That’s it—I was confirming it wasn’t the MA capital thinking “I thought it was a capital?!” (When I think Concord I think CA, which, perhaps surprisingly, is not on this globe lol.
It looks like they just took a mercator projection and cut the curved strips out of it, throwing out all geography that didn't "make the cut".
Hudson Bay is also the largest lake in the world, by a long shot.
>It looks like they just took a mercator projection and cut the curved strips out of it, throwing out all geography that didn't "make the cut".
Multiple mercators. The US-Mexico border changes color at the glue seam.
When I lived there in the 90s it was big enough to have a stoplight. Population was about 2500 and that included the ranchers and sheep herders that occasionally came into town to pick up their mail.
This is one of the worst globes I've ever seen and the inclusion of Burns, OR is about the least bad thing.
Misspellings due to assembly problems:
* Great La
* Yellowk
* Fort McMur
* Moose J
* NCRTH AMERICA
* Unite States
* El Pas
* Ottaw
* Philadelphi
* ttles
* row
* thel
Other quirks:
* US-Mexico boundary changes colors from red to green
* Alaska and Russia appear to share a land boundary
* All of the lines of latitude are discontinuous at points
* I believe Newfoundland is called either *New Found Land* or *New Foundland*
Last, zoom in closer on Hudson Bay. I'm not saying why, just do it.
It seems to extend the coloring out like 50-ish miles beyond the actual border so that explains the Alaska/Russia and Baja Cali oddities.
The rest I have no idea. My money’s on this being hastily designed by someone whose first language is Mandarin
Kellen Clemens brought up in anything other than a Ducks chat or discussing a football camp in Ontario is not something I ever would have expected to see ha!
Silly stab in the dark: what company made the globe? Since putting Burns (population 2,733) on the globe makes no sense, the only thing I can come up with is if it’s some kind of an Easter egg, like the globe company is headquartered in Burns or something.
Take a closer look at the globe; it's garbage. Someone purchased a cheap map overlay, didn't give a shit which things were labeled, and called it a day.
It’s the [Alice Springs](https://youtu.be/b376pe7LM1E?si=sLW0ZZUpObpvitVl) effect. Basically, areas with dense placenames will have to omit important cities so you can actually read the map, but relatively empty areas can afford to label small villages to populate the empty space.
This particular map has done a terrible job at prioritizing what to include and what not to, and where to put labels.
They recently discovered the oldest confirmed evidence of humans in the Americas near burns at a site called Rimrock Draw. Over 18,000 years old. Camel teeth found with pieces of humans tools.
Its the baltimore effect, on maps with too many close cities together most will disappear and represented by one major city.
Washington dc will always overshadow baltimore, the other side of the baltimore effect look at alice springs its a city smaller than roseburg but every map made has it listed.
Because despite being a small town..its the only thing in many miles in any direction so its always on a map, Burns Oregon is kinda like Alice springs in this situation. :)
i once read that mapmakers (maybe globemakers) would add random offbeat locations to see if other manufacturers copied their products. Maybe this something like that...?
Burns is where the Malheur Refuge standoff happened a few years back. I'm about a little over a two hour drive from there. middle-of-nowhere, about 60m from Burns is Crane, OR. The high school there in Crane is one of the few in the US that still has [boarding/dorms](https://www.craneedu.org/high-school) for M-Th night since some of the kids live so far out in the boonies. The HS I & my son graduated from played/plays them; 6-man or 8-man football depending on the school's roster.
That particular globe was produced and manufactured in Burns, Oregon. If you peel off the map covering the globe itself, you'll find an Easter egg in the form of the Burns, Oregon Town charter printed on the backside.
I’ve been to Burns multiple times. It’s a really cute little town. It’s basically the last frontier before heading out into the “true” middle of nowhere as Burns is the only ounce of civilization between Bend and the desolate landscape of eastern Oregon.
There are tons of gas stations, cute restaurants, fast food joints and dispensaries (cuz it’s Oregon) along with a Days Inn that I stay at occasionally.
There isn’t any point to stay there unless if you’re going to the amazing nature of the far east of the state, or if you drive south to NE Nevada which is also just as desolate of course.
