Interesting Maps

chosen1

Brian? wrote: »

Can you navigate the Royal canal in to the Royal Canal basin? I thought some parts around Cabra were filled in.

I cycled much of the Royal Canal a couple of years ago and it wasn't navigatable at all in my opinion. This was September after a fairly dry summer and there was very little water in it in many parts. They were pumping water from rivers into it in places.

Might be different now or during winter when there's plenty of rain.

retalivity

Brian? wrote: »

Can you navigate the Royal canal in to the Royal Canal basin? I thought some parts around Cabra were filled in.

There's none filled in afaik, but you never see any boats on it within Dublin city, compared to the grand canal. Maybe the locks are locked or something

Capt'n Midnight

one suggested border alignment

The commission considered Newry's port revenues, coal supply infrastructure, and decided the town was too important to Northern Ireland's linen industry to transfer south.

"This was the archetypal case study of economic and geographic conditions overriding the wishes of the inhabitants,"

magicbastarder

i had never noticed before that google maps doesn't show county borders in northern ireland. it does for the rest of the island.

chosen1

magicbastarder wrote: »

i had never noticed before that google maps doesn't show county borders in northern ireland. it does for the rest of the island.

They are only ceremonial up there nowadays and have no official use since the 70s.

They were replaced by councils centred around the bigger towns and Fermanagh Council was the only one to be left in it's traditional entirety. Even that is gone now since they streamlined them again into larger "super councils" and parts of Tyrone were emalgamated with it.

Only real place they use the traditional 6 counties is for GAA purposes these days so that's why you won't see them on official maps.

The J Stands for Jay

chosen1 wrote: »

Also half of the towns of Athlone and Ballinasloe are in Co. Roscommon in that map.

They changed county boundaries when urban district councils were established in the 1890s and parts of towns were transferred to the county of the bigger part of the town.

Similar thing happened with parts of Drogheda previously in Meath and are other examples around Ireland too.

A friend of mine has his postal address as Drogheda, Co Meath.

chosen1

McGaggs wrote: »

A friend of mine has his postal address as Drogheda, Co Meath.

There are newer estates to the south of Drogheda who are in Co. Meath today, outside of the 1890s border.

However previous to that, the Boyne was the county boundary so there were several town centre streets that would have been in Meath also.

Victor

Brian? wrote: »

Can you navigate the Royal canal in to the Royal Canal basin? I thought some parts around Cabra were filled in.

You can navigate all the way from the Shannon to the Liffey.

However, the lifting bridge at Newcomen Bridge is only open to canal traffic on a few days per year. https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=03bddaa8-56f5-498c-bfc2-a1f688ca0c8f&cp=53.356415~-6.243403&lvl=21&dir=90&style=g&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027

The original line to Broadstone, except for Blessington Street Basin, was filled in and is now a park. https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=a58dfe81-7c51-4a34-8907-0c765348347b&cp=53.357573~-6.271755&lvl=18&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027

josip

Brian? wrote: »

All of the Dutch people I know say Holland when speaking English, that was my point. I don't have conversations in Dutch.

Is that the same as people who translate the names of their cities into English if speaking to an Anglophone?
eg. Swedish who would use Gothenberg instead of Goteborg.

blackwhite

Brian? wrote: »

Can you navigate the Royal canal in to the Royal Canal basin? I thought some parts around Cabra were filled in.

A spur that went down towards Broadstone was filled in. Still very visible on google maps as a green strip running from behind Mountjoy Prison down to Broadstone.
Blessington St Basin is the only undrained part of that spur remaining.

Royal Canal Bank is the street that runs most of the length of it

Brian?

Victor wrote: »

You can navigate all the way from the Shannon to the Liffey.

However, the lifting bridge at Newcomen Bridge is only open to canal traffic on a few days per year. https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=03bddaa8-56f5-498c-bfc2-a1f688ca0c8f&cp=53.356415~-6.243403&lvl=21&dir=90&style=g&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027

The original line to Broadstone, except for Blessington Street Basin, was filled in and is now a park. https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=a58dfe81-7c51-4a34-8907-0c765348347b&cp=53.357573~-6.271755&lvl=18&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027

I've done the Shannon a couple of times and the Shannon-Erne once. Parts of the Grand Canal and parts of the Barrow.

A dream of mine is to sail up the Grand Canal and back the Royal Canal. Or vice versa.

ohnonotgmail

McGaggs wrote: »

A friend of mine has his postal address as Drogheda, Co Meath.

my sister lives in drogheda and her address is co. meath.

Stovepipe

Brian? wrote: »

I've done the Shannon a couple of times and the Shannon-Erne once. Parts of the Grand Canal and parts of the Barrow.

A dream of mine is to sail up the Grand Canal and back the Royal Canal. Or vice versa.

A lot of the locks in the Dublin area are not usable by deliberate or accidental neglect. Compared to the locks further out, they are effectively not included in the system and passage is not encouraged.

Zebra3

chosen1 wrote: »

They are only ceremonial up there nowadays and have no official use since the 70s.

They were replaced by councils centred around the bigger towns and Fermanagh Council was the only one to be left in it's traditional entirety. Even that is gone now since they streamlined them again into larger "super councils" and parts of Tyrone were emalgamated with it.

Only real place they use the traditional 6 counties is for GAA purposes these days so that's why you won't see them on official maps.

Same with Co. Dublin. Doesn't exist any more in the state.

KevRossi

Brian? wrote: »

Can you navigate the Royal canal in to the Royal Canal basin? I thought some parts around Cabra were filled in.

You can not only navigate it, you can also do the whole thing on Google Street View! They sent a boat along it a couple of years ago with a camera on it.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3623125,-6.262984,3a,75y,105.08h,87.94t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1so0DinJCjd5OHSllFmYj6gA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Do0DinJCjd5OHSllFmYj6gA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D194.11588%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.5824533,-7.7060443,3a,75y,69.03h,82.51t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sg7QI9_s8QZz_ExnOLeQ4_Q!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dg7QI9_s8QZz_ExnOLeQ4_Q%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D341.3981%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

Hurrache

Every recorded battle in history apparently based on those referenced in Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK5OsDWYJmQ

https://twitter.com/SonerCagaptay/status/1389387850551005192

josip

First of hundreds of questions.
What happened in Perth/Freemantle apart from a prison riot?

ohnonotgmail

2nd of hundreds of questions: are we really expected to believe there were so few battles recorded in china and india?

That battle map is excellent, very interesting to see the different countries taking over.....

Brief_Lives

wow... that youtube vid is unreal....
the coments underneath are hilarious too....

"every country in Europe: War War War !!!!!!
Switzerland: Ah tea time, right"

"1790’s to 1810’s:
Napoleon: allow me to introduce myself"

Brief_Lives

josip wrote: »

First of hundreds of questions.
What happened in Perth/Freemantle apart from a prison riot?

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

mentioned in the comments underneath...

Capt'n Midnight

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

2nd of hundreds of questions: are we really expected to believe there were so few battles recorded in china and india?

Wikipedia is very US centric. Every incident in War of Independence and action during Korean war would rate as highly as Stalingrad or Kursk.

Professor Moriarty

Brief_Lives wrote: »

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

mentioned in the comments underneath...

Wonder what kind of weapons the emus used.

ohnonotgmail

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Wