What's the craziest thing you've seen on a map?
What's the craziest thing you've seen on a map?
Like weird place names on Google Maps, as an example.
island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an etc.
Lake Superior?
Big Ass Lake
Those photos are crazy
Not a map, but things I've seen on the roads in Boston:
- Left turn only from left lane, straight or left from 2nd lane, straight or left from 3rd lane
- Green light and perpendicular traffic coming to me on the cross street, also going, because they also have a green light
- Two lanes, surprise! Lane markers go away it's one lane, not defined who yields, you guys can work it out
I'm from Boston and this is painfully accurate. Especially the last line. My last job was a delivery job and me and the other person were constantly questioning if it was one lane or two.
God I hate driving in Boston, it's goddam awful
I actually love it now that I'm used to it. It's just a totally different driving mentality from anywhere else in the country, that's all. Everyone pays attention, everyone's assertive about getting where they're going, everyone takes responsibility. If you want things to be friendly you will have a real bad time, but it's actually one of the safest driving cities in the country. It's just hard to get used to at first.
Related story, a friend of mine was turning onto a 4-lane undivided road in California, and he butted out into one lane of traffic and waited for the traffic in the other lane to clear so he could go. To him from Boston this was normal. Every single lane of traffic came to a complete stop because of this crazy guy sideways in the middle of the road. he thought it was pretty funny.
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I just like those moments on Google Street view when there are people looking right into the Google camera.
Oh, like me? When I saw it coming and threw my arms up and stared at it as it passed.
Oh that was you? I thought I recognized you on that corner of Figueroa and whatever
Florida
"This is Florida! The whole goddamn state is shaped like a gun! You can't walk to your mailbox without tripping over three of them. God forbid you sell one to a cop!"
There's a town near where I used to live called Garbutt, it has less than ten residents.
Not "crazy" per se, but west of the Mississippi, cities are set up on a grid, whereas eastern cities look like their planning was established by throwing a plate of spaghetti at a wall.
Finland has many, but the big penis-shaped river is pretty good.
Edit: only discussion that is in English is over at Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/10zg4rz/in_finland_we_have_a_river_shaped_like_an/
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I can’t remember where it was, but I used to work at a title company. We processed a refinance on “Whiskey Dick Ln”.
there's some towns in austrailia that are absolutely insane. not going to list them here they are actually that bad. also not sure if they are still named what they are