Altered Maps XIV: Cartographical Consistency

[Borachio]

Why do American mayors and other such people always sign their letters with such stupid stupidity such as witness my feet and other such nonsense? Maybe mayors from other countries do it too, but I've never seen it.

Not only that, they've also a pet seal who apparently is qualified to witness any signature.

Seems very strange to me, what with all the fish and everything, but there it is.

And these guys have very bad fishy breath as well, I've heard:

 

[warpus]

Is it a remnant of British times, when everyone used to drink tea and be super proper and all that, tipping hats left and right, speaking using convoluted fancy hipster language, wearing wigs, and so on? Just a hypothesis.. How do British mayors sign their letters? Do they use silly talk or do they sign their letters like regular humans?

Anyway, here's a map of Kansas counties:

 

[Borachio]

I'm amazed! Why do Americans show such a lack of imagination when it comes to county boundaries?

Spoiler :

I tell you, I know which I'd prefer as a jigsaw puzzle.

Here's a clue: my home county has an exclave.

 

[warpus]

Americans like straight things.

 

[Borachio]

Fourth from the left on the second and top rows: Graham Norton. Ooer!

Does Kansas know? Does Graham Norton know?

 

[bhsup]

Fourth from the left on the second and top rows: Graham Norton. Ooer!

Does Kansas know? Does Graham Norton know?

Great catch, Borachio! What will the WBC (they are from Kansas after all) make of this?! GOD HATES KANSAS!

 

[gay_Aleks]

Also, Irish comedians, apparently.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I'm amazed! Why do Americans show such a lack of imagination when it comes to county boundaries?

My guess is that since this was frontier territory originally, they needed to easily dole out property in a way that would easily resolve any disputes and issues. Hence, making straight lines is the easiest.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Such an immense lack in creativity.

Here's the counties of more like snoreway:

Spoiler :

 

[warpus]

Hiking in Oppland - I can't wait

 

[Lohrenswald]

I just fixed the united states, y'all.
I expect this brought up in the senate immidiately

Spoiler :

You can thank me later

Forgot to write "Pennsylvania", didn't have any other name in mind, though

 

[Joecoolyo]

No! If merged, it means I can't go to Iowa to escape Illinois, nor go to Illinois to escape Iowa!

 

[choxorn]

Ick. Idaho? Can't we just give Idaho to Montana or Utahlorado?

 

[gay_Aleks]

how about we sell Montana to Canada

 

[choxorn]

Let's just trade it for British Columbia, then they can join up with the rest of the cool parts of the Pacific Northwest and be Cascadia.

 

[Lohrenswald]

A non-american like you have nothing to say on this, Tolni

I was originally planning on merging Idaho with Montana, but I didn't want too many straight lines.

That's why there are so many diagonal straight lines

 

[choxorn]

Just fudge the line on the Idaho-Cascadia border if you don't want it to be perfectly straight!

 

[Takhisis]

Obviously, having all those straight lines derives from the 'no homo' principle.

Great catch, Borachio! What will the WBC (they are from Kansas after all) make of this?! GOD HATES KANSAS!

They have a county called Butler… and one called Bourbon.

Such an immense lack in creativity.

Do they qualify as squares?

Here's the counties of more like snoreway:

Spoiler :

I prefer Halogaland, Rogaland, Kvenland, Sogn, etc.

Norwegians were better when their oil was whales' or olive oil, their ships dragon-prowed, the men valiant and their kings cunning.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Sogn and Rogaland are there, and if you absolutely need Hålogaland there's the bishoprics:

Also cunning kings? You must have misunderstood.

Also, better of in the plague days?

Here's a clue: my home county has an exclave.

Is it Suffolk?

 

[Borachio]

Correctomundo!