The necessity of these kinds of guides makes me wonder: why have map and globemakers so broadly failed to adopt a standard practice of putting a date on world maps?
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#33The necessity of these kinds of guides makes me wonder: why have map and globemakers so broadly failed to adopt a standard practice of putting a date on world maps ?
That's a good question. I've thought about this for titles of guide books, eg "Best Europe Destinations 2024". It seems there's competing interests for making sales: A bookstore might want to buy the new versions every year (more sales), but when there are only old versions on the shelves, people don't want to buy something that looks out of date (less sales). Maybe for globes, they aren't selling many every year, so don't want to create them with dates that will look several years old.
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#34I used to have a map showing Sikkim, given to me by my grandpa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sikkim
That's an interesting name, from a turkish perspective...
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#35The necessity of these kinds of guides makes me wonder: why have map and globemakers so broadly failed to adopt a standard practice of putting a date on world maps ?
That's a good question. I've thought about this for titles of guide books, eg "Best Europe Destinations 2024". It seems there's competing interests for making sales: A bookstore might want to buy the new versions every year (more sales), but when there are only old versions on the shelves, people don't want to buy something that looks out of date (less sales). Maybe for globes, they aren't selling many every year, so…
Well it doesn’t have to be in bold title case next to ‘MAP OF THE WORLD’ - just a small print copyright notice with a year on it would do for someone curious about how old the map is.
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#36I had a roommate with a Rand-McNally 1942 globe. Really interesting to see the state of the world in the middle of World War II. A few American states as territories, Yugoslavia, the British Empire, Africa practically unrecognizable all carved up and of course, Nazi Germany and Europe in the middle of war.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
There should also be an option for 'too many' Germanies.
There's a branch for "Does the HRE exist" (in the top left corner), which basically says that "territorial maps" aren't well defined before the mid-modern period.
OK! Though we also had lots of Germanies in the 19th century between dissolution of HRE and before Bismarck forced the partition into (more or less) two Germanies (Kleindeutschland in the north and Austria-Hungary in the south).