I saw an episode of a TV show with Jennifer Love Hewitt where she ran a business in Sugar Land TX and lives in Beaumont. Anyone in the greater Houston area
would know that was very impractical. That would be a 3 hour or more drive during rush hours. Not the quick jaunt as shown in the show. Someone should have looked at a map.
David Bigwood
Lunar and planetary Institute
P.S. We have a good collection of planetary imagery on our Flickr page. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lunarandplanetaryinstitute/
From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of John M Anderson
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 11:37 AM
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Subject: Re: Geographically incorrect
The geography in NCIS New Orleans is all messed up. For example, in one recent episode they raided a camp in Holly Beach, LA that was shown near New Orleans
on their maps when it’s over 200 miles away in the southwest part of the state. They need to hire a local map librarian as a consultant. A few art departments from the local “Hollywood South” studios have come in and I registered with them as a local resource
but haven’t had much contact.
As a side note, we provided the official 1927 Louisiana state map that appears in the movie the Green Mile.
John
Map Librarian and Director
Cartographic Information Center
Department of Geography & Anthropology
LSU
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
(225) 578-6247
From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Ken Grabach
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 11:02 AM
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Subject: Re: Geographically incorrect
I remember a TV pilot, sometime in the 1970s, supposedly set in Flint, Michigan. The scenario of the pilot involved a Soap Box Derby event. So far, so good, there's a really nice Derby track on a small slope near one high school (or there
was at the time, don't know if it's still there). The egregious error was that it was filmed in California and showed a glorious background of the snow-capped Sierra Nevada! There are hills in Michigan, only few in SE Michigan, but no faulted mountain peaks,
and definitely none high enough to be snow-capped in summer!
Ken Grabach
Maps Librarian
BEST Library, 219D
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, OH 45056 USA
513-529-1726
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Stone, Howard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I thought of another example:
When I was a kid in the 1950s, the Pennsylvania Dutch Country was full of tourist attractions with Dutch themes and logos like windmills. I don't know if this is still true. It was only after many years that I learned that the Pennsylvania Dutch are German
and not Dutch.
For instance, see
https://www.dutchhaven.com/