Simple, but wrong

Map accompanying store on the 2017 Turnitin Global Innovation Award Winners
Source: http://turnitin.com/en_us/home

Artists quite often take liberties. But in this case whole swaths of the world have disappeared. New Zealand now has only one island. Tasmania is now connected to the rest of Australia. Ireland, Sri Lanka, Newfoundland, and Iceland have all disappeared and there are no islands in the caribbean.

I'm not sure how this made it past the approval stage, but it is a bit lacking. And the irony is that one of the winners of the Global Innovation Awards comes from a country that was left off the map. (The University of the South Caribbean, Trinidad And Tobago won the Winner: Moving Forward with Integrity award.)

Portugal has ceased to exist

Cover of brochure from Hampshire Labs

This brochure arrived in the mail today. (Evidently I'm now in the "prostate care" demographic.)

I have no interest in this product, but the map caught my eye.

The cartographer has used a different colour to mark the three countries mentioned in the copy; Spain, France and Italy. But what happened to Portugal? According to this map Portugal, the rectangle at the left-hand edge of Spain, is part of Spain the way that Sicily is part of Italy.

Confusing, inaccurate, and insulting.