Interesting Maps

Heraclius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122466382#Comment_122466382

If I'm reading that correctly it claims Ivan the terrible was reigning in the 1750s which is totally wrong.

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122483084#Comment_122483084

Hmm…..

Kermit.de.frog

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Charles Babbage

Corruption

JupiterKid

Map of the principal roads in Europe, 2022

Motorways are represented by the thicker black lines.

Badly Drunk Boy

Cost of Public Liability claims settled

Victor

Congratulations, you have mapped population.

josip

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518365#Comment_122518365

Population will contribute to it for some counties, but that fact that it doesn't align for many counties makes it interesting.

eg Killkenny with a 100k vs Kerry with 150k, yet Kilkenny with over 4 times more claims?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_counties_by_population

Peregrinus

Where are you getting this from? There's no data for Kerry.

magicbastarder

it states that at the bottom of the infographic - carlow and laois also did not provide info.

josip

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518441#Comment_122518441

My mistake, I thought Carlow, Laois and Kerry were in the lowest band. But, I still don't agree that it's simply a mapping of population. Why is Louth in a higher band than Meath? Are claims higher in counties with more populous urban centres?

astrofool

Donegal seems to be an outlier, would public liability include road incidents?

Victor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518553#Comment_122518553

Generally no.

Road traffic collisions would generally come under motor liability. However, if the council repaired a road and did a botch job that caused injury, then that would be covered by public liability.

• Not doing a road repair = non-feasance = NO liability, but may pay out.
• Doing a road repair wrong = non-feasance = liability.
• Doing a road repair maliciously wrong = malfeasance = liability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfeasance

Charles Babbage

Sunset times at solstice

Brief_Lives

Population density comparison, Bangladesh Vs russia (stolen from Reddit)

magicbastarder

the map projection used there magnifies the size of russia, tbf.

Brief_Lives

big time…. its still ridiculously large compared to Bangladesh.

The current population density of Bangladesh in 2024 is 1,180.60 people per square kilometer

The current population density of russia in 2020 is 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre

Russia is largely uninhabitable

Iscreamkone

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122527646#Comment_122527646

Is Russia uninhabitable or just uninhabited?

cdeb

Bit of both .

An awful lot of Russia is frozen for a large part of the year. The likes of Norilsk only exist because there's natural resources to justify settlements (oil/gas). Nobody bar a few traditional nomads would be there otherwise.

But Bangladesh is ridiculously over-inhabited. Birth rates are still very high and the country is literally falling into the river in places. There's huge pressure on space

Capt'n Midnight

It's like you can see the colonies

JupiterKid

Population distribution of the Lower Nile valley in Egypt photographed at night from the ISS in orbit, 2024

JupiterKid

Venice as photographed from the ISS (International Space Station) in orbit, 2023

Charles Babbage

Detailed map of the 2020 US Presidential election

An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election Results: Trump vs. Biden - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122518456#Comment_122518456

because Louth is a county bordering Armagh which is well known for’ crashes ‘

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122541072#Comment_122541072

It’s not their fault, it’s the diesel.

JupiterKid

Map of the 36,000 communes - the smallest unit of local governance - in France.

The largest commune is the city of Paris with 2.5 million inhabitants; the smallest commune has only one inhabitant.

Seth Brundle

Map of English monasteries prior to King Henry VIII's dissolution in the 1530s. This helped enable religious reform but also transferred a lot of wealth and political power away from the Papal church and over to the King and his new Church of England...

[source]

Seth Brundle

The Roads lead to Rome...

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122541971#Comment_122541971

Nitpick: The Church of England wasn't a new church; it was the old church, under new management, so to speak.

It follows that the dissolution of the monasteries didn't mean a transfer of wealth to the Church of England, but from the Church of England. It's true that some of the assets of the dissolved monasteries were transferred to the dioceses, so individual dioceses may have become richer, but most were not; they went to the King, who either kept them or distributed them as patronage to landowners and officials to secure their support and loyalty.

The upshot of all this was a substantial reduction in the church's activities. The network of dioceses and parishes was maintained and even enhanced, but a lot less was done in the way of providing schools, hospitals, almhouses, food distribution and other forms of poor relief. The new poor laws imposed this duty on local landowners instead, but they were distinctly unenthusiastic about discharging it, and the resulting hardship for the poor was one of the reasons for the Pilgrimage of Grace revolt in 1536.

Quantum Erasure

Year country was last invaded, and by who