Why is there a BLANK space in this map of East Berlin?

welcome to map men we're the men and here's the map [Music] this is a map of berlin from 1988 with lots of normal mappings as well as 400 hectares of white that seems awfully suspicious it is awfully suspicious the area highlighted in blank was west berlin which was sealed off from the rest of east germany by the berlin wall and guns the last thing the government wanted was a map of a thriving capitalist spludge with airports shopping centers and family members they used to be able to visit i just really want to fill it in never draw on a map but just because this map has a great gaping hole in the middle of it doesn't mean it's right to say it's wrong because no map is wrong and no map is right and all map is map exactly allow us to explain all maps have to make decisions about what they do and don't include depending on what they're for here's mark standing in berlin he's looking for the starshine heisen splits in basic cafe but here's mark in berlin as it appears on a map of the sewer system ah rohin's indian buildings and here's berlin as it appears on google maps thus a carbohydrate and here's berlin as it appears on a map of violent crime luckily berlin's very safe you see no map can possibly contain all the information if it contained all the information it would look like this now that's a map so for east germans who couldn't visit west berlin this map was accurate west berlin didn't exist just like rutland rutland is real that's a conspiracy so we're not saying that this map is wrong what we're saying is it's extremely silly but this is not the only curiously blank map in the world so here's our roundup of our favorite maps with gaps this atlas of france can't be bothered to show the density-packed roads around paris so it looks like a massive empty field and this google maps image of east asia suggests there are no roads or settlements in north korea because somebody wouldn't let the cartographers in i won't let the cartographers in and this map makes it look like there's nothing in green oh the berlin wall came down in 1989 in a classic episode of the news germany have successfully erased any traits of the berlin wall just as they did with hitler's bunker car bar that's what makes this creepy gap map so interesting it tells the story of a bygone era when citizens freedom of movement was restricted but today all the people of the world can go wherever they please and everything is fine i've drawn a wizard

Channel: Jay Foreman

Views: 2,478,745

Rating: 4.9442081 out of 5

Keywords: Map Men, MAP MEN, Jay Foreman, Mark Cooper-Jones, Maps with gaps, Berlin, Berlin Wall, East Germany, East Berlin, West Berlin, The Berlin Wall, Stasi, Germany, Deutschland, Berliner Muer, muer, 1988, gap, hole, with a gap, with a hole, West Germany, Unfinshed London, Politics Unboringed, Tom Scott, cold war, Rutland, Paris, Greenland, Kim Jong Il, North Korea, Fall of the Berlin Wall, iron curtain, map with a hole

Id: kwprznh3d-o

Length: 2min 34sec (154 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 03 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/LABills]

In a classic episode of the news

[u/dabritian]

The part about North Korea killed me. I am just imagining a bunch of passively aggressive cartographers enviously staring at it waiting for their moment to strike.

[u/tmhoc]

I have now watched all the map men episodes and want more... MORE!

[u/taulover]

Oh wait, this is the guy who made the Unfinished London series way back, right? Glad to see he's turning out more interesting videos.

[u/en0rt]

off to look at North Korea on google maps!

[u/seanthemanpie]

I love these guys! They have a few more "map men" videos, they're all great!

[u/Kaargo]

Disclaimer! Don't use this video to learn german.

[u/Porcheg]

Does anyone know the name of the song at the start of the episode ?

[u/IShouldBeSkiing]

The intro had me sold already