I am an avid user of Google Maps. Not just for navigation, I find simply browsing Google Maps an inherently enjoyable activity. In an increasingly digitized world, somehow I think I can understand a place simply by looking closely enough at it on Google Maps. I’m fascinated by label placements. I see them as almost implicit markers of a place’s definitive location; the one spot you absolutely must visit to understand the essence of a place. City labels especially are fascinating on Google Maps. From far away, cities are rendered simply as a dot with some text next to it, but if you zoom in to a precise level, you’ll see the label is actually affixed to a very specific spot:
harrd post omg :0 the scale of maps thing will mess u up i remember travelling without my phone once and i looked at google maps before i left to get an idea of where to go and i was like "sick this town only has two roads i just have to turn left at the second one to get to where im staying" but as soon as i got off my bus i realized the town was 50x bigger than i thought it was and i just hadnt zoomed in on google maps to see all the roads and i was suddenly hopelessly lost
harrd post omg :0 the scale of maps thing will mess u up i remember travelling without my phone once and i looked at google maps before i left to get an idea of where to go and i was like "sick this town only has two roads i just have to turn left at the second one to get to where im staying" but as soon as i got off my bus i realized the town was 50x bigger than i thought it was and i just hadnt zoomed in on google maps to see all the roads and i was suddenly hopelessly lost
LMAO that's so real