{"id":198,"date":"2009-08-25T03:16:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T01:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2009-08-25T03:16:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T01:16:43","slug":"who-needs-google-earth-if-you-have-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/archives\/198","title":{"rendered":"Who needs Google Earth if you have THIS!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After browsing <a title=\"The Mysteries of the Piri Reis Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diegocuoghi.it\/Piri_Reis\/PiriReis_eng.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a website<\/a> on the supposed early maps of Antartica, I thought the idea of mapping out the world without any of the high-tech equipment we have today to be pretty fascinating. Most of the maps look ridiculous from our point of view now, but I remembered an article in <em>Zeit Magazin<\/em> from a long time ago which had German politicians draw up maps of their country. The results were pretty funny. Now I tried to do the same, but up the ante a little bit &#8211; draw a world map from memory. I have to say, I used to be good in geography in school, but my memory for where countries are located is pretty spotty at best. There are a lot of embarassing blank spots in Africa, South America, Asia but also Eastern Europe. I don&#8217;t even know all the countries there. The result is a pretty Euro-centric map, as was to be expected \u2026 By the way, why not create a map yourself and post it in the comments section? You can add an extra challenge if you like and try to locate all the capitals. I decided not to do that because I couldn&#8217;t remember how to spell <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Reijkjavic<\/span> Reykjav\u00edk. Now without further ado, behold! I give you the world according to me:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/img\/myworldmap.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/img\/myworldmap_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Who needs Google Earth if you have THIS!?\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After browsing a website on the supposed early maps of Antartica, I thought the idea of mapping out the world without any of the high-tech equipment we have today to be pretty fascinating. Most of the maps look ridiculous from our point of view now, but I remembered an article in Zeit Magazin from a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/archives\/198\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who needs Google Earth if you have THIS!?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-random-thoughts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}