Interesting Maps

Capt'n Midnight

Sea levels.

https://i.imgur.com/yZSLP2s.jpeg

Capt'n Midnight

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Capt'n Midnight

geology

JupiterKid

Map of first count results of the 2025 Presidential election

Catherine Connolly, the President-elect, won a clear majority in all constituencies with the exception of Cavan-Monaghan which opted for local TD Heather Humphries.

Turnout was 45% of the electorate.

Capt'n Midnight

Rivers

minggatu

River basin map of Germany

https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/posts/watersheds/river-basin-map-of-germany

joujoujou

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New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123940992#Comment_123940992

Now do a map with the quality of water/access to clean water/ hand hygiene, just for comparison.

joujoujou

There's more that one on wikipedia - water scarcity it's called. Both physical and economical. :-P

Back to the maps:

yagan

I did the usual backpacker thing around SE asia decades ago but even then aside from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos the rest of the countries seemed to a combination of fork/spoon and/or chopsticks.

I certainly don't recall eating with hands being a thing in Thailand, it was fork and spoon all the way. Maybe in rural Thailand they might dab food with sticky rice like is common in Laos.

But I'll never forget the little plastic bags of deep fried spiders and bugs in Cambodia that people would munch on like popcorn.

minggatu

Writing systems used by neighboring countries around Turkey

"

A Crossroads of Scripts: Six Writing Systems Across Europe and Asia This map highlights one of the most linguistically diverse regions in the world, where six distinct writing systems coexist in close geographical proximity. Stretching from Southeastern Europe into Western and Central Asia, this area forms a true crossroads of scripts. "

rock22

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123941371#Comment_123941371

But is each of them not just a variation of the Phoenician script?

Quantum Erasure

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123941155#Comment_123941155

Back to the maps: internet use 2013

I'm guessing use has shot up in India at least over the last 12 years

minggatu

Popular tourist attractions and landmarks in France by region

https://www.reddit.com/r/Maps/comments/1eik1qm/oc_popular_tourist_attractions_and_landmarks_in/#lightbox

joujoujou

^^ Looks like France extended its borders a bit? ;-)

Gaspode

Info on that in the key

minggatu

The Underwater Cables That Connect the World

https://www.maps.com/submarine-cables-map-shows-global-internet-infrastructure/

minggatu

This Map Is Not Upside Down

"

Our conventions as map readers and makers have converged over time to a north-up default. What happens when that convention is challenged? "

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123944534#Comment_123944534

For a long time maps showed east as up.

marcbrophy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123944534#Comment_123944534

I kinda like this map, not for it's orientation, but because you can see more water.

The fact there's 70% of the surface is covered with it, but the Mercator projection makes it hard to visualise that!
It seems to hide a lot of the Pacific, imo.

minggatu

True size of Africa

JupiterKid

Bacon's street plan of Dublin and suburbs, 1929

JupiterKid

Dublin north city survey, 1918

Note the concentration of land use categorised as tenements (slums) in the north inner city.

JupiterKid

Topographic map of Devil's Tower national monument in northeast Wyoming, USA

Elevation is in feet

minggatu

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WiIz4/

minggatu

Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula, The Americas, Sebastian Münster, (1540)

https://www.reddit.com/r/oldmaps/comments/1of3nek/novae_insulae_xxvi_nova_tabula_the_americas/

Quazzie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123948484#Comment_123948484

According to a quick google search Antarctica was first seen in 1820, so how is it on that map from 1540?

Victor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123950239#Comment_123950239

It would seem that people knew of 'land' to the south before that.

"Although James Cook is believed to have reached some islands off the Antarctic coast in 1773, the actual continent wasn't reached until 1820."

1820: "January 1820: Antarctica is 'first sighted' by European explorers"

"Russian explorer Fabian von Bellingshausen reported sighting an "ice shore" on January 27 or 28, while British officer Edward Bransfield saw mountains on the mainland, the Antarctic Peninsula, on January 30."

"The controversy over whether it was Irishman, Edward Bransfield or the Russian Fabian von Bellingshausen, who first set eyes on the Antarctic mainland in 1820"

"Edward Bransfield—the Corkman who discovered Antarctica"

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123947651#Comment_123947651

UK feet (Queen Anne's) or US feet or US metric feet ( 1 inch=2.54cm) or US geographical survey feet ? (Defunct since 1/1/2023)

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123950299#Comment_123950299

It was assumed there would be land there. But they didn't think it would be so far south.