-1024x456.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/us-of-canada-reddit-1024x456.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/us-of-canada-reddit-1024x456.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/us-of-canada-reddit-1024x456.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1788566,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/03\/alternate-geographies-on-the-imaginary-maps-reddit-group\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805868,"position":1},"title":"Alternate Geographies on the Imaginary Maps Reddit Group","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 March 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Gizmodo takes a look at the Imaginary Maps group on Reddit, where members mostly post imagined maps from alternate timelines\u2014countries that never existed, the aftermath of wars that went the other way, that sort of thing. The bulk of the piece is an interview with frequent contributor xpNc, who talks\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Imaginary Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Imaginary Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/imaginary-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1103,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/super-tuesday-results-by-county\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805868,"position":2},"title":"Super Tuesday Results by County","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Of the maps of the Democratic and Republican U.S. presidential primary and caucus results I've seen so far, I rather like the county-by-county maps done by Reddit user Mainstay17. Here's one for the Democrats that includes the results from the\u00a0Super Tuesday states: And here's the equivalent map\u00a0for the Republicans: (Before\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"super-tuesday-d","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/super-tuesday-d-1024x655.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/super-tuesday-d-1024x655.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/super-tuesday-d-1024x655.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/super-tuesday-d-1024x655.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1785024,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/02\/some-gun-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805868,"position":3},"title":"Some Gun Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 February 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Reddit user academiaadvice maps the rate of gun homicides per 100,000 residents by state from 2007 to 2016 (above). From 2015: Business Insider\u2019s map showing, by state, the rate of gun ownership. Note that the two maps do not precisely correlate. [both via Boing Boing] The Washington Post has maps\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Crime"","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/crime\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gun-homicides-by-state-1024x663.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gun-homicides-by-state-1024x663.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gun-homicides-by-state-1024x663.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gun-homicides-by-state-1024x663.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1785041,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/02\/a-fantasy-ttc-subway-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805868,"position":4},"title":"A Fantasy TTC Subway Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 February 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"There have been plenty of fantasy transit network maps\u2014maps that imagine the subway, rail or bus system they think their city should have.\u00a0BlogTO points to a good one: a map that reimagines the Toronto Transit Commission's subway network posted to Reddit by architecture student Henry Lin. BlogTO calls it \"one\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Transit"","block_context":{"text":"Transit","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/transit\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fantasy-ttc-subway-lin-1024x290.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fantasy-ttc-subway-lin-1024x290.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fantasy-ttc-subway-lin-1024x290.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fantasy-ttc-subway-lin-1024x290.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2709,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/a-problem-with-population-density-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805868,"position":5},"title":"A Problem with Population Density Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 August 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Reddit user joostjakob posted the above map to MapPorn with the\u00a0following caption: \"Why population density maps are hard to read: exactly the same amount of people live in the black and in the blue areas.\" [Maps on the Web]","rel":"","context":"In "Cartography"","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"euro-pop-density","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/euro-pop-density.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/euro-pop-density.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/euro-pop-density.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805869,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805868\/revisions\/1805869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}