Map Enthusiasts @sopuli.xyz Flying Squid @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Minimalist world map

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Maps without New Zealand
- Middle-Earth is fictional. Everyone knows that.
  
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- Honestly this one leaves out more than it leaves in.
- I was going to suggest Tassie is also classically missing but the entirety of SE Asia isn't on this one
- c/MapsWithMadagascar
Pattern recognition is so weird
Only 10 circles and it's already quite close
- And the big one that's dead center is mostly useless
  
  Yeah! It literally just adds a bit of Cape and Horn to Africa. Without it you'd have a nice circle for the 3 old world continents.
  
  And the left one may well be the physical circle from a moon impact.
- Africa needs to be enlarged quite a bit and there’s a whole continent missing. Not bad otherwise.
Another map without New Zealand
The entire southeast Asia, which makes up maybe half the majority of the world population disappeared.
- It was the first thing I noticed missing too, but it's "only" 0.7 billion people.
  
  It probably should be integrated into Australia somehow, to keep circle count low.
  
  I would say it's east Asia and South Asia that are missing, not "south east". It's like 3 billion isn't it?
- can you, as a perception exercise, try to see some of the other missing territories and list them in a reply?
  
  India isn't really missing so much as not distinguished, but also that.
  
  Every island is missing, starting by size with Greenland.
  
  Northern Canada is pointed instead of concave with Hudson's Bay. Antarctica is also missing but that counts more as a stylistic choice because it's so frequently done.
A more minimalist world map, to paraphrase a 1970s TV scientist, would be one blue pixel
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my own attempt at it

as can be seen with this diagram, i prefer straight lines over circles when it comes to geopolitics

also, i'm sorry if this offends somebody somehow
- Can't believe you forgot New Zealand smh
  
  Is New Zealand not part of Oceania?
Bro hated imperialists so much, they straight up deleted UK and Japan...
- When you have just enough resolution for Australia, you don’t really have the option to include smaller details.
- hello from ireland
  
  Whats is Iceland? Doesn't exist. Greenland also doesn't exist. Same for New Zealand.
  
  You must be at the wrong parallel universe.
- And their former colonies
New Zealand missing again!
Needs a couple of more circles in there to make India and Southeast Asia pop out.
- I would also add one more to NA to make it as wide as it should be. It's pretty skinny here.
I love this. I'm guessing there's a better way to choose circles, though.

Why have one for the Great Australian Bight? Just so it doesn't end up being an entire circle? That's kind of a missed opportunity to do a Philippine Sea circle and include SEA.

Edit: What about one for each continent, a couple for the Indian ocean, and then a big Pacific Ocean one that takes out of Australia, East Asia (forming SEA) and the two in America?
The circles ought to wrap around the edges.
Missing the 5th largest continent...
Weird how you can see it
In the end, we really are all just the Brady Bunch

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