Check out Texas on this "tourist" map. Is this how they see us?

[Schema Thing]

http://www.usatourist.com/english/tips/maps.html#map

[pres2032]

1. what's wrong with it?

other than it's missing Dallas?

[Allenberg]

2. I don't get it.

:shrug:

[MercutioATC]

3. Are you talking about Lukenbach being listed as a "major city"

when it has a population of less than twenty people?

[LDS Jock]

4. and it is in the map where Austin should be

instead of west Texas where it is located

[ashling]

9. I'm sorry, but L'bach is closer to Austin

than it is to West Texas.

It's located southeast of Fredericksburg, in the hill country.

[Seabiscuit]

12. And how come Big Sur is there but no city in Connecticut or Rhode Island?

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. There are a couple things wrong with that map..

Dallas and Austin are not mentioned and there are no major cities listed for North Carolina, Ohio, Arkansas, West Virginia, or Maine.

[LDS Jock]

6. and Kennebunkport is the leading city in Maine

I think NOT

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. I know...

:wtf:

[pres2032]

7. heh, i just noticed that

apparently there are barely any major highways in PA too. hehe didn't know that, must've been illusions i was driving on. :silly:

[elperromagico]

10. We don't wear shoes in Arkansas neither, hyuck hyuck.

:silly:

[MrScorpio]

11. Where the hell is I-75?

This map is fucked

[Seabiscuit]

13. Where the fuck is Route 66???

[barb162]

17. It starts in Chicago and then goes to CA, at least it used to

go to CA

[Seabiscuit]

20. I meant: I don't see it on this map.

What's a map of the U.S. without Route 66?

[CO Liberal]

22. Route 66 Is No More

Except for a few stretches of the old highway in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, Route 66 was replaced by I-44 and I-40. I was looking forward to traveling on Route 66 during my first trip west in 1993 - I was very disappointed to find most of the Mother Road gone.

[Seabiscuit]

26. Oh, Noooooooooo, Mr. Bill!

You mean you can't "get your kicks on Route 66" any more?

:cry:

[Lexingtonian]

14. sorta

It's obviously designed with German, French, Spanish, and Japanese tourists in mind. German tourists tend to hit Florida, New York/Boston/Phillie/DC, the German Triangle in the Midwest and Great Plains, the Texas Hill Country, and some other places they've seen on TV- California, Vegas, Atlantic City, and for some reason desert Western places like Zion NP. Cajun country is something of French tourist destination. Japanese tourists focus on the Pacific Northwest and California and the big cities of the coastal northeast.

I have no idea why all these cities around Nashville are listed. I think older Country Music has for some bizarre reason caught on in wierd corners of the world, like France and Germany iirc, which could be some kind of explanation. SLC is probably on there for overseas Mormon converts.

[St. Jarvitude]

16. That would certainly explain Branson, MO

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

edit: because I'm a fucking moron and couldn't remember missouri's two letter postal code

[SmileyBoy]

15. They spelled Bismarck wrong.

:)

[johnnie]

18. We have no major cities in Ohio n/t

[lukasahero]

24. Nor NH or RI... And Kennebunkport is the only one listed in ME

Yuh, ok. Strange map.

[LynneSin]

19. Philadelphia where Reading should be and Cape May was replaced...

by Atlantic City

[Tweed]

21. TOURIST is the KEY word here folks

Look at the cities that made the map. The one that sticks out to me is Branson. It's all for tourists.

[kick-ass-bob]

23. I'm glad they have Helena, Cheyenne and Boise

but nothing in NC.

[yellowdogintexas]

25. click on the "national Parks" link. it changes from cities to

national parks, the only ones east of the Mississippi that are shown are
Acadia, Smokey Mountains and Everglades.

Not even Gettysburg, and where did they lose Mammoth Cave??