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This is also true of cartography in my experience. Presenting someone with the familiar is good for reaffirming your priors but for true lovers of maps, they're not just information but the pleasure of surprise, realization, connection and discovery. There's not much to discover in the familiar.

Bugs 🔜 MC Atlanta@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD

@greenleejw.bsky.social

As a kid, I would spend hours poring over maps of distant places, letting the map feed my imagination. As a nominal adult who draws maps for a living, I’d add that one of my favorite parts of my work is getting to map someplace (or some time) that’s wholly new to me.

The Map Center

@mapcenter.com

YES! I think most GIS people have had the experience of becoming intimately familiar with a specific place from maps and satellite images and data. And then. Going there. For the first time. And seeing how it is still both recognizable and strange.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD

@greenleejw.bsky.social

Most of the maps I draw are for historical monographs, which means that often I am mapping a (roughly) familiar physical geography with an unknown and shifting human geography. I really like that.

Brad Neuhauser

@burakkorii.bsky.social

I often edit municipal boundaries after annexations, and have had this experience many times! Reminds me that the overhead view and the view from the ground are often very different perspectives, but both have a lot of value.