Interesting Maps

JupiterKid

I have had a huge interest in maps and geography since I was a very small child - I am generally fascinated with the way places and routes are related to each other in spatial terms, and I could pore over a good map for ages.

So here’s a little thread on maps that I find interesting and fascinating - some represent data, some physical features, others may display key routeways and connectivity and others again might show urbanisation and the growth patterns of cities.

Here’s one to start off....The number of army tanks per 10K population in Europe, by country. Feel free to post your own!

Your Face

World map showing folk wrestling styles by region:

Kermit.de.frog

Great thread sir.

JupiterKid

Map showing all the river catchments in Ireland.

The Shannon catchment is in red (roughly in the Centre), that of the rivers Barrow, Nore and Suir are in pink, the Erne is in yellow and the Liffey and Boyle are in slightly different shades of pale green.

sligojoek

There's a load of that kind of stuff here.

https://www.kottke.org/tag/maps

Ipso

JupiterKid wrote: »

Map showing all the river catchments in Ireland.

The Shannon catchment is in red (roughly in the Centre), that of the rivers Barrow, Nore and Suir are in public no, the Erne is in yellow and the Liffey and Boyle are in slightly different shades of pale green.

What's the purple one that goes through Lough Neagh?

Zaph

Ipso wrote: »

What's the purple one that goes through Lough Neagh?

The Bann

Scarinae

Pangaea (a supercontinent that existed roughly 335-175 million years ago) mapped with contemporary geopolitical borders.



(The original is here)

Victor

JupiterKid wrote: »

I have had a huge interest in maps and geography since I was a very small child - I am generally fascinated with the way places and routes are related to each other in spatial terms, and I could pore over a good map for ages.

Feel free to join up to https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and https://www.openstreetmap.ie/

Not army tanks, but this is a map of storage tanks in Ireland: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/OGu - May take 15-20 seconds to load. If nothing shows, press 'Run'. May not work on some devices.

Wanderer78

This thread is better than pornhub, nice one op

Ipso

Duckworth_Luas

Geographic correlation between the location of the historic coal mining regions in England/Wales and Labour victories in the last UK general election.




Visualisation of the antipodes of each point on land.



Only 2% of the Aussie population live in the shaded area below




The growth of Walmart stores throughout the United States.




Countries that use Fahrenheit Vs those that use Celsius.







Supposedly the location of each car bomb detonated in Baghdad between 2003 and 2015.




Poster for an 80's horror film.

Badly Drunk Boy

I like the American Werewolf poster but where is the catchment area of the werewolf's ear when you compare to JupiterKid's river map?

Only slightly related, but I was wandering down my town via Streetview when I noticed that the Department of Defence building was blurred out. Fair enough, since it's a Department of Defence (not that any foreign powers would be bothered with it). Then I noticed another house that was blurred out, an old single-storey cottage in a back-street. Why would anyone bother with that? I presume the owner requested it.



Anyway, back to maps! Here's a map of the most common surnames in Europe by country:

Cee-Jay-Cee

Scarinae wrote: »

Pangaea (a supercontinent that existed roughly 335-175 million years ago) mapped with contemporary geopolitical borders.



(The original is here)

Ireland would be one of the best places to live on the planet if that were the continental arrangement today, sea to the west of us, land mass to the east and just the right distance from the equator to be warm all year round....stupid continental drift!!

JohnnyFlash

Regions of the world where life expectancy is above 80.

Hector Savage

JupiterKid you always have really interesting threads!!!

Cheers for this on a dreary rainy morning!

wakka12

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I like the American Werewolf poster but where is the catchment area of the werewolf's ear when you compare to JupiterKid's river map?

Only slightly related, but I was wandering down my town via Streetview when I noticed that the Department of Defence building was blurred out. Fair enough, since it's a Department of Defence (not that any foreign powers would be bothered with it). Then I noticed another house that was blurred out, an old single-storey cottage in a back-street. Why would anyone bother with that? I presume the owner requested it.



Anyway, back to maps! Here's a map of the most common surnames in Europe by country:

In germany you see loads of houses blurred

Hector Savage

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Regions of the world where life expectancy is above 80.

Whats with the Northern Territory in Australia ?
Mainly aborigines live there ? sad...

Seth Brundle

I come across loads of visualisations like this through work research.

Map of Least and Most Peaceful Countries in the World

Source: Global Peace Index

Global Civilian Gun Ownership

Source:RGloucester/Wikimedia

European Average IQ by Country

Source: Jakub Marian/jakubmarian.com

Map of Europe During Medieval Times

wikipedia

World Map, 1595

Source: wikimedia

World Map, 1700

Wikimedia Commons

Cartoon Map of Europe, 1914

Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/cartoon-map-of-europe-in-1914/

Map of Driving Orientation

red=right side; blue=left side
Source: wikipedia

Map of European Hand-Washing Routines

Seth Brundle

I just came across this one (ooer missus!)

Breast Sizes Relating to Countries

https://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=5285

Widdershins

Cool. Must read thus thread asap. There are books about strange and interesting maps, you would probably love them. The Ordnance Survey peoe have a sort of puzzle book out as well.

Seth Brundle

...and for gender balance...

The Penis Size Worldwide

https://www.boredpanda.com/maps-they-didnt-teach-you-in-school/

Badly Drunk Boy

Map of the Earth With Mercator Projection Using a Different Centre-point:

Omackeral

Here's the Earth's population divided in four. Each colour represents an equal amount of people.

