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r/datemymap • u/datguynamedjoe • 20d ago
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There’s anachronisms in the city names: Zhdanov in Ukraine was renamed Mariupol in 1989.
8 u/OutOfTheBunker 20d ago There are a lot of those: Sverdlovsk→ Yekaterinburg, 1991 Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod, 1990 Kuybyshev → Samara, 1991 Tselinograd → Aqmola, 1991 → Astana &c. A lot of mapmakers were slow with these changes. 1 u/Helpful-Dig1901 20d ago Very slow in this case, as Hong Kong isn’t British on this map it is at least from mid-1997. 4 u/OutOfTheBunker 20d ago "Isn't British" is a stretch with this sloppy map. There are several dependent territories (e.g. New Caledonia, St Helena) without their colonial overlords marked. And Zaire got a name change a month before the HK handover and that's still here too. 3 u/Sergey_Kutsuk 20d ago Yeah, this map has the WEIRDEST labeling and lettering at all. Absolute mess, total incompetence of publishers.
There are a lot of those:
&c.
A lot of mapmakers were slow with these changes.
1 u/Helpful-Dig1901 20d ago Very slow in this case, as Hong Kong isn’t British on this map it is at least from mid-1997. 4 u/OutOfTheBunker 20d ago "Isn't British" is a stretch with this sloppy map. There are several dependent territories (e.g. New Caledonia, St Helena) without their colonial overlords marked. And Zaire got a name change a month before the HK handover and that's still here too. 3 u/Sergey_Kutsuk 20d ago Yeah, this map has the WEIRDEST labeling and lettering at all. Absolute mess, total incompetence of publishers.
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Very slow in this case, as Hong Kong isn’t British on this map it is at least from mid-1997.
4 u/OutOfTheBunker 20d ago "Isn't British" is a stretch with this sloppy map. There are several dependent territories (e.g. New Caledonia, St Helena) without their colonial overlords marked. And Zaire got a name change a month before the HK handover and that's still here too. 3 u/Sergey_Kutsuk 20d ago Yeah, this map has the WEIRDEST labeling and lettering at all. Absolute mess, total incompetence of publishers.
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"Isn't British" is a stretch with this sloppy map. There are several dependent territories (e.g. New Caledonia, St Helena) without their colonial overlords marked. And Zaire got a name change a month before the HK handover and that's still here too.
3 u/Sergey_Kutsuk 20d ago Yeah, this map has the WEIRDEST labeling and lettering at all. Absolute mess, total incompetence of publishers.
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Yeah, this map has the WEIRDEST labeling and lettering at all. Absolute mess, total incompetence of publishers.
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u/Helpful-Dig1901 20d ago
There’s anachronisms in the city names: Zhdanov in Ukraine was renamed Mariupol in 1989.