Interesting Maps

retalivity

Language map from 1887

JupiterKid

GSI Blue Scale Series topographic/bathymetry map of Bantry Bay and coastal West Cork

JupiterKid

Coup d'etats and coup attempts in Europe since 1945

JupiterKid

Space programmes ranked on level of development by country, 2024

JupiterKid

Master plan of Milton Keynes new city, 1969

Tom Mann Centuria

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123516060#Comment_123516060

SO MANY roundabouts. Here's just a small selection.

Slideways

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123516060#Comment_123516060

My old man grew up in London. I told him I have a new work colleague from Milton Keynes. He is of the era that nobody is “from” Milton Keynes, he must have moved there

JupiterKid

Eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily, captured yesterday (June 4th 2025) by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite.

This new eruption has involved massive plumes of ash and smoke, with extensive lava flows streaking down the side of the volcano. The ash cloud has risen to a height of 6,500 metres (21,000 feet) almost twice as high as Mount Etna itself, standing at 3,350 metres (11,000 feet).

minggatu

Parliament seating arrangements in different countries worldwide.

zell12

The world's largest island-in-a-lake-on-an-island-in-a-lake-on-an-island 😃

joujoujou

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Tom Mann Centuria

Most recent (that I could find) Geographically accurate London Underground Map.

If you click on the map you can zoom in.

Peregrinus

The whole point about the tube map is that it's not geographically accurate. It's a schematic, showing the connections between stations on the system rather than the geographic location of the stations. For example:

• On the map, the distance from Earl's Court to Gloucester Road is the same as the distance from Gloucester Road to South Kensington. On the ground, the first of those distances is nearly twice the second of them.
• On the map, High Street Kensington is further from Gloucester Road than Earl's Court is. On the ground, it's the other way around.
• On the map, Highbury & Islington Station and Hollway Road Station are widely separated; on the ground, they are a few hundred metres apart — the journey between them is quicker by foot than it is by rail.
• On the ground, Queensway Station and Bayswater Station are only about 150 metres apart — you can see one from the other. They're actually closer together than the two Edgeware Road stations, which the map shows as being side-by-side. (They're not.) You'd never know any of that from the map.

Etc, etc. The insight that underpins the design of the London Underground schematic is the realisation that, by and large, users of the map don't care about the geographic location of the stations or their geographic relationship to one another, and the map doesn't need to show that accurately.

The only geographic feature shown on the map is the River Thames, and even that is shown in a stylised and geographically inaccurate form.

Victor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123519037#Comment_123519037

Geographical map from 2014. https://foi.tfl.gov.uk/FOI-4409-2324/London%20Connections%20Map.pdf