User:John Nabors

Hello :)

This is my Wikipedia page (21:42, 4 August 2020‎)

I love Wikipedia and use it a lot, so I edit stuff sometimes whenever a page feels wrong.

You can reach me at Johnhnabors@gmail.com if you have emotions you wish to direct to me. (10:28, 25 November 2022‎)

I am interested in urban planning, economics, and generally learning about how the world works. For example, I like maps, but not because maps themselves are inherently interesting. It follows that I don't care much for maps that aren't real, because they teach me very little about the real world. It seems to me that it is difficult to create a map about reality which is not true to reality, and when one is not, it is often clearly discernible as such through analysis.

Maps are effective at representing many types of data which may be otherwise hard to comprehend or remember when left as raw data. Comparisons between multiple different political units, cultures, climates are geographies, are quite very effective on maps because thousands of individual comparisons can be visualized. Every map on Earth represents the same world we live in, and so each new map you see adds a new layer of knowledge onto a spatial understanding of the world.

cool rant (12:58, 1 February 2024)