Mapping The Year

[Gangster Octopus]

Radio 4, Monday 3pm.

Brain Of Britain
That annoying thing with students, lecturers and the bloke of The Now Show whose daddy isn't a god-botherer.
Counterpoint
Round Britain Quiz

[Bizarre Löw Triangle]

Thought this was going to be about the game (maybe it's just a game to me) of identifying the year an atlas was produced based on the political geography.

[Gangster Octopus]

I've mentioned before that I've an old school atlas of my grandfather's from when he was a teacher that has the bits of Czechoslovakia that've been seceded to Germany marked in red, making its date as something in the latter half of 1938 and the beginning of 1939.

[San Bernardhinault]

Thought this was going to be about the game (maybe it's just a game to me) of identifying the year an atlas was produced based on the political geography.

It's not just a game to you. I used to assume everyone did it, but I've got strange looks from other people when trying to pin down the age of world map shower curtains...

[elguapo4]

I've mentioned before that I've an old school atlas of my grandfather's from when he was a teacher that has the bits of Czechoslovakia that've been seceded to Germany marked in red, making its date as something in the latter half of 1938 and the beginning of 1939.

Jesus they didn't hang around back then,they must have been printing it when Chamberlain was still in Munich

[WOM]

I have a massive Reader's Digest World Atlas of my grandfather's from around 1960 that has an image of earth captioned "If we could travel to space, this is what our earth would look like."

[Amor de Cosmos]

Jesus they didn't hang around back then,they must have been printing it when Chamberlain was still in Munich

Possibly added by hand?

[Amor de Cosmos]

In 1989 I bought myself a copy of The Times Atlas of the World. An expensive purchase for me at the time, but I figured it'd be a once in a lifetime deal. Inside of a year pretty much all the maps of Eastern Europe were obsolete.

[ursus arctos]

SB, I do that as well. I’m sure that won’t come as a surprise to anyone on here.

I have the same question as Amor about the 1939 Atlas, in part because I’m not sure how prevalent over-printing (very common with stamps) was in book publishing.

[Bizarre Löw Triangle]

I assume you've all seen this flowchart for dating maps?

https://xkcd.com/1688/

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

I'd never seen that before and it is both brilliant and funny. I'd love to get it as a poster.

[ursus arctos]

Or a shower curtain . . .

[Gangster Octopus]

Possibly added by hand?

Nope. Printed.

[Gangster Octopus]

I'd forgotten Quote...Unquote. Sadly the BBC haven't...

[Gangster Octopus]

Thought this was going to be about the game (maybe it's just a game to me) of identifying the year an atlas was produced based on the political geography.

That would've been Yearing The Map...

[Guy Profumo]

Radio 4, Monday 3pm.

Brain Of Britain
That annoying thing with students, lecturers and the bloke of The Now Show whose daddy isn't a god-botherer.
Counterpoint
Round Britain Quiz

Surely the other one's daddy isn't a god-botherer - he was a bishop, wasn't he?

[Gangster Octopus]

Yay, Round Britain Quiz is back.