Alert: The Maps Thread

Before COVID, I commuted from Burke to Silver Spring (22 miles) for work. 90 minutes was pretty average, and approximately 2 hours if there was an accident or construction (and there usually was). The only time it was under an hour were the Mondays or Fridays before a long weekend and people were extending the weekend.

 

That's a cool image. I thought I understood that the southern hemisphere was bigly distorted on maps; maybe that was not about Mercator or maybe I had a brain-fart.

 

Man, I'm grateful that my commute is 20 minutes and I go opposite traffic.

 

Unemployment means never having to say "this traffic sucks."

 

PREACH!!!

 

Burke is a exurb that is neighborhood, school, park, strip mall/shopping area, wooded area...repeat. There is really no landmark to define the area. But trails are great for running. You can spend minimal time on/near the roads if you choose to do so.

 

Burke is no standout either way in the Washington area. Little known is that Burke was supposed to be the location of Washington's 2nd airport instead of the Dulles location. There is a planned community there on land that the feds had condemned.

https://ggwash.org/view/64277/how-b...and-the-president-to-turn-away-dulles-airport

 

That's my commute. About a mile and a quarter.

Which I do on foot.

 

Mercator equally distorts the south, but because there's not a lot of land there it's just distorting sea and you can't really tell.

 

Most maps we see take the Mercator and squash or crop the Antarctica portion, and show the equator to be lower than the middle of the map. They crop/squash a bit off the arctic too.

 

Every day.

No such thing as bad weather. Only bad clothing choices.

 

I bet none of y'all takes a tuktuk to work. Just sayin'.

 

No but I used to ride a cable car!

 

The Hawaii jet ski commute is my favorite so far.

 

I once commuted to crash a sandbar party a few miles of the shore of somewhere in the Florida Keys by swimming. That would've been summer of '97. I was a 19 year old life guard at the time. My buddy and I knew nobody, but they were sufficiently impressed by the feat to get us hammered. The swim back was so much worse and likely would've been impossible had we not a compass and fins.

 

My current commute in Lubbock is so easy that I've made it door to door, even with parking in the farthest part of the farthest away parking lot, in 8 minutes (3.1 miles). I would do it by foot or bike but the combination of weather and horrible city design makes both nearly impossible.

Rush "hour" here lasts 15-20 minutes and they're already building a second loop/beltway around the city to handle the population growth.

 

My dad had like a 15 minute commute and on days we could catch a ride (we mostly walked) it meant him making a left turn at a light about a quarter mile before the middle & high schools, pulling over on a busy street and screaming at us to get out so he wouldn't be late.

 

I didn't know that spejic ran Safeway!

 

No way Sprouts is the most popular grocery store in Nevada. Not sure how they're measuring here.

And there are no Safeway stores in Utah: https://local.safeway.com/safeway.html

 

Also, in California it's not Safeway everywhere. If instead of Safeway, you have Vons and Pavillions, then you're in Southern California. Same parent company. But the stores have different names.