ILoveBadMaps

Just a geographer throwing shade at some bad maps

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

It's been a while, but we're back baby! Send us all your bad maps

[BP the Gas Station @BPtheGasStation]

How to be crowned dumbest bitch of 2021:

1) Try to get a tattoo of the coordinates to a meaningful place in Sedona
2) Put the wrong latitude
3) End up with a random spot in the ocean memorialized on you forever

[eevee 💨 @eevee]

fascinating, but untrue. tokyo is in japan, not england

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

Guest map shaming!

[MichaelScott Ramming @msramming]

Unusual choice of color scheme. We see you, Phoenix! Don’t go thinking you’re better than San Diego or Denver just because you have a lighter shade! @bad_maps

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

-bad color scheme
-no legend
-inconsistent labeling
-water???

Points for a good projection though 5/10

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

What in the world

[Shit Maps 💞🌍🌎🌏💞 @MappyPoop]

@bad_maps Stereotypical American thought processes

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

Lollllll so bad guess people don't live in alaska or hawaii either

[Jason Dake (he/him) @DakeJason]

For everyone, unless you live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin. Tough cookies for you. @bad_maps @springsteen @Jeep #Wisconsin #Michigan #UpperPeninsula

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

Remember that correlation is not causation and there is always more nuance to regionalization than maps can offer!

[Cobie @cobie]

🧐

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

Yikes

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

2,066 Americans were asked to point out Ukraine on a map

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

We agree that this is a Bad Map! Mostly because it's a complete misrepresentation of actual history and insulting to Native individuals. 0/10 don't be racist and intellectually lazy

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

hmmmmmm

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

-grainy
-painfully bright colors
-projection?
2/10 ouch

[irv @irvb]

Just discovered this map. #westmidlands #wales #cartography

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

0/10 this is what we like to call "lying with maps"

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

See y'all - this is why understanding the basics of map science is important. So you don't look extra idiotic trying to make an idiotic point.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Map of mask-wearing in the US vs. map of total case count in US. See if you can spot the pattern.

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

You love to see it

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Google maps after protestors in Bristol tore down a statue of slave trade Edward Coulston and threw it in the river

#Maps #Map #Terriblemaps #TerribleMap #bristol

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

See, here's an example of a map with multiple racial aggressions contained in it. There's no data here. It serves no purpose. It's basically just hateful clip art. Don't make maps like this.

[Mapsome 🌎 @mapsome]

Italy according to northern italians

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

Yeah

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

Anybody who's worth their salt in the map world, whether a professional geographer or an armchair cartographer with an ArcGIS Online account has a responsibility to interrogate and deconstruct the biases seen in maps they take in as well as the maps they create.

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

Hello, this is a break from your regularly scheduled map shade to affirm that Black Lives Matter.

[ILoveBadMaps @bad_maps]

The entire point of this account is to discuss bad maps (sometimes with humor), and we believe that the worst type of maps are those that are intentionally manipulative and made for violent or hateful purposes.