Map Nerd & Geography Hats

Maps start in a classroom and, for some people, never stop. The crowd is wider than it looks: atlas owners, vexillologists who will name a favourite flag unprompted and tell you which US state flags are dreadful, and a GeoGuessr community that had passed 40 million player accounts by July 2022, with more than 200,000 people watching its World Cup final live. One of its stars, Rainbolt, put up a Boston billboard that said only "This is Boston. Nice." The jokes here need no explaining. MAP NERD and GEOGRAPHY NERD are the plain badges. VEXILLOLOGIST is the flag-study word, stitched in an arch. GEOGUESSR names the game for anyone who can place a country from the colour of a roadside bollard. THE MERCATOR PROJECTION LIED TO ME is the grievance of everyone who found out Greenland is not the size of Africa, which is about 14 times larger. NEVER EAT SOGGY WAFFLES is the classroom compass mnemonic: north, east, south, west, clockwise. I CAN FIND KAZAKHSTAN ON A MAP is a brag from someone who has actually looked. MAP READER WITH OPINIONS is for anyone with a view on projections and flags, and PAPER MAPS NEVER LOSE SIGNAL is the answer to every dead zone. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, and the Mercator line comes in a second colorway.