Interesting Maps

M5

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/

Example, countries NOT invaded by GB

--Kaiser--

This one's cool

bnt

Try the Peters Projection Map: it accurately shows the relative areas of countries. Yes, Africa really is over 3x as large as the USA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM

Funkfield

CGP Grey on youtube likes his maps. Not sure if wholly relevant but .......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vui-qGCfXuA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkYlIA7mgw

He has lots more, on maps, countries etc.

bnt

bnt wrote: »

Try the Peters Projection Map: it accurately shows the relative areas of countries. Yes, Africa really is over 3x as large as the USA.

Son Of A Vidic

Legal systems of the world map....

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Ye've probably seen this before, but it always amazed me:




Presuming this is air networks:




Not a map, but the contrast is amazing between the countries:

losthorizon

M5 wrote: »

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/

Example, countries NOT invaded by GB

Funny thing is, they took on Iceland and lost!

Son Of A Vidic

Tasty map, minus Greenland (probably eaten).

lil_lisa

Even tastier map, minus all countries (because it was THAT tasty )

Allyall

southcentralts

biko

M5

Map of Facebook connections

Victor

Note Facebook isn't all that popular in Russia and China, hence those countries don't really show.

Note also how country-level maps can be poor at indicating where people live.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_population_density_map.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_population_density_1994.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_density_with_key.png

intellectual dosser

Saw this thread yesterday and saw the below article today.

Washington Post - 40 maps that explain the world.

Some have already been posted here, some really interesting ones.

smoking_kills

Faith+1

Mother of God! You have to work over 6 hours in Afganistan to buy a Big Mac :eek: but I suppose living there that would be the least of your problems.

Cookie_Monster

I'm surprised Afganistan even has a minimum wage

cherryghost

Map of the world adjusted by population size.

Blisterman

Simple, but I find this interesting in how it's barely recognisable. It's a map of Europe upside down.

Allyall

Blisterman wrote: »

Simple, but I find this interesting in how it's barely recognisable. It's a map of Europe upside down.

But all the names are the right way up..





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http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/
http://bustedstuff87.blogspot.ie/2010/10/interesting-maps-of-world.html

I like this one

This is a World fire map from September 2, 2009 from The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) funded by NASA. Each fire detection on the map represents the center of one-kilometer pixel where one or more real-time fires are actively burning. What I find most interesting about this map is the huge portion of our planet that is actively burning. I am curious as to what percent of these fires are from natural causes (lightning) vs. human causes (agricultural burning and land clearing). An article below this map also talks about how the only fire on September 2, 2009 that made the world news was in Hollywood, CA while it looks like the whole southern part of Africa and most of South America is burning.

Allyall

Another upside down map. - It took me longer than i thought it would, to find Europe.



http://whatthafact.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/World-Map-Country-Names.jpg

flutterflye

Blisterman wrote: »

Simple, but I find this interesting in how it's barely recognisable. It's a map of Europe upside down.

It looks completely recognisable to me
Even if the names weren't there, I'd know what it was instantly.

FreudianSlipOn

M5 wrote: »

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/

Example, countries NOT invaded by GB

Also only countries that don't have an Irish bar.


RABBLE :P

Rented Mule

bnt wrote: »

Try the Peters Projection Map: it accurately shows the relative areas of countries. Yes, Africa really is over 3x as large as the USA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM

We bought two maps for my son's room. I want him to have a working understanding of geography. I ended up trying to explain this video to him.

The funny thing was the maps that we were hanging were made in China.