Just think if the Diomede islands were uplifted somehow, poof Russia and the USA have a border.
In winter there kind of is - I think you can walk by ice sometimes.
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#22Fascinating how protected by their geography are USA, Canada, Ireland and maybe UK.
The remaining countries have too many neighbors and, accordingly, potential opponents. Look at the Balkans or part of Africa.
I live in Sofia, Bulgaria and it has always seemed silly to me that the reason our city was chosen as the capital was the fact that it is surrounded by mountains on all sides. Now with this war in Ukraine, this idea seems genius to me.
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#23Places Iceland in America, but other than that really nice.
That's not wrong geologically: https://www.icelandtravel.is/attractions/bridge-between-cont...
Obviously not the cultural convention though.
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#24Just think if the Diomede islands were uplifted somehow, poof Russia and the USA have a border.
In winter there kind of is - I think you can walk by ice sometimes.
But don't expect a warm welcome if you make the trip: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12152629
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#25This gets Ireland so wrong it is unbelievable. Firstly the British isles are treated differently from all the other islands on the map, and it's hard to tell that there's even a blue line separating it from the rest of Europe. Secondly, Ireland doesn't even have a blue line, which implies it is connected by land to Britain And thirdly, Wales and Scotland should really be acknowledged, and at the same time you might s…
It seems correct to me. The map shows the country "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (UK) without separating its constituent countries. This is what most political world maps do. Ireland does border by land to the UK, at the border of Northern Ireland. This is shown with the black line. Also it borders to the UK and all of the world's ocean bordering countries which is shown through the surroundin…
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#26Could be a nice basis for a board game.
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#27This gets Ireland so wrong it is unbelievable. Firstly the British isles are treated differently from all the other islands on the map, and it's hard to tell that there's even a blue line separating it from the rest of Europe. Secondly, Ireland doesn't even have a blue line, which implies it is connected by land to Britain And thirdly, Wales and Scotland should really be acknowledged, and at the same time you might s…
Also it does not seem to account for overseas territories/d'outre-mer, but that's understandable.
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#28I like how the Panama Canal is represented by the gap in the name Pan|ama. Nice work overall!
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#29Is there a mathematical reason why, on the US map, only three types of lines are needed to generate this map- vertical, horizontal and one diagonal?
Does that notion generalize to all border maps and if so why?
Is it related how border maps can all be colored with only four colors?
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#30> It was at some point while I was thinking about adding extra countries to represent seas that it was time to call the automation quits, and just make the map manually. This has some advantages – I get to choose the overall layout, it’s much easier to include stylistic elements, and I don’t have to spend ages describing to a computer what common sense is.
An all too familiar situation.