Have You Had Your Five a Day?
Cartographers generally agree that there are significant benefits to viewing at least five maps or globes every day. Regular map consumption can help improve your geographical awareness, strengthen your navigational muscles and provide essential nourishment for your inner explorer. The 5 A Day campaign is based on advice from the International Geographical Union, which recommends playing at least one map game every day to lower the risk of geographical ignorance, chronic misplacement and embarrassing incidents of getting lost. Fortunately, you don't need to swallow an entire atlas to get your daily geographical intake. Here are three nutritious map games to add to your daily cartographic diet. 1. KnowWhere: World Cities Think of KnowWhere as your daily serving of geographical greens. Each day, you're presented with five cities and challenged to locate them on an unlabeled map. Drop a pin where you think each city belongs, then answer three questions about each location. The...