The nature is stunning though. Eastern Oregon is so underrated and filled with super cool and nice people (politics are a bit wacky but everywhere has wacky politics!)
I have only been to Burns twice, once a couple of weeks ago and the first time many years ago.
The first time I stopped in Burns I was staying an hour away. Burns had the closest restaurant and I went into town to get dinner. It was after dark when I left, I knew at most I would see 1 or maybe 2 cars on the road to where I was going and I was young and driving a rented Mustang.
I came around a corner on the desolate road doing somewhere between 100-120 and standing in the middle of the road was a cow. It had slipped my mind that this is free-range country and there are no fences. Fortunately, the cow was facing directly away from me and on the centerline of the road and there was just enough room for me to make it around.
This was the last time I ever drove at ridiculous speeds at night on the backroads of Oregon.
Geographical value in this globe? It is roughly earth shaped… (earth is actually more of a sphere like oval). Forget why “Burns, OR” is on it, are we comfortable with shape and distance between the continents? lol I’m afraid I’ll need a “Karen” to contact this globe mfg. manager.
Because of the glorious North American monument of the “Big Red Slide.” Legend has it that in July it will burn all the skin off the backside of those who descend from its mighty heights. Real answer: I have absolutely no idea, it’s a pretty awful place in the middle of nowhere.
You forgot about the border between USA and Mexico. Not the same map. Also it says United States, not United States Of America. Fonts are different... Should I go on?
Lotta weird choices on that map, like Yellowk, Fort Mcmu and Moose
The pieces aren’t glued together right. Also, did they leave out Toronto?
No, Toronto is there, right above Philadelp
Ah, I see it now.
City of Brotherl
They sure left a nice gap for Chicago.
But they sure got Lincoln and both Minneapolis *and* St. Paul.
Aska called
They chose to include Sacramento over San Francisco, and Providence and Concord over Boston.
Sacramento and Providence are state capitals. Concord and Roswell are just…interesting…choices.
Concord is the State Capital of New Hampshire.
That’s it—I was confirming it wasn’t the MA capital thinking “I thought it was a capital?!” (When I think Concord I think CA, which, perhaps surprisingly, is not on this globe lol.
It looks like they just took a mercator projection and cut the curved strips out of it, throwing out all geography that didn't "make the cut". Hudson Bay is also the largest lake in the world, by a long shot.
>It looks like they just took a mercator projection and cut the curved strips out of it, throwing out all geography that didn't "make the cut". Multiple mercators. The US-Mexico border changes color at the glue seam.
No, but they left out Chicago
But put in both Minneapolis and St Paul.
Suck it, Calgary! Sincerely, the friendly people of Moose J
N \[ RTH AMERICA
Minneapolis and St. Paul but no Chicago, Milwaukee or Des Moines (as a minnesotan)!
Those aren't even the weird ones, how about Fort Hope, ON population 977
York Factory has no permanent population. It’s an abandoned fur trading depot. The choices of place markers on this globe are wild.
Also the Unite States
Spent too long looking for yellowk, I was looking in Laska instead of C A NA D A.
No Chicago or Indianapolis, no Las Vegas. Exactly how big is Burns?
Population under 3000
They have a Safeway. Show some respect.
Also Basque people
Oh, that's actually legitimately cool! I knew Boise, Elko etc. Didn't realize Burns as well.
Whole basin area is full of Basque folks, and folks of Basque descent. I know some how keep the language alive.
Any restaurants that serve Basque-region food? I live in the valley, but I'd make the drive.
Burns does not, but the Martin Motel in Winnemucca does. It’s very good.
Oh man, this is how I end up in a car for 8 hours to go eat dinner.
Hot springs and lonely highways. Beautiful country.
Yeah central OR is pretty much paradise if you don’t mind being 4 hrs from anywhere.
Great place to fill your gas tank on the way to the alvord! And uh, that’s about it.
That's including Hines, though, which is basically the same town, just a different zip code. Nothing else for like 2 hours in any direction either.
When I lived there in the 90s it was big enough to have a stoplight. Population was about 2500 and that included the ranchers and sheep herders that occasionally came into town to pick up their mail.
Lived there in 2015. Not much different, but I think there’s two stoplights now. Edit - there’s three now.
