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Funny Maps Thread

  • 14-01-2019 3:06am
    #1
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,105 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Don’t know if this has been done before on AH (I suspect it hasn’t), but post up your funny/humorous maps here.

    Here goes...

    fun-maps-15.jpg


    55f1d74bf7f4d9c9a0417dcb660de151.jpg


Comments

  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I love those maps that don't have New Zealand in them. Poor guys are too far away.

    Here's a prime example:

    https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/fun-maps/fun-maps-15.jpg


  • #3
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    Sometimes they leave out other countries...


  • #4
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,105 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Norn Iron - funny ‘cos it’s true! :D

    wmt9n57vp2421.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&0035b10a


  • #5
    Bob Harris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    aaa9f7576cc676de4d7b555b86007554.jpg


  • #6
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,105 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    .


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  • #7
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,708 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    the-offend-everyone-in-europe-map-38601987.png


  • #8
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,376 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Map of world if no land existed

    plain-blue-background.jpg


  • #9
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,039 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    upside-down-map-of-the-world,2003233.jpg
    whX1Llw.jpg


  • #10
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    All Romes lead to Roads


    3acqk6uo6ut01.png


  • #11
    oneilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭oneilla


    Map of battles compiled from Wikipedia data



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK5OsDWYJmQ


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  • #12
    TeaBagMania
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭TeaBagMania


    oneilla wrote: »
    Map of battles compiled from Wikipedia data

    France #1 ?
    surely they cant be serious :D


  • #13
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    The Peters Projection map, which is designed to show relative areas to be compared more accurately:

    0117492_CoverImage_28229_PetersWorldPol_jkt.jpeg

    The standard Mercator Projection map makes North America look much bigger than Africa, but is it? No:
    • Africa: 30.3 million km²
    • North America: 24.7 million km²
    • USA: 9.8 million km²
    So North America is smaller, and the USA - including Alaska (1.7 million km²) - is less than a third the size of Africa. Europe really is that small.

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    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #14
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Culinary-map-Europe-Italy.jpg


    https://atlasofprejudice.com/


  • #15
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    bnt wrote: »
    The Peters Projection map, which is designed to show relative areas to be compared more accurately:

    http://www.stanfords.co.uk/content/images/thumbs/011/0117492_CoverImage_28229_PetersWorldPol_jkt.jpeg

    The standard Mercator Projection map makes North America look much bigger than Africa, but is it? No:
    • Africa: 30.3 million km²
    • North America: 24.7 million km²
    • USA: 9.8 million km²
    So North America is smaller, and the USA - including Alaska (1.7 million km²) - is less than a third the size of Africa. Europe really is that small.


    https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/977:_Map_Projections
    What's that? You think I don't like the Peters map because I'm uncomfortable with having my cultural assumptions challenged? Are you sure you're not... ::puts on sunglasses:: ...projecting?



    map_projections.png


  • #16
    Lirange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Lirange


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEUgch2iQRQ


  • #17
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,202 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    The Mercator projection shows Greenland and Africa to be approximately the same size. In reality, Africa is roughly 14 times bigger!

    greenland-actual-size.png?itok=Uev3hUp0&resize=1100x1100


  • #18
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    The Mercator projection shows Greenland and Africa to be approximately the same size. In reality, Africa is roughly 14 times bigger!
    Back in the days when Nation States weren't a thing in most of the world, the huge advantage of Mercator to navigators on ships was that a straight line on such a map was a straight line in the real world too.


  • #19
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,309 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    fun-maps-37.jpg


  • #20
    Vincent Vega
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    Mark Rippetoe wrote: »
    The "offend everyone in Europe" map

    Couldn't make out Italy so found a better quality one.

    Pasta with ketchup :pac:


  • #21
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    pleas advice wrote: »
    Sometimes they leave out other countries...
    link didn't seem to work, heres another one


    animated-map-bokeh-showing-uk-being-erased-eu-map-cartography-background-united-kingdom-european-union-74139182.jpg


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  • #22
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,807 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Here's a map of the highest group of non-locals in each country in Europe. (The UK contingent are hanging on in as the biggest group in Ireland, against a very strong effort by the Polish. ;) )

    immigrants-europe-country-of-origin.jpg


  • #23
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,039 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    World vertical map put China in middle
    iQccHdz.jpg


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