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    #1982
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    General Ireton was his son in Law - and if you imagine Cromwell was a bit of chunt - put it this way, his son in law was keen to impress his master.


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    #1983
    Brief_Lives
    Registered Users Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives


    i never heard of kings county or queens country..... but these maps just make me think of the british, again, as a total shower of cnuts...


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    #1984
    Oops!
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    You've never heard of them?? Where are you from?

    Let it go man..... All history now!


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    #1985
    Brief_Lives
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    Oops! wrote: »
    You've never heard of them?? Where are you from?

    Let it go man..... All history now!

    :D:D:D:D:D


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    #1986
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users Posts: 3,726 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Brief_Lives wrote: »
    i never heard of kings county or queens country..... but these maps just make me think of the british, again, as a total shower of cnuts...

    Kings County actually refers to Phillip of Spain. Great lad.


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    #1987
    IAMAMORON
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    Brief_Lives wrote: »
    i never heard of kings county or queens country..... but these maps just make me think of the british, again, as a total shower of cnuts...
    silliussoddius wrote: »
    Kings County actually refers to Phillip of Spain. Great lad.

    Those who don't understand their history are condemned to repeat it.


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    #1988
    [Deleted User]
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    Ipso wrote: »
    Looks like he never got through Barnes Gap in Donegal!

    Speaking of Ireland flipped around.
    these-maps-prove-that-westeros-is-based-on-the-br-2-32003-1469718089-14_dblbig.jpg

    Barnes Gap is in Tyrone


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    #1989
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users Posts: 3,726 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Barnes Gap is in Tyrone

    Did the gap move up past Lough Gola?


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    #1990
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,253 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Barnes Gap is in Tyrone
    Different Barnes Gap.

    Donegal https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/52241147#map=9/54.7314/-7.9396
    Tyrone https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4324845956#map=9/54.7499/-7.1447
    Pennsylvania https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/158439114#map=9/39.7437/-78.3556


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    #1991
    retalivity
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    Brief_Lives wrote: »
    i never heard of kings county or queens country..... but these maps just make me think of the british, again, as a total shower of cnuts...

    Don't look up Cobh or Dun Laoghaire then..


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    #1992
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users Posts: 5,467 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    Barna77 wrote: »
    Soviet Union, East Germany and Czechoslovakia.
    All gone


    Actually, the movement of Poland to the West provides a source of very interesting maps.

    This is especially true of East Prussia.
    This site has all manners of German maps, including the lost territories.



    Consider this map of part of East Prussia as an example, and compare with Google. Nordenburg was once a town of 3200 on a railway and main road, the population is now one quarter and there are no roads between Kaliningrad and Poland, where the road just peters out.



    538748.jpg


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    #1993
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Copy of military points of interest in the United Kingdom. I bags invade the nuclear submarine bases first, we could use some of those 40 year old Harrier Jets they sold us before. We beat them in Stuttgart, we can do it.

    article-2650518-1E8609FB00000578-134_634x758.jpg


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    #1994
    Dickie10
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    magnificent thread im robbing some of these for my soon to be online geography and history classes.


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    #1995
    Oops!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Oops!


    14 USAF bases!!


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    #1996
    Barna77
    Registered Users Posts: 3,271 ✭✭✭Barna77


    Charles Babbage wrote: »
    Actually, the movement of Poland to the West provides a source of very interesting maps.

    This is especially true of East Prussia.
    This site has all manners of German maps, including the lost territories.



    Consider this map of part of East Prussia as an example, and compare with Google. Nordenburg was once a town of 3200 on a railway and main road, the population is now one quarter and there are no roads between Kaliningrad and Poland, where the road just peters out.
    I've spent minutes and minutes comparing maps now :D

    EDIT
    Those East Germany maps of Berlin with "nothing" west of the wall and Lenin Ave


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    #1997
    IAMAMORON
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    Oops! wrote: »
    14 USAF bases!!

    It begs the question as to why they were using Shannon Airport as a stopover for the Middle East?

    Someone got their beak wet there I reckon.


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    #1998
    L1011
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    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    It begs the question as to why they were using Shannon Airport as a stopover for the Middle East?

    Someone got their beak wet there I reckon.

    Only one of them is active, Lakenheath; and it is used for stopovers quite a lot. Shannons runway is somewhat longer; it also has more services than an airbase for passenger flights.


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    #1999
    Victor
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    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    It begs the question as to why they were using Shannon Airport as a stopover for the Middle East?
    Cargo carrying capacity. Shannon is nearer the midpoint of the total trip, meaning they can carry less fuel and more cargo.


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    #2000
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,886 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    https://twitter.com/shanehegarty/status/1347293619271716866


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    #2001
    retalivity
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    FFS, on RTE???


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    #2002
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,886 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    On last night's news at nine


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    #2003
    lawred2
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    ah here

    that's pathetic


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    #2004
    BonnieSituation
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    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/shanehegarty/status/1347293619271716866

    What template do they even have that has a polygon of just FATDADD- (Fermanagh, Antrim, Tyrone, Down, Armagh, Derry and Donegal)?

    I have hundreds of datasets of both point and polygon, in both shapefile, geojson and MapInfo tables etc for use in QGIS, MapInfo and ArcGIS. I have have merged and demerged as many in my time.

    In fact my thesis was based on border addressing anomalies, so I've intimate knowledge of the weird intricacies of the datasets you have to be dealing with, from across multiple agencies in multiple projections at varying quality definitions, and I have never built nor come across a FATDADD one!

    It's truly astonishing.


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    #2005
    jhegarty
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    a map of poland post ww2. None of the countries bordering it exist today

    main-qimg-21f99868ac8252392ea539e8d6f54c6a
    Charles Babbage wrote: »
    These did not exist in 1945, they were the USSR and DDR.

    German didn't split into east/west until 1949. It was different occupied zones but one county until then.


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    #2006
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,154 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    jhegarty wrote: »
    German didn't split into east/west until 1949. It was different occupied zones but one county until then.

    i said after ww2. I didn't say specifically when :D


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    #2007
    cdeb
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    Well, apart from the big "1945" on the top of the map ;)


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    #2008
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,154 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    cdeb wrote: »
    Well, apart from the big "1945" on the top of the map ;)

    fair point.


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    #2009
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,154 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    though one could argue that the map is still correct even given the 1945 date. the state of german as it was in 1945 ceased to exist in 1949. It became 2 separate states. those states did merge together but the state of germany as it is exists now is a successor state to the germany that existed in 1945 but it is not the same state.


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    #2010
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users Posts: 5,467 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    jhegarty wrote: »
    German didn't split into east/west until 1949. It was different occupied zones but one county until then.


    Ah, if Germany existed, when exactly was the border moved to the Oder-Niesse, de Jure that is.


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    #2011
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,886 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Seems that BBC can be just as bad as RTE in terms of mapping their own country...

    https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson_MP/status/1348607508236144640


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