Strange Map

[Twig]

Hi there, Does anyone know where this map is from?

I was watching an old movie and what caught my eye was the map on the board. I tried to find it on google but don't seem to be able to find any info.

This link is so you know what movie im referring to:
https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=movie%20thats%20what%20i%20am

This link is to the picture/Map:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/04/29/arts/29THAT-span/SUB-THAT-articleLarge.jpg

Thanks...

[GK76]

That's the world map looking down at the north pole.

[shadowstalker]

That's the world map looking down at the north pole.

Looks like it to me but a bit distorted.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/04/29/arts/29THAT-span/SUB-THAT-articleLarge.jpg

[GK76]

That's the world map looking down at the north pole.

Looks like it to me but a bit distorted.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/04/29/arts/29THAT-span/SUB-THAT-articleLarge.jpg

It's folded out to encompass the full view, or you'd only see one hemisphere.

[Twig]

Thanks for the replies;

If you see it in the movie it is closer..You can see water ways/ rivers etc... that shouldn't be there, Separating countrys. I find it a tad odd that this map would be in a movie made 2011.

[Bill Ryan]

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You're right — it's a very strange map! :)

http://projectavalon.net/strange_map.gif

[regnak]

I think the map is of a new land above the north pole could there be land between America and Russia over the north pole there are 1500 miles between them over the north pole although looking at the map it could be anything from Europe to Africa not much help sorry

[Twig]

There's a globe on the desk in the pic..Can anyone get a clearer look at it. Curious to know if it's the same as the board map.

[Sierra]

Is it a map of Pangaea, before the continents moved into their current resting places?

[Twig]

Possibly, but then what's Aus doing way up the top.

[Sierra]

Possibly, but then what's Aus doing way up the top.

Stiff current?

[amor]

It is just viewed from a different perspective. The only large change I can see is the shape of Australia.

[Twig]

:bump2: <<< Country ping pong....

[Tangri]

West of the Anatolia is joined Australia eh?

Do not get too much enthusiastic on details to grasp conspiracy, it is not trying to give clue for future.:nono:

[Bill Ryan]

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Well, I found something like it, on this page:

http://kartoweb.itc.nl/geometrics/map%20projections/mappro.html

http://kartoweb.itc.nl/geometrics/Bitmaps/Azimuthal%20stereographic.gif

Just so we all know, this is called a polar azimuthal stereographic projection (which is a planar projection with a conformal property). :)

Here's a slightly different version...

http://kartoweb.itc.nl/geometrics/Bitmaps/Azimuthal%20equal-area.gif

... which is a polar azimuthal equal-area projection.

WHY anyone would want to produce maps like this may be a different question!

[bluestflame]

perhaps looking as though the globe were transparent , like of you really could see through the eartth to china , maybe useful for calculating ley lines and energy vortices

[Twig]

An da plot thickens....:unsure:

[Twig]

I wish i could just watch a movie for a movie....sigh

[Tangri]

Maybe , these are the originals.:croc:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map

[Tangri]

I wish i could just watch a movie for a movie....sigh

Be my guest
:pop2:

[Sierra]

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Here's a slightly different version...

http://kartoweb.itc.nl/geometrics/Bitmaps/Azimuthal%20equal-area.gif

... which is a polar azimuthal equal-area projection.

WHY anyone would want to produce maps like this may be a different question!

Aliens use it to land at the polar entrance to the underground world...

(What is wrong with me today?)

[Sierra]

I wish i could just watch a movie for a movie....sigh

I hear ya. Watching The Hunger Games, all I could think was, yeah, 12 (formerly 13) (how Illuminati is that) slave hives of 500,000 people, serving the Illuminati city ensconced in a wilderness paradise.

[Twig]

Thanks Tangri but once you wake up there's just no going back.
Nothing is looked upon the same anymore...

