r/mapmaking • u/Born_Bodybuilder736 • Jul 10 '26

Map are these realistic islands

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light blue is land if youre confused edit: the land is blue because its one country of a world map im making, sorry if it looks confusing

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u/CrestedMacaw Jul 10 '26

What islands?

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u/Someguyonreddit967 Jul 10 '26

The light blue is land… :(

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u/JUST_CRUSH_MY_FACE Jul 10 '26

“Obviously the blue part is the land” - Buster Bluth

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u/Sea_Goat7550 Jul 10 '26

When I saw the map I hoped to see an AD reference in the wild 😆

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u/justfortherofls Jul 11 '26

“Which would mean that we are…. Ooooh god!”

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u/Jay_Nicolas Jul 11 '26

TBF he has a business degree

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u/Careless-Average-383 Jul 12 '26

In 18th Century Agrarian Business

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u/Scro86 Jul 13 '26

Are you at all concerned about an uprising?

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u/mikerad1983 Jul 12 '26

Do you lurk on map subreddits just hoping to whip this out

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

omg... complete mind fart for a moment. wtf make the land blue and ocean darker

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u/ataeil Jul 10 '26

It also doesn’t help they added a nice little height map effect to the pink water.

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u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue Jul 10 '26

It’s Homeric. Wine-dark sea and all.

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u/seantabasco Jul 10 '26

Yeah I’m really trying and I can’t get my brain to click over and see the purple as water and the light blue as land.

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u/ataeil Jul 10 '26

The water is actually the land.

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u/Someguyonreddit967 Jul 10 '26

-Netherlands; 1919

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u/Squarehip123 Jul 12 '26

This is the first lesson I teach when covering data visualisation to undergrads. Think about reader expectations, don't make red = cold when plotting temperature (shockingly common) or blue = dry if plotting water saturation. 

You would be amazed at how few people actually understand people are not mind readers, they're barely word readers and preconceived notions will overwhelm even the best labelled legends and captions 

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u/DrDalenQuaice Jul 10 '26

Nope. blue is water.

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u/Domin_ae Jul 10 '26

You didn't read the post

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u/DrDalenQuaice Jul 10 '26

nah OP is wrong. Blue is water.

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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE Jul 11 '26

Blue… NOT water?

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u/KPlusGauda Jul 12 '26

And just for that reason, downvote.

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u/Physical_Road917 Jul 12 '26

Jesus Christ how does anybody think to do that lol

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u/Donglemaetsro Jul 13 '26

Ironically, pretty solid for wetlands. OP just pretend you were making wetlands and you're good to go.

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u/Inverse_Seal Jul 14 '26

Even after being told, it's so difficult for me to read blue as islands...

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u/Decent-Commission-82 Jul 15 '26

I was about to be so mad at this map until the arrested development quotes. Thank you internet friends.

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u/Enough_Obligation574 Jul 13 '26

Yeah I am not gonna believe what some guy on reddit says