Interesting Maps

minggatu

You can sail in a straight line from Georgia to Georgia

https://x.com/TerribleMaps/status/1955341067781382301/photo/1

Bogwoppit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123722799#Comment_123722799

I should have read the website address before I got angry.

zell12

Anyone want to put up a map of Boundary Road WA & 0 Avenue BC, and why the parallel roads exist..

dxhound2005

List of world map projections. The African Union has joined calls for Mercator to be abandoned in favour of something which shows Africa on a more correct scale.

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

https://www.ecofinagency.com/news/1508-48067-africa-s-true-size-the-african-union-pushes-to-redraw-the-world-map

minggatu

Map of The Great Wall Of China

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The map above shows the location of the Great Wall of China. However, unlike popular imagination, the Wall is actually more complex than on simple unbroken straight stone structure."

Here’s more about it:

https://brilliantmaps.com/map-of-the-great-wall-of-china/

The Nal

You can see the moon from the Great Wall of China

New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123725205#Comment_123725205

Post of the week! 😁😁😁

I bet you can even tell us which month has 28 days. 😄

Evade

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123724730#Comment_123724730

Seems like a non starter if the AU's members haven't adopted an alternative yet

minggatu

Employment in agriculture across europe

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1mrt5xx/employment_in_agriculture_across_europe/

minggatu

Which countries produce the most silver? 2023

spacetweek

Explanation : 1 million (Troy) ounces = 31 tonnes.

Mexico’s 202.3 M oz = 6,268 t.

Shedite27

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123725327#Comment_123725327

Sounds like they're pushing for the Equal Earth projection to be the standard

SaxySaxSolo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123725225#Comment_123725225

All of them.

Evade

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123732208#Comment_123732208

Then they should probably adopt it across AU member states before trying to get the rest of thevworld to change

minggatu

The shortest route from Santiago, Chile to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1mtn2l8/the_shortest_route_from_santiago_chile_to/

M.T. Cranium

Boundary Road WA and zero (0) Avenue BC exist on either side of a ditch which is the 49th parallel border between Canada and the U.S. … as there is no border crossing facility between 176 Street near White Rock BC and Aldergrove BC about 30 km east, there is no legal place to cross the international border, but both these streets run most of the way from one border crossing to the next, with houses on the far side of each street (not along the ditch).

Zero Avenue ends a bit short of the Aldergrove crossing by making a jog north, crossing that approach road (BC Highway 13 or 264 Street) and resuming operation as Zero Avenue most of the way to the next border crossing which is Highway 11 south of Abbotsford BC (known as the Sumas crossing, Sumas WA is on the American side).

People have occasionally tried to cross the ditch from one side to the other, but there is extensive electronic and video surveillance, and law enforcement would normally report within a few minutes from a fleet always mobile near the stretch of border. Of course, I have no data about successful evasions of this surveillance, there may be some or there may not be. But people have been apprehended and arrested. One high speed ditch-jumping exercise ended with fatalities in the vehicle involved.

I cannot supply a map, you could consult google earth, but the schematic is as follows:

176 … _________ ..192 St ………………………….. 264 St …………. x …

St … Surrey BC … x…… Langley BC ……………… 264 St …………… x … Abbotsford BC

_____________________________________ 0 Ave _____

============================== Ditch and electronic surveillance corridor

______________________________ Boundary Rd (WA state USA)

note: 192 Street is the border between Surrey BC and Langley BC. Almost all streets in various cities around greater Vancouver are on a numerical grid system. Streets run north-south and avenues run east-west. The avenues start from the border (0 or zero Avenue) and the street system starts from around 40 Street in Delta BC and keeps going through Abbotsford where it reboots after 306 Street to a system of named streets in Abbotsford, but addresses conform to the system even beyond where the street numbers end.

In the city of Vancouver an entirely different and unconnected system of numbered avenues exists, with the highest numbers in south Vancouver. Streets in Vancouver are not numbered but are instead named. In nearby Burnaby BC there are almost no numbered streets or avenues except for a few extensions of Vancouver main avenues here and there. As a courier I learned that addresses in Vancouver added 16 to avenue numbers, for example, 3200 Cambie Street would be found at 16 Ave. This is because the system ends before the grid ends and numbers along the north-south streets do not reverse. As to street numbers east-west, these reverse at Ontario Street which is just a few blocks east of Cambie Street, a main north-south route from downtown Vancouver towards the south end of the city. So an address of 3690 E 49 Ave would be at the Burnaby border and around the corner from 6500 Boundary Road (the name of the street on the Vancouver-Burnaby border).

M.T. Cranium

Could add to the above, most western U.S. and Canadian towns and cities have a numerical grid of streets and avenues. It's a common practice (not observed in the Vancouver area systems) to name the avenues and the streets with two zeroes added, as in 100 Avenue, 200 Avenue etc, and to start from a central point and work in sets of north and south avenues, west and east streets. None of that applies to Vancouver area grids. But it is the setup for Edmonton and a number of other large cities. So the avenue and street numbers are equal to addresses, a location of 7500 12000 St SE would be located where 75 Ave south crosses 120 St E, so it would be 75 avenues and 120 streets southeast of the central point downtown. Additional minor streets and avenues can be named A and B, for example, if there were a 7500A and 7500B Avenue in an industrial park, these would be two small streets between 7500 and 7600 Avenues. Streets that are not as straight as the grid, or run diagonally, would have names and often the designator Way (as in Canada Way, Burnaby, which runs diagonally across the Burnaby grid), or Highway or Drive.