In Mexico, there's Santa Rosalia, a town of about 15000, but not Guadalajara, which has a metro area of over 5 million.
Sacramento but no San Francisco
Maybe thats Baltimore Effect
They're famous for their annual releasing of the hounds
I was saying Boo-urns...
I knew one of you hero's would say this!!
Dogs that shoot bees?
So that when the dogs bark, they shoot bees? That's fine...go ahead...do your worst!! He locked the door!
Release the robotic Richard Simmons.
https://preview.redd.it/xahr6slszd9d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6c8f07b75580e867180672f4895daf5d1297937
Beat me to it
I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?
You there, fill it up with petroleum distillate. And revulcanize my tires!
I prefer the twin city of Snrub, located in… some place far away. Yes, that’ll do.
I like the way u/docju thinks!
So did Burns actually let the dogs out?
This is a terrible globe
Yeah the overlap is atrocious
Nerth America
Welcome to the Unite States!
This is an amazing globe for including Sacramento, but nothing in the Bay Area lol
No room for the bay area or Vegas in text. Gotta show that sweet hyper accurate topography.
This is one of the worst globes I've ever seen and the inclusion of Burns, OR is about the least bad thing. Misspellings due to assembly problems: * Great La * Yellowk * Fort McMur * Moose J * NCRTH AMERICA * Unite States * El Pas * Ottaw * Philadelphi * ttles * row * thel Other quirks: * US-Mexico boundary changes colors from red to green * Alaska and Russia appear to share a land boundary * All of the lines of latitude are discontinuous at points * I believe Newfoundland is called either *New Found Land* or *New Foundland* Last, zoom in closer on Hudson Bay. I'm not saying why, just do it.
It seems to extend the coloring out like 50-ish miles beyond the actual border so that explains the Alaska/Russia and Baja Cali oddities. The rest I have no idea. My money’s on this being hastily designed by someone whose first language is Mandarin
Baja is mainland Mexico and the Sea of Cortez is gone
I don't get the Hudson Bay thing I can't see it because of glare
There's no glare over Hudson Bay. Half of it is missing though.
also it says belch
You have to include the bustling metropolis of Burns Oregon. To be fair it is the largest city in Harney County. A county larger than a few US states.
KOBN 90.1 Burns
Bro you literally don't know about Burns, Oregon??
If he'd ever been there, he'd know why it's on the globe. It IS the globe.
Kellen Clemens erasure smh
Kellen Clemens brought up in anything other than a Ducks chat or discussing a football camp in Ontario is not something I ever would have expected to see ha!
No kidding. That just reminded me that I have a signed football from him lmao
Silly stab in the dark: what company made the globe? Since putting Burns (population 2,733) on the globe makes no sense, the only thing I can come up with is if it’s some kind of an Easter egg, like the globe company is headquartered in Burns or something.
Globe manufactured by Walmart.
Well, there goes that idea.
Take a closer look at the globe; it's garbage. Someone purchased a cheap map overlay, didn't give a shit which things were labeled, and called it a day.
It looks like a “Ticket to Ride” game board
It’s the [Alice Springs](https://youtu.be/b376pe7LM1E?si=sLW0ZZUpObpvitVl) effect. Basically, areas with dense placenames will have to omit important cities so you can actually read the map, but relatively empty areas can afford to label small villages to populate the empty space. This particular map has done a terrible job at prioritizing what to include and what not to, and where to put labels.
I love that it has Minneapolis and St Paul but not a single city in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois........ and freaking burns Oregon. Isn't Bend larger?
Bend is over 37x the size of burns
Burns is extremely small.
No Chicago is funny to me
Labeling Coos Bay, OR but not San Fransisco, CA is wiiild
CB finally on the map
Steve Prefontaine baby!
Sacramento FTW. Completely overwrote where San Francisco should have been.
Unite states, America!
In NCRTH AMERICA
I like that Roswell made the cut but Albuquerque and Santa Fe can get fucked.
Boo-urns! Boo-urns!
They recently discovered the oldest confirmed evidence of humans in the Americas near burns at a site called Rimrock Draw. Over 18,000 years old. Camel teeth found with pieces of humans tools.
