Consider a line drawing of a map of The Netherlands, no internal borders. To draw this you might have to pick up your pen and draw another segment that doesn't touch the first one. What is the simplest line drawing map of The Netherlands that you consider acceptable? #DisjointMap
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Gonna make you "8+" GIS nutters draw a map of the Netherlands, by hand, from memory, and count every single little exclave. Perfectionists.
@futzle doing Zeeland and Waddeneilanden alone would take 8+, even if you only do the big islands that are inhabited. Perfectionism would be to draw Baarle-Nassau.
@cloudedjudge Or Curaçao, Aruba and Sint Maarten.
@futzle indeed. I knew they're part of the kingdom of the Netherlands as (semi) autonomous states, but would not consider them when I think of a map of the Netherlands. Funny that. On my mental map of Australia I see Tasmania. On my mental map of Spain I see Ibiza and Mallorca, but not Tenerife. It's partly explained by proximity I guess, but probably also stems from the Eurocentric point of view I grew up with and is undeniably part of my geographical education.
@futzle wait until Frieslanders barge in with their secessionist attitudes 😉
(More later, requests accepted, but I don't want to flood you.)
@futzle Indonesia?
Canada? USA?
@futzle surprisingly few pixels are required for an acceptable Netherlands map