Some western towns have no numbered streets at all. It's fairly common in numbered-street grids for 100 Ave or 100 Street to be renamed Main Street, and sometimes one or two others lose their numbers to a name. In Vancouver, 9th Avenue is called Broadway. There is no zero avenue at the north end of the Vancouver grid, it starts with 1st Avenue (but there are sixteen blocks further north so the numbers on north-south streets have already reached 1600 crossing First Avenue). In fact, zero avenues are quite rare, the one near the U.S.-Canada border is one of very few examples.

A lot of smaller places have a few numbered streets or avenues and lots of named streets and avenues. Where I live there are First to Fourth Avenues, no numbered streets, and the address system bears no relation to the four numbered avenues, the main street here is an avenue corresponding to zero avenue but not called that, and numbers along the streets running through the grid of four avenues move up from 2000 to 2400 (all the streets in this town have extensions in a south end of town that is across a gulch so none of the streets are continuous). The numbering system acts as if they were continuous. So the lowest house numbers on streets in town are at the south end of town. It is quirky and no other place has a similar grid as far as I've observed. The avenue addresses seem to start around 1600 in the west end and run up to 3000 at the east end, possibly a decision based on anticipated but never realized urban expansion further west. Another thing about this town that is almost unique in North America is the existence of maintained city streets with no names at all, but the numbering system is attached to the streets nearby. I would imagine couriers having problems finding some of these addresses.

The numbered street system is also used in downtown Manhattan and a few other eastern cities, but is fairly rare east of the Mississippi. It is reversed in New York City, the avenues run north-south and the streets run east-west. Fifth Avenue for example runs north-south (NNE-SSW to be more precise).

M.T. Cranium

In Toronto, there are no numbered streets or avenues except in a few places that used to be smaller towns and were absorbed into greater Toronto, so there would be a few neighbourhoods with numbered streets. Unlike western Canada, in Toronto streets do not all run north-south and avenues do not all run east-west. They are scattered around at random. It seems that further north, an effort was made to name east-west roads Avenues, all of the prominent routes are avenues north of Bloor Street in midtown Toronto. But in downtown Toronto, streets cross streets, there are few avenues and those run north-south. One prominent north-south street is Avenue Road just to confuse matters. A grid system in older North American towns often breaks down into a more random European style grid, and the streets in those areas are often named Crescent or Drive or Way, indicating the numbering system will not conform to the larger regional grid.

I am not very familiar with Washington DC but I think the grid there is NW-SE and NE-SW oriented, and there is a system of avenues named after states running NW-SE (the White House is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue), and streets with letter names (A Street, B Street etc) run NE-SW.

Vancouver has groups of street names with themes. To the east of Cambie Street are streets named after Canadian provinces, then rivers and other geographical features in BC. To the west are about twenty streets named after tree species followed by a few named after historical figures of the colonial era. Without looking at a map you can tell what part of Vancouver a street address is going to be.

spacetweek

Meh, I prefer our system:

Each segment of road has a different name

Always names never numbers*

Passing through an intersection, sometimes the name changes, sometimes not

Building Numbering is based on buildings not distance

If a section of street never had buildings ( e.g. it was always a park) numbers skip that section. But if there used to be separate buildings there and now there is only 1 building, or they added a park later, those numbers are skipped.

Lol!

*A very rare exception is Cookstown Industrial Estate in Tallaght, which has First Avenue, Second Avenue etc.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123735013#Comment_123735013

There's also a First to Fourth Avenue setup off Seville Place in Dublin.

Evade

If you want to see a bonkers address system, try Japan. It starts off normal enough, although backwards compared to here, with country (usually omitted), then prefecture, city, and ward (district). All fine so far but then comes neighbourhood which is a weird irregular shape and finally building number which is usually, but not always, in order they were built. So the lowest number should be the oldest building. I'm not sure how anyone finds anything here without Google maps.

And then there are other oddities like Gakugei University and Gakugei University station being 24km apart, ask me how I found that out.

minggatu

Expansion of Farming in Western Eurasia, 9600-4000 BCE

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1muesic/expansion_of_farming_in_western_eurasia_96004000/

josip

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123735094#Comment_123735094

Map of how to get from Gakugei Train Station to Gakugei University on foot 🙂

While engaged in this pedantic and somewhat pointless exercise, Google did throw some light on the situation however, by highlighting a "Gakugei University Senior High School" adjacent to the train station. Perhaps this is where it got its name from?

Irish History

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123724730#Comment_123724730

It's interesting to me that you should mention the correct scale of maps. I was once told that years ago, maps hanging on school walls left over from British rule in the south had the size of Britain upscaled to make Britain look bigger than say France or Spain on the European Continent. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this?

josip

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123736430#Comment_123736430

Sounds like teachers of the day being aware of the effects of Mercator without having a proper understanding of it. Easier at the time to blame the British for it. But the British weren't the first to do this :)

JupiterKid

Estimated percentage of each European country's population killed in World War 2

Eastern European countries and Russia took very heavy losses in their populations compared to countries in the west.

JupiterKid

Minority languages spoken in France by percentage in each department, 2022

The French government does not officially recognise any of these languages/dialects apart from standard French.

SaxySaxSolo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123736347#Comment_123736347

https://ibb.co/jk9dctc7

Same for Dublin, Connolly Train station to Connolly Hospital

Evade

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123737968#Comment_123737968

They were both named after the same person so not quite the same.

JupiterKid

High resolution satellite image of Dubrovnik old town, Croatia