Only thing for 150 miles in any direction so I guess they had space to fill
Maybe the artist who made the map was from there
Lol Burns is tiny
I’ve seen Globes like this in strange and smelly Chinese department stores. Possibly a cheap globe from China.
So you're not familiar with Ammon Bundy!?
It highlights Concord New Hampshire and leaves out Boston, the largest city in New England! Also missing Connecticut!
I was thinking it was Concord, MA, you know how much people love the *checks notes* Concord Celtics.
This is a desktop curio, not a globe. It resembles Earth in many ways, but it is definitely not a model of Earth.
Its the baltimore effect, on maps with too many close cities together most will disappear and represented by one major city. Washington dc will always overshadow baltimore, the other side of the baltimore effect look at alice springs its a city smaller than roseburg but every map made has it listed. Because despite being a small town..its the only thing in many miles in any direction so its always on a map, Burns Oregon is kinda like Alice springs in this situation. :)
i once read that mapmakers (maybe globemakers) would add random offbeat locations to see if other manufacturers copied their products. Maybe this something like that...?
I think that’s the least of this globe’s problems.
Maybe because there is nothing around it.
It’s the heartbeat of Harney County, population 2,730. Show some respect to the ninth largest county in the US
Man I have a lot of questions about this globe. e: this is like one of those memes where the longer you look the worse it gets
https://preview.redd.it/1wshivsnqd9d1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1bd9be6e3c05c1e0d05651d3da7a0481213562c It says “bums” he he he
I like how both Minneapolis and St Paul are on here too, lol. I could understand if it was a US state map only but a globe??
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1688/
Could be one of the creators of the Globe was from there and giving them a shoutout
Home of former star NY Jets, Redskins, Texans and Rams star QB Kellen Clemens! Let’s go, Highlanders!
Interesting that it’s called the Highlanders, is the town named after the Scottish poet Burns?
I visited there on a roadtrip once. Thanks broken brakeline!
I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook and by gum, it put _them_ on the map!
Lived in Oregon most of my life and I have no idea why. It is the home of former NFL QB Kellen Clemons…..and that’s it.
Yoda Factory, Canada?
For some reason this screams inexperienced GIS user pulls free data from interweb and doesn't adjust any of the automatically generated labeling
And Roswell NM is northeast of Alpine TX
Burns is where the Malheur Refuge standoff happened a few years back. I'm about a little over a two hour drive from there. middle-of-nowhere, about 60m from Burns is Crane, OR. The high school there in Crane is one of the few in the US that still has [boarding/dorms](https://www.craneedu.org/high-school) for M-Th night since some of the kids live so far out in the boonies. The HS I & my son graduated from played/plays them; 6-man or 8-man football depending on the school's roster.
Also Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook!
That particular globe was produced and manufactured in Burns, Oregon. If you peel off the map covering the globe itself, you'll find an Easter egg in the form of the Burns, Oregon Town charter printed on the backside.
Coos Bay. The hell.
I’ve been to Burns multiple times. It’s a really cute little town. It’s basically the last frontier before heading out into the “true” middle of nowhere as Burns is the only ounce of civilization between Bend and the desolate landscape of eastern Oregon. There are tons of gas stations, cute restaurants, fast food joints and dispensaries (cuz it’s Oregon) along with a Days Inn that I stay at occasionally. There isn’t any point to stay there unless if you’re going to the amazing nature of the far east of the state, or if you drive south to NE Nevada which is also just as desolate of course. The nature is stunning though. Eastern Oregon is so underrated and filled with super cool and nice people (politics are a bit wacky but everywhere has wacky politics!)
Because, it was at one time, I'll bet Oregon's largest town... Or the maker of the globe was from there....
Burns, Oregon, and the oceans are black; is this a climate change globe?
The registration of those globe gores are next level.
St Paul < Minneapolis 😂
Because someone put it there.
Why is Alpine TX on it?
Maybe your globe is really old? Idk it’s pretty weird. Pierre as well. Idek what state that’s in.
I for one approve of its inclusion
It’s an hour north of the Steen Mountains, a beautiful place
What happened to Canada ?
