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Showing posts with label bad map information. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad map information. Show all posts
Friday, July 22, 2022

Latitude-Longitude Coordinates; the Dummy Explanation - The Freelance Files MMCCXXX

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Lat-long coordinates Many a self-appointed "professional writer" makes a grave error in venturing out of their natural comfort zon...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Mercator Maps for Dummies - The Freelance Files MMCCIX

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Not a Mercator Map The younger staffers here at the Antisocial Network tend to be more visual than their older coworkers, probably because t...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

The Equator for the Scientifically Dumb

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International Date Line  Ahh, yes, back in the friendly confines of the eHow.com canon (as imagined by Leaf Group's niche team). After a...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Addresses from Aerial Photos, the Dummies Version

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where's the " beginning "? People type some of the strangest questions into internet search bars. Sometimes it's becau...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Triangulation for the Dummy Hiker

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triangulation on a topo map One of our staffers thinks that the somewhat arbitrary structure forced on freelancers at the former eHow.co...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

Contour Intervals for Dummies, the Rewrite Redux

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Some symbols on USGS Topo Maps Today marks a "quantum leap" in our staff's wanderings through the content of the erstwhile...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Magnetic Compasses for the Dummy Outdoorsman

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Magnetic declination rosette After several years of correcting the utter bull published by ignorant but greedy freelancers, you might th...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Magnetic Declination Correction, the Dummy Version

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setting magnetic declination Over the years, we've noticed that more than a few freelancers are a little hazy on the basics of using...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

Topographic Maps, the Dummies Rationale

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Topographic map example Among its other weaknesses, primarily the use of ignorant freelancers to "answer" questions on-line, e...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Reading Topographic Maps for Dummies

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Topographic map example It's been a couple of weeks since we looked through our file of potential maps DotDs, which doesn't mean...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

The Compass, a Dummy Explains

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Basic compass The bios required of eHow contributors are often a source of amusement to our staffers, particularly when the content one ...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

Map Scales for Dummies

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Different ways to express the same map scale When it comes to geography, a lot of people seem to think they're experts because they ...
Sunday, June 9, 2019

Geographic Grids for Dummies

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Longitude lines We snicker a lot at the journalism and "communications" grads who believe that they are capable of writing abo...
Friday, May 10, 2019

Decimal Degrees for Dummies

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Latitude and longitude ranges Sometimes a research staffer will read most of the way through a potential DotD candidate and suddenly sno...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Map Coordinates for Dummies (Again)

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Longitude convergence If there's one thing our staff cartographer wishes freelancers had learned in elementary school, it's how ...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Antipodes for Dummies

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four quarters of the globe Although there's no geographer or cartographer on staff at the Antisocial Network, several of our science...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Map Coordinates for Dummies

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Common map projection types There's an ongoing debate among our staffers concerning what everyday concept is the blackest "blac...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Degrees to Meters for Dummies, the Rewrite

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Illustration of Great Circle Distances More and more these days, the intern assigned to look for dead links is finding that Leaf Group h...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Coordinate Conversions for Dummy Cartographers

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topographic map One of the staffers is a map collector. Whether it's AAA state maps, USGS topo maps, gas station city maps, or whole...
Saturday, January 5, 2019

About Topographic Maps for Dummies

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topographic map The people who populated the old eHow.com website (a form of it still exists, but most of its content has been dispersed...