Seth Brundle

Map of Bike Lanes in Europe

Posted on Instagram in June 2018 but it gives a good idea of how crap Ireland is!

Seth Brundle

Map of the 42 Landlocked Countries

ohnonotgmail

The ones in purple are doubly landlocked countries i.e. countries surrounded completely by landlocked countries.

Skylinehead

Omackeral wrote: »

Here's the Earth's population divided in four. Each colour represents an equal amount of people.

Another version:

magic_murph

MOD - Deleted quoted map and snide comment

Seth Brundle

Pornhub Released a Detailed Map of the World's Porn Interests

(This is for 2017 and because I'm in work I have to be careful what I search for!)

Junkyard Tom

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Geographic correlation between the location of the historic coal mining regions in England/Wales and Labour victories in the last UK general election.

https://assets1.bigthink.com/system/tinymce_assets/1188/original/coal_vs_votes.jpg?143205

I love that. I think about how our environment affects us quite a bit. Take car culture - in the US they're all about straight line speed, muscle cars, drag racing etc presumably related to long continental roads over flat plains. In Europe it's rally cars and formula one - all about the cornering in a continent of narrow roads, bridges, mountain passes etc.

Seth Brundle

I love this interactive map from August relating to the UK exit...
How a no-deal Brexit threatens your weekly food shop
UK reliance on EU food imports is a major risk if the country crashes out of the union...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2019/aug/13/how-a-no-deal-brexit-threatens-your-weekly-food-shop

borderlinemeath

magic_murph wrote: »

Mod - Deleted

Loving this thread. Married, one child, showed my husband, he's fascinated by maps as well.

I got a present of an atlas for my 8th birthday (nearly 40yrs ago), a big hardback one. Still have it and love looking at the old borders and showing my kid that there used to be a country called Yugoslavia, and that Germany used to be 2 countries. Lots of other fascinating data too.

Stick around a while, you might actually learn something.

AndyBoBandy

Props to Tabnabs in the Maritime thread for these posts, but I think they are stunning maps.

1st is ships log entries from 1740 - 1855

Tabnabs wrote: »

Seems as good a place as any to put this

2nd is a 1945 map drawn from ships logs.

Tabnabs wrote: »

A map drawn from ships logs from 1945.

AndyBoBandy

MOD - This thread has potential, so lets leave the snide comments at the door please.

Boom_Bap

Finland being the balls

Raconteuse

Omackeral wrote: »

Here's the Earth's population divided in four. Each colour represents an equal amount of people.

Amazing.

The porn one is hilarious. Mad for the lesbians are the English speakers, and mad for the auld anal are those Russians.

DaMorganator

What really blew my mind was when I found out that the sizes of countries we see on standard maps of the world are very much distorted!

As the world is spherical we cannot truly represent it on a 2D map without some distortion. The standard map you will see uses the Mercator projection (one of many different types of projections). This distorts the map so that countries along the equator are shown a lot smaller in comparison to those nearer the poles which are exaggerated in size.

An excellent site that allows you to compare countries sizes to each other to get a more true representation is https://thetruesize.com/

Here is an example:


As you can see that when DRC is moved up to Europe and Greenland's position on the map, its size greatly increases.

The website is easy to use and gives you a far greater appreciation of the true size of countries along the equator!

buried

ednwireland

irish railways 1906

JohnnyFlash

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Finland being the balls

If your cock and balls are shaped like that then I’d suggest you visit a doctor.

Deebles McBeebles

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

If your cock and balls are shaped like that then I’d suggest you visit a doctor.

Does yours not have loads of little mountain-like bumps on the top and a gaping "mouth" at the end? Weirdo.

EmmetSpiceland

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

If your cock and balls are shaped like that then I’d suggest you visit a doctor.

The €1 coin has a much better “depiction”, if you ask me, J. Takes Norway out of the equation.

Badly Drunk Boy

ednwireland wrote: »

irish railways 1906

Or there's the dwindling train services down through the years (1925-1975) in this gif. (Sorry it's a bit big. The other version was too small.)

SmallTeapot

Map of countries not using the metric system



Map of alcohol consumption throughout the world



Map showcasing alcohol expenditure




Map of worldwide coffee consumption



Highest paid job/ state in USA

ohnonotgmail

Is that the highest paid of any type of job or the highest paid job in a medical field?

Beasty

sligojoek wrote: »

There's a load of that kind of stuff here.

https://www.kottke.org/tag/maps

So if The Baltics merged with Finland and threw Romania into the mix should their anthem start

"Oh my God Lithuania, wake up!"

cruizer101

I'd say limited to medical. Here is highest paid public jobs in US, see where their priorities lie.

SmallTeapot

I have some more....(!) Btw I'm a big visual data nerd, I especially love infographics and visually striking, yet informative figure.
I know this thread is specifically aimed at maps, however, if anyone is interested I highly recommend the Information is beautiful website


Anyways, back to maps

World map of billionaires 2018



Where tourists spend the most money




Map of Hazardous waste by country




Most popular messaging app in every country



Map of the wealthiest nations



Map of the most corrupt nations




Map of happiness

SmallTeapot

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Is that the highest paid of any type of job or the highest paid job in a medical field?

Highest paid job above all other jobs according to the source