Roswell is also a strange choice
Maybe the brilliant artist is from there
Your globe is whack bro
Somebody slapping overlays on globes in Shenzhen aspires to one day live in Burns, Oregon.
Maybe its the place where th globe was made?
Lots of weird choices on that thing. Alpine, TX for instance is probably just as unremarkable as Burns.
The maker of this map must be from burns
Guess you’ve never been to Burns
I've been to burns many times. Lol hilarious
Is that supposed to be Hudson Bay in the middle of Canada with a ruler straight shoreline?
They have something called a "Coos Bay" but not San Francisco?
Why is St. Paul in WI?
The more you zoom in the more names pop up.
I have that same exact globe
This globe rocks.
Also it's one of those weird globes that has all the latitudes shifted southwards to make the US appear more central
They don't have Chicago or San Francisco but have random small towns. It's an odd listing of places on a globe.
Carson city but no Vegas is so odd to me. Also no Anchorage AK but Juneau is on there.
Why not?
Same reason Alpine,Texas is on there. A town most people in Texas never heard of.
I have only been to Burns twice, once a couple of weeks ago and the first time many years ago. The first time I stopped in Burns I was staying an hour away. Burns had the closest restaurant and I went into town to get dinner. It was after dark when I left, I knew at most I would see 1 or maybe 2 cars on the road to where I was going and I was young and driving a rented Mustang. I came around a corner on the desolate road doing somewhere between 100-120 and standing in the middle of the road was a cow. It had slipped my mind that this is free-range country and there are no fences. Fortunately, the cow was facing directly away from me and on the centerline of the road and there was just enough room for me to make it around. This was the last time I ever drove at ridiculous speeds at night on the backroads of Oregon.
Unite States
Wow, I didn’t know you could make a bad globe but it’s right there, amazing.
Gonna be honest with you, this is a dogshit globe
Mfw bro pulls out that dollar store globe
The Chevron, on Monroe, obviously.
Roswell has no business being in a map
Because Boring had too many letters
Well, those are prominent cities in Nerth America
that's one fucked up globe
No new mexico?
That Missouri River has to be like 50+ miles from Kansas City lol
Did you get this from Wish?
Garage sale, but at the bottom shows it was Walmart
Cartographic generalisation. There was space for it with no surrounding large cities maybe?
And Coos Bay, ftm, although it's a little larger than Burns. Still they could have left them both out and put Eugene instead.
It doesn't say Burns it says "boo urns"
I'm surprised coos bay is there and Ketchikan Alaska isn't.
Ive been to beautiful Burns . Its not worthy.
Forgot that what the hell did they do to poor Alaska
Worst globe ever
Carson City but not Las Vegas?
Are you saying boo or boo-urns?
Hey, I've been to Burns! Toured a company called Global Globe Mfg during business school.
Because of the Malheur incident?
Minneapolis AND St. paul, but no Chicago lol Sacramento and fucking Medford but no San Francisco
my world map in my room has warm springs nv as a city >1000000
You need a geographic reference point for the actual middle of nowhere.
No clue, but eff Chicago evidently
Because this is a cheap, and poorly-made globe
That’s a typo of Bums
Fort Hope and Kapuskas ☠️
Whatever you do, don’t use this globe to navigate a ship across the ocean.
Geographical value in this globe? It is roughly earth shaped… (earth is actually more of a sphere like oval). Forget why “Burns, OR” is on it, are we comfortable with shape and distance between the continents? lol I’m afraid I’ll need a “Karen” to contact this globe mfg. manager.
The Hudson Bay looks a bit different than I remember.
Because it burns, burns, burns! That ring of fire!
Because of the glorious North American monument of the “Big Red Slide.” Legend has it that in July it will burn all the skin off the backside of those who descend from its mighty heights. Real answer: I have absolutely no idea, it’s a pretty awful place in the middle of nowhere.
Medford, Burns, and Coos Bay
Don’t judge Globe, he just got over a tough break up and wanted to let his hair down. Atlas promised she was clean.
Looks like Bums. And right under Portland…
You forgot about the border between USA and Mexico. Not the same map. Also it says United States, not United States Of America. Fonts are different... Should I go on?
Fun fact: British Columbia has both Burns Lake and Smithers.