james_davis_nicoll | Dear makers of this map

How many illegal occupiers live in that stretch of BC coast improperly claimed by the US?

This is what it looks like if I claim to have visited PEI:

visited 9 states (69.2%)
Create your own visited map of Canada (http://douweosinga.com/projects/visited?region=canada)

I generally imagine PEI as being more, I don't know, islandy.

Edited 2011-02-25 17:35 (UTC)

The bridge brought it closer!

I'm glad to see that Newfoundland and Labrador's finally finished filling in Ungava Bay - I thought that project would be dragging on forever. Or does that land properly revert to Nunavik, now that it's land?

I also note that by "percent" zie isn't talking about anything actually relevant, like area or population: Nunavut is way more than 7.6% of the area, and way less than 7.6% of the population. (No, I haven't been there, I just wanted to see the output.)

Is there anything to not spelling it "Québec"?

Actually, it appears that Jamesland and Ungavaland (since it's not really accurate to call them "bays" anymore, apparently) are part of Nunavut, along with that triangle-shaped land connecting Quebec to Baffin Island. Finally, no geographic boundaries stand in the way of high-speed rail from Windsor to Iqaluit!

Ontario, BC, Quebec, etc. also aren't countries.

(No matter how much some in Quebec want to change this.)

I haven't looked at the details, but what section of BC coast that is labelled as US? There really is quite a bit of the west coast that is actually Alaska, so your map looks approximately right to me. But admit that I haven't compared vs a "real" map.

No, there's a section of the coast claimed by Alaska. As a moderate, I accept that the US presence on the lands specified within the Treaty of Paris is tolerable for the moment but reject the legality of such dubious developments as the Louisiana purchase and various west coast land grabs.

visit ireland, its not there, visit great britian, its not there...

Ah, I'd missed that subtlety!

Canada wants Juneau? Have at it.

What are you complaining about, they names a whole new section of Canadia after you: Jamesland.

Percentage of potentially visitable geographic units, of course. Nunavut is 7.6% of the divisions they're counting.

This seems to be a bug in the Google Charts API (which this site is just an interface to)

If you manually set a zoom and highlight the UK and Ireland:

You can see it does know where Northern Ireland is, but I think when you use the entire-world view it scales the overlay and the background differently and Northern Ireland disappears.

If you highlight just Northern Ireland on the world map, it's a tiny pixel or two of color.

ANd it seems they ceded part of Quebec to Labrador. And what of the territories?

Wait, that's water, not land. Gah! Stupid random sleep is hosing my brain.

I always feel triumphant when someone not from the US displays a horrible knowledge of geography (the gentleman who wrote this is from the Netherlands) because the stereotype that only people from the US suck at geography is so profound. (And untrue--almost everyone sucks at geography, and in fact people from Mexico suck even worse at it than we USericans do.)

Cite for the above. Neither Canada nor the UK fared too well on this test.

Well, what would you expect from a resident of Ouendake/the Greater Huron Nation?

ah, thanks, i didn't try that...nice to know they didn't lose it on purpose :>

Now there's a passenger rail dream to pursue!

I'll be interested in reading Inuit and Cree opinions on the idea...especially if they get co-ownership stakes in the rail line proposed.

Edited 2011-02-25 22:38 (UTC)

Shouldn't that be Greater Eeyou Istchee?

Le pénurie dans le monde entier de l'accent aigu ?

What national connections do the Channel Islands have as far as the Google Charts API is concerned? They're the leetle grey dots to the west of the Cherbourg peninsula in your illustration. The Isle of Man (between England and Ireland) is tagged as British although Manx folk have their own legal and taxation systems like the Channel Islanders.

Even if you reject the Louisiana Purchase, that doesn't justify a Canadian claim; Jefferson didn't buy that from King George, he bought it from Napoleon.

(The radical position, of course, is that almost no European-derived land claim in the Americas is legitimate.)

I think James was confusing the Louisiana Purchase with Seward's Folly. The former is irrelevant to Alaska.

No, I covered the west coast under "various west coast land grabs." I was just trying to show how reasonable I can be by also tossing in the Louisiana Purchase, from whose proper resolution Canada would not directly benefit.

that's an odd little test, and not nearly rigorous enough to be all that telling, IMO. while it is true that I am an outlier in terms of geographic knowledge, except for the culturally biased question about CSI (which I got wrong, but in which I was apparently in good compnay) all of the rest were pretty trivial. some of the graphs showing the responses of 18-24 year old americans were quite telling though, e.g. re: the most heavily fortified border, re: the largest exporter of goods and services in $ terms, and re: which country has a majority muslim population. the spread of answers regarding the (2006) population of the US was just pitiful.

very interesting. thanks for the link.

Ah, so the proper claims are either First Nations or Russian.

OK, consensus: spam or unaware of confirmation bias? Note that there's no way I am clicking on that link.

What is this "Canada" of which you speak?

homework spam! my favourite!

It fails to meet the "poor spelling" criteria (mangled English not withstanding - the individual words appear correctly spelt), but otherwise it fits all the criteria of homework spam!

I think this begs a poll on whether your readers are qualified to respond as "competent people" as well as secondary polls on the nature of competency, the nature of international relations, and whether - given the possibly biblical nature of the international relations - one should be required to be 18+ to click on Maria Suslova's survey.[1]

1: Note that I have not actually clicked on the link either. Without a poll to add confirmation bias to my own sense of competency, I do not consider myself in any way qualified to respond to the issue of international relations [2]

2: Though I have a ~~not-so~~ short list of international 'ers I would feel qualified to conduct relations with. But that is neither here nor there. Unless Johnny Depp or John Barrowman are reading your blog.[3]

3: Hey, neither are Canadian, as far as I know. A girl can dream, right?

Feeling foolhardy, I clicked on the link. It looks like a fairly normal survey of perceptions of ethnic relations. Many questions were phrased to force certain equivalencies, but I find that's true of lots of surveys.

Also, please buy some Viagra and Cialis.

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