Have you noticed these “where I have been” maps, such as this one from Facebook, show some bias?
USA shows individual states, Canada has provinces. Tough luck the rest of the world. If you have been to one town you have “done” the entire country.
Even countries the size of Russia and Australia.
OK, England might be small, but can you really say if you have been to Liverpool you have seen all the entire sodding country has to offer? Seen Red Square? That’s it, you can cross off the rest of the country that covers over half a bloody continent.
I have a sneaky feeling this is because if the programmers did not do this the majority of the users would have only one blob filled in because they don’t own passports 
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I agree, this should be broken down by city. Wow you visited ALL of Russia?
jko
I was looking at the tool hoping it would help me and my wife decide where we should go next on vacation, instead we know we want to visit “*somewhere* in portugal and perhaps spain”
I think it might have something to do with scale. You could fit roughly 14 Englands into 1 Alberta. You’d need a super-high-resolution screen to even SEE Liverpool
That’s the thing though, this particular one has a nifty automatic zoom feature, when your mouse is over a country it zooms in. I can understand resolution stopping having every town but to not have regions of china and russia?
But don’t all Chinese people (places) look alike?
And, yes, I am Chinese-American so I get to make jokes like that. Phhht.
Heh, I hope people read the second bit else I will be getting some nastygrams
Gee, you think they could at least do Australia – there’s only half a dozen or so states.
Pretty sloppy, me thinks of Facebook.
Russia crosses over half a continent? Lol, russia spans over two of them, they could at least show what part is in Europe and which in Asia.
Anyway I guess I will cancel the Transiberian trip I intended to do. Instead, I will step on the red square and go to another big country so I can color a larger percentage of the map in the same time
Can you tell I am not all that hot with the geography?
Lol, neither I am, but Russia always called my attention for being on two continents and having something like 11 or 12 timezones.
Amazing that some people are waking up to work while others are going to bed in proper time on the same country.
I’ve always been troubled by this. To wit, I created a hand drawn map to represent where I’ve been.
Where’s Teddy Been?
It is, of course, out of date by two or three trips. But I like this much much better. I live in Canada, but by no stretch can I say I’ve “done” it. Working on it this summer though, as we venture out towards the Maritimes.
The Facebook application – Cities I’ve Visited – is also a better representation that a simple coloured in map.
My friend Simon has a paper map on the world, he and his missus stick pins in for places they have been. He has one colour, she has another and then they have a third colour for places they have been together. I quite like that idea
Lol, I have a Brazilian friend that hand painted a map of Brazil on the wall of his bedroom (with the help of a light projector) and he drew over the lines where he had traveled through on motorcycle.
For a country that which size is 80% of the size of the whole of Europe, I can say he traveled a lot
Not according to this map, one country = one visit. Counts no more than travelling across Ireland
You are right Chris, silly me. I still couldn’t get rid of old-school way of thinking.
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