Interesting Maps

Das Reich

Map of Italian regions by number of non Italian tourists. They are clever to keep the best regions like Puglia, Sardinia, Liguria, Abruzzo and Calabria for themselves.

igCorcaigh

https://twitter.com/posephoto/status/1301792462265090048?s=19

Ted_YNWA

Cartoon Map of Europe, 1914

Quantum Erasure

Most of this is protests, but there's a fair amount of other incidents too



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IAMAMORON

I would love to know what all the beef is about in Alaska.

" Battles " holy phuckeroonies

Gregor Samsa

IAMAMORON wrote: »

I would love to know what all the beef is about in Alaska.

" Battles " holy phuckeroonies

There’s a few protests against police brutality going in up there, but Anchorage also has one against housing homeless people in an ice hockey arena. Oh, and another one protesting against a law that banned homosexual “conversion therapy”.

Just surprised there isn’t more bear protests up there.

KevRossi

Map showing the shortest distance from every townland in Ireland to Dublin (O'Connell Bridge). Some body of work, not sure if it's auto generated, or done piece by piece.

Reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ilsoyk/every_road_to_dublin_ireland_oc/g3u5j37/

https://i.imgur.com/SxLh5tH.png

Ted_YNWA

Or the fastest way to get out of there

cnocbui

Makes me appreciate even more, having a car that corners well.

Victor

KevRossi wrote: »

Map showing the shortest distance from every townland in Ireland to Dublin (O'Connell Bridge). Some body of work, not sure if it's auto generated, or done piece by piece.

Reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ilsoyk/every_road_to_dublin_ireland_oc/g3u5j37/

https://i.imgur.com/SxLh5tH.png

https://i.imgur.com/SxLh5tH.png

Based on the M17 and M40, it is at least partially based on speed limits. While www.openstreetmap.org has speed limits for most main roads, it won't have them for many minor roads.

The processing was done by GraphHopper and other software: https://medium.com/@tjukanov/animated-routes-with-qgis-9377c1f16021

Charles Babbage

KevRossi wrote: »

Map showing the shortest distance from every townland in Ireland to Dublin (O'Connell Bridge). Some body of work, not sure if it's auto generated, or done piece by piece.

While most flows are logical along main routes, there is a rather strange flow ending in South Armagh between the N1 and N2. A data error perhaps?
Perhaps it is distorted by all NI roads having a 60Mph speed limit although you would be unwise to approach that speed on many of them.

Charles Babbage

Height in Europe and basketball wins

Capt'n Midnight

Victor wrote: »

Based on the M17 and M40, it is at least partially based on speed limits. While www.openstreetmap.org has speed limits for most main roads, it won't have them for many minor roads.

But all minor roads are 80Kph :cool:

gerrybbadd

Another interesting map

SixtaWalthers

See the states of peace map

1huge1

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Another interesting map

Theres so much going on in that, but two things jump out at me.

All the Baltic States trying their best to hold back the advance of Russia while Finland is just having a few beers and using Russia to rest its arm on? :D

As for Ireland, old tiger needs work? thought we were at full employment (pre covid).

Really interesting map

Victor

1huge1 wrote: »

As for Ireland, old tiger needs work? thought we were at full employment (pre covid).

2016 map.

KevRossi

Melbourne is nearer to Antarctica than it is to Darwin.

KevRossi

Swivel Norway on it's southernmost point and the top will reach Barcelona or Rome.

peasant

KevRossi wrote: »

Map showing the shortest distance from every townland in Ireland to Dublin (O'Connell Bridge).

Very interesting details on this map.

In the circle is the area just outside Sligo where neighbours divide between driving through the North or the Republic to get to Dublin

IAMAMORON

Look at that map of Australasia, New Zealand really is in the middle of nowhere. I reckon that's where they are all hiding away, how could you know? Look where Dunedin is. I would say you could do you want down there if you had half a clue.



I reckon there are clowns there that have never even been to the other island yet, it just seems like that type of place really.

Water John

Actually New Zealanders do move around quite a bit. They have no problem hopping in the car and driving 5/6 hours. The two ferries between the two islands do massive business. Maybe the poor in each city don't move that much. But every family has an old car and in NZ they are old.

IAMAMORON

Water John wrote: »

Actually New Zealanders do move around quite a bit. They have no problem hopping in the car and driving 5/6 hours. The two ferries between the two islands do massive business. Maybe the poor in each city don't move that much. But every family has an old car and in NZ they are old.

i would love to read about ancient north south rivalries, I mean ancient ones now, not just the Scottish plantation stuff.



Seems peculiar that there is more tribal activity on the north island as opposed the south island?

Water John

Don't know the back history but the south would fairly mountainous and difficult to travel over. The earliest inhabitation of NZ they believe was around 1250 AD.

astrofool

KevRossi wrote: »

Swivel Norway on it's southernmost point and the top will reach Barcelona or Rome.

Billy Connolly said it was Morocco!

https://vimeo.com/24340940

josip

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Seems peculiar that there is more tribal activity on the north island as opposed the south island?

They're fairly different climates.
I don't have any facts , but just from living there, and driving from Cape Reinga to Bluff, once you go south of Picton it just gets colder and more upland.
On the West coast it's incredibly wet and the midges would eat ya.
The bottom of the South is bleak and depressing.
One of the dourest people I ever met was from Invercargill.

ohnonotgmail

Water John wrote: »

Don't know the back history but the south would fairly mountainous and difficult to travel over. The earliest inhabitation of NZ they believe was around 1250 AD.

the migration to the south island is much later. Late 17th century or thereabouts.

Water John

The top of the South Island is very pleasant and sheltered, moreso than Wellington, (the windiest capital in the world). This is where the fruit and wines comes from. As Josip says gets fairly unforgiving south of that.

IAMAMORON

josip wrote: »

One of the dourest people I ever met was from Invercargill.

Street plan of alleged most dourest corner of New Zealand.



Thanks for the heads up btw, always good to know what to take off the bucket list.

Be some craic if they had a secret monster living in a lake nearby.

Capt'n Midnight