{"id":1813415,"date":"2023-03-24T12:17:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1813415"},"modified":"2023-03-24T12:17:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T16:17:30","slug":"the-michigan-mitten-orthorectified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/03\/the-michigan-mitten-orthorectified\/","title":{"rendered":"The Michigan Mitten, Orthorectified"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Geographically Accurate Michigan Hand Map\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rS1KEwULYLs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The lower peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan is often called the mitten, for its resemblance to a human hand, and apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3X_nggm7kvU\">Michiganders indicate where they&rsquo;re from<\/a> by using their hands as a rudimentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Michigan\/comments\/5pj7t8\/michigan_hand_map\/\">map of the state<\/a>. The upper peninsula too. See <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/strange-maps\/454-michigan-the-hands-on-state\/\"><em>Strange Maps<\/em><\/a>. Now John Nelson has taken this entirely too far: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rS1KEwULYLs\">he&rsquo;s made the Michigan hand map geographically accurate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lower peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan is often called the mitten, for its resemblance to a human hand, and apparently Michiganders indicate where they&rsquo;re from by using their hands as a rudimentary&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/03\/the-michigan-mitten-orthorectified\/\">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":[355],"class_list":["post-1813415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-unusual-maps","tag-michigan","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1207,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/cartastrophe-on-decision-desk-hqs-election-cartograms\/","url_meta":{"origin":1813415,"position":0},"title":"Cartastrophe on Decision Desk HQ&#8217;s Election Cartograms","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"On Cartastrophe,\u00a0Daniel Huffman points out the problems in Decision Desk HQ\u2019s interactive cartograms for the U.S. presidential primaries, which maintain a state's shape but resize the counties as the results come in. \"Unfortunately, in so doing, they shuffle the counties around any old which way. The Lower Peninsula of Michigan\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Map Errors&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Map Errors","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/map-errors\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"michigan-primary-cartogram","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/michigan-primary-cartogram-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":844,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/copper-plates-used-to-make-topo-maps-on-display\/","url_meta":{"origin":1813415,"position":1},"title":"Copper Plates Used to Make Topo Maps on Display","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"13 February 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The Michigan State University Map Library now\u00a0has on display three\u00a0copper plates used to make the 1912\u00a0USGS topographic map of the Lansing, Michigan area. \"From the 1880s to the 1950s, the U.S. Geological Survey used engraved copper plates in the process of printing topographic and geographic quadrangle maps. Copper alloy engraving\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"msu-copper-plate","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/msu-copper-plate-1024x276.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/msu-copper-plate-1024x276.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/msu-copper-plate-1024x276.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/msu-copper-plate-1024x276.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1350,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/apologetic-thief-returns-maps-to-msu\/","url_meta":{"origin":1813415,"position":2},"title":"Apologetic Thief Returns Maps to MSU","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Michigan State University's Map Library received an anonymous package in the mail yesterday .\u00a0.\u00a0. https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSUMapLib\/status\/714522099277303810 There's a story here, and it'll almost certainly never be told.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1805549,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/12\/1761-map-of-fort-detroit-acquired-crowdfunding-campaign-launched\/","url_meta":{"origin":1813415,"position":3},"title":"1761 Map of Fort Detroit Acquired, Crowdfunding Campaign Launched","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 December 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"A 1761 map of Fort Detroit that depicts the fort just after it was ceded by the French to British forces, commissioned by Gen. Amherst and hand-drawn by William Brasier, has been acquired by the University of Michigan\u2019s William L. Clements Library. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fQFQjrRhTHo The map had been in private hands\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"William Brasier\u2019s \u201cPlan of the Fort at De Troit,\u201d (1761)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1761-fort-detroit-clements-acquisition-1024x767.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1761-fort-detroit-clements-acquisition-1024x767.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1761-fort-detroit-clements-acquisition-1024x767.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1761-fort-detroit-clements-acquisition-1024x767.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2955,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/09\/early-map-of-detroit-acquired\/","url_meta":{"origin":1813415,"position":4},"title":"Early Map of Detroit Acquired","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 September 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library has acquired an early hand-drawn map of Detroit\u2014from the period it was a British outpost\u2014that sheds new light\u00a0on the city's early history. A framed 21-by-40-inch map that reveals a plan of the city in 1790 was discovered in a family home in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"William L. 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