[noprophet]

Best shot I could get, turned the contrast up a little to try and make the words more legible / lines darker.

http://s2.postimg.org/4qbbjqy6x/moviemap.jpg

I'm with you guys, I can't really watch TV for entertainment anymore, I'm obsessed with stuff in the background. Too much Kubrick :P

[Bill Ryan]

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For everyone on this thread (Twig especially!): a hilarious clip from WEST WING, all about changing the standard map projection of the world to promote social equality for developing countries. :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA0BLrLW0PE

[Roisin]

Sorry, I'm not going to go along with that "social map" .... that is unless I'm pressured to turn over my first born... or else. lol:p

[Fellow Aspirant]

I spent many years teaching in high schools in Kingston, Ontario (Canada) starting about 1977, and because my subject was mostly English (as well as Geography, Art, Music and Theatre Arts), I got to see a lot of different classroom setups, owing to the fact that the powers that be considered English to be a highly "portable" subject. Geography classrooms were some of my favourites, owing to my lifelong fascination with maps, which were a consistently popular feature of said classrooms: they always festooned as much wallspace as possible. It was in these spaces that I first became acquainted with polar-centred world maps. The first time I encountered one and asked "What the hell?" it was, I was told by the amused resident teacher that 'polar maps' were a common feature of Geography classrooms, for some very good reasons: as Canadians, the students were taught that our country's place in the world actually put us into much closer proximity with Russia and Europe than to any other country besides the USA.

It was (and is) also easy to make the point that should Russia and the US ever go to war, WE would be smack dab in the middle of it. There's a reason that the Canadian arctic was, before the advent of spy satellites, the location of a string of Distant Early Warning stations, radar installations that were set to detect "incoming" Russian ICBMs. Maybe such a fact had a lot to do with the Canadian compaigns seeking a peaceful resolution to the Cold War. :p

Also, explaining the "Polar Route" for transcontinental air traffic is a 'no brainer' with the right map.

In addition, and not for the least reason, the maps were also useful for shaking up the students' preconceived notions of reality - always a worthwhile goal for a teacher. :cool:

And, as this thread makes very apparent, these projections are still having the same welcome effect on us today!

Here are lots more:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=polar+centred+world+maps+in+schools

So there you go. Those maps have been common teaching tools in Ontario schools for almost fifty years. I'm not surprised at all that one should appear in a movie, in fact I'm quite pleased to see one again. Nostalgia! I guess the same situation doesn't apply everywhere, but maybe it should. ;)

Cheers,

Brian

[cursichella1]

Thought it looked familiar...reminded me of those fold your own globe cutouts for "after the pole shift". If you turn the classroom map 90 degress Left, it looks a lot like this one (of several) "post pole shift" maps.

These maps were created for those believing there will be a cataclysmic pole shift soon, so a water enundation map....this is supposed to show predictable "safe' zones.

"post pole shift" map close up of North America

https://survivingthepoleshift.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/north_america_aftertime_map-onside-notated.jpg

28787 http://www.zetatalk.com/poleshft/pgeon.gif

[cursichella1]

Best shot I could get, turned the contrast up a little to try and make the words more legible / lines darker.

I'm with you guys, I can't really watch TV for entertainment anymore, I'm obsessed with stuff in the background. Too much Kubrick :P

lol It looks pretty normal now. (Which is quite a relief!)

[Twig]

@ Bill.....Hahahaha...Oh thats just too funny but i'm still with the main blonde chick. As the guy says from the old tv show about US prisoners in German camp
"I know Nothing"...

So many maps; long maps , short maps, sideways maps, upside down maps, flat maps, foldable maps....I feel nauseous ....LOL

So can someone tell me where i am?..lol..I already had my birth country taken from me, all i need now is to find out i'm not really where i think i am...LOL

[Twig]

@ cursichella1...Oh sweet Jesus now ya tellin me i'm going to drown. Guess I better invest in some scuba gear OR a surfboard..lol

[Selmir1984]

its maybe just nonsense or not who knows...surely not...a lot of movies in the past had covered symbols or predictions or ..you know and then people find it and put it on youtube or else...so maybe they do the same with this card in this movie..maybe someone know the future and how the continents splitt and look..or the past....maybe its the real ..maybe its some other earth or parallel dimension..it can be various things or it can be simple and its nothing who knows...but i think it must be mean something...
maybe iám just in my fantasy..;)

[Frank V]

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For everyone on this thread (Twig especially!): a hilarious clip from WEST WING, all about changing the standard map projection of the world to promote social equality for developing countries. :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA0BLrLW0PE

I'd like to make a little semi-off-topic comment here, if I may, Bill. ;-)

In the clip, they mention Mercator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus_Mercator) maps, and that Mercator was a German cartographer. Well, that is not exactly correct, and this is something I personally know a thing or two about. :-)

Gerardus Mercator's real name was Gerard de Cremer, and he was Belgian -- Flemish, to be precise. More specifically even, he was born in the village called Rupelmonde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupelmonde), which has been usurped by the municipality of Kruibeke in the 1970s due to an administrative reorganization of the list of towns and cities at the government level, but which used to actually be an independent city in the middle ages, built around a castle with twelve towers, of which only one tower currently remains.

I grew up in Rupelmonde. I've lived there with my family until I was 17 years old, and I still drive over to Rupelmonde about once or twice a month (if not more often). I also had to give a presentation on Mercator when I was in middle school. So I know the village quite well. :-)

Below is an old postcard showing Mercator's birth house (on the right). The street leads to the market square, and that street is still named Kloosterstraat today -- it means "Convent Street", because sideways across the street from Mercator's birth house used to be a convent.

http://images.delcampe.com/img_large/auction/000/176/097/693_001.jpg?v=1


Mercator's bronze statue is still at the center of the market square of the village, wearing a very turquoise hue from oxidation, and it is perpetually mistaken for a public toilet by the resident pigeons. :p

https://cvosenioren.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/img_2578.jpg


The only remaining tower of the once very huge castle is now used a maritime museum.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aRYYvAFERDo/TzgYrmn8eZI/AAAAAAAAASw/_YjwnSv2-_w/s1600/Rupelmonde+1.jpg


:focus: :p

[aranuk]

Hi Aragorn nice pictures, but we all here prefer looking at maps. Show us a couple and we may believe you.:p

Stan

[Frank V]

Hi Aragorn nice pictures, but we all here prefer looking at maps. Show us a couple and we may believe you.:p

Stan

Ask and ye shall receive. :p

The green-colored region here below denotes a geographical region called Waasland or "Land van Waas" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waasland). The north-western border of the region also marks the border between Belgium and The Netherlands. A square marker denotes the main municipality, and a dot marker denotes towns/villages that have been merged with the larger municipalities.

Rupelmonde has -- as I wrote higher up -- been merged with Kruibeke. That means that it still retains its name, but its administration and political governance is completely handled by Kruibeke. Rupelmonde is in the lower right corner of the map, and Kruibeke is to the north of it and slightly more to the east. The south-eastern border of the region is formed by the river Scheldt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheldt), which originates in France and ends up in the North Sea in The Netherlands.

http://zeelandboeken.pzc.wegenerwordpress.nl/files/2012/11/waasland-f760.jpg

[Becky]

I wish i could just watch a movie for a movie....sigh

I hear ya. Watching The Hunger Games, all I could think was, yeah, 12 (formerly 13) (how Illuminati is that) slave hives of 500,000 people, serving the Illuminati city ensconced in a wilderness paradise.

Wait til you see the third Hungers Games - symbolism everywhere...

[aranuk]

Hi Aragorn nice pictures, but we all here prefer looking at maps. Show us a couple and we may believe you.:p

Stan

Ask and ye shall receive. :p

The green-colored region here below denotes a geographical region called Waasland or "Land van Waas" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waasland). The north-western border of the region also marks the border between Belgium and The Netherlands. A square marker denotes the main municipality, and a dot marker denotes towns/villages that have been merged with the larger municipalities.

Rupelmonde has -- as I wrote higher up -- been merged with Kruibeke. That means that it still retains its name, but its administration and political governance is completely handled by Kruibeke. Rupelmonde is in the lower right corner of the map, and Kruibeke is to the north of it and slightly more to the east. The south-eastern border of the region is formed by the river Scheldt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheldt), which originates in France and ends up in the North Sea in The Netherlands.

http://zeelandboeken.pzc.wegenerwordpress.nl/files/2012/11/waasland-f760.jpg

Hi Aragorn I was joking with you. I do believe you do know what you are talking about really. The jokes on me now Sir. Take care buddy.


Stan

[Frank V]

Hi Aragorn nice pictures, but we all here prefer looking at maps. Show us a couple and we may believe you.:p


Ask and ye shall receive. :p

The green-colored region here below denotes a geographical region called Waasland or "Land van Waas" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waasland). The north-western border of the region also marks the border between Belgium and The Netherlands. A square marker denotes the main municipality, and a dot marker denotes towns/villages that have been merged with the larger municipalities. [...]
Hi Aragorn I was joking with you. I do believe you do know what you are talking about really. The jokes on me now Sir. Take care buddy.


I know you were joking, Stan, but now I'm back on topic because I posted a map. :p

[araucaria]

This might be the thread to go over why the Earth seems to have a This Way Up sticker on the side. Why is it that nearly all land masses ‘drip’ down from north to south, and rarely up from south to north (Britain being the main exception, but the Brits can never do anything the same way as everyone else)? There must be a great attractor in the direction of the south pole.

[Sierra]

This might be the thread to go over why the Earth seems to have a This Way Up sticker on the side. Why is it that nearly all land masses ‘drip’ down from north to south, and rarely up from south to north (Britain being the main exception, but the Brits can never do anything the same way as everyone else)? There must be a great attractor in the direction of the south pole.

It's the gravity. Gravity makes everything sag downward... :)

[Twig]

:(...watcha tellin me is that gravity is a male invention then??

[Flash]

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Here's a slightly different version...

http://kartoweb.itc.nl/geometrics/Bitmaps/Azimuthal%20equal-area.gif

... which is a polar azimuthal equal-area projection.

WHY anyone would want to produce maps like this may be a different question!

Aliens use it to land at the polar entrance to the underground world...

(What is wrong with me today?)

Because i am Canadian. This is part of my world view, from the North pole. Anyhow most of the time i am subjected to maps where everything above the 42nd parallel does not exist. To a point where Alaska is almost glued to Hawai and near Florida. Those are the USA maps. Canada does not exist.

So, for once, i can see the world from my vantage point, me being on top of it ;)

[Inversion]

Well, this thread is the best location I could find for this unexplained map. It's on Benjamin Fulford's website on his new series called Beyond Blue Beam. It's supposedly from the Hindenburg's lounge in the 1930's showing airship routes. The chairs look modern, but the lighting fixtures match the other photos. The narrator in the video on his site claims it could be earth's landmasses before a great flood. The blue areas on land could indicate something other than water.

Fulford (https://benjaminfulford.net/beyond-blue-beam-5/)

THE ZEPPELINS

This is a slight deviation from the usual UFO and off world sightings. Enjoy a little history of the lighter than air Zeppelin ships.
In the dimly lit dining lounge aboard the legendary Zeppelin Hindenburg, a mysterious map hangs upon the wall, its ancient contours hinting at forgotten realms and lost civilizations. Whispers among the crew suggest it might be a relic from a time before the great floods receded, offering a clearer glimpse into the enigmatic past. Could this map hold the key to unlocking the secrets of a world lost to the annals of time? With every line and symbol, it beckons adventurers to embark on a journey of discovery, to uncover the truth hidden within its cryptic cartography and unravel the mysteries of the old world before they fade into oblivion once more.

rare historical photos (https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/hindenburg-interior-photos/)
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-upkQIXVFZLE/Wgq-lh66laI/AAAAAAAC4uY/2WwMcaRhZlggGdHFt1msIJQsUWWCj2DZwCLcBGAs/s1600/hindenburg-interior-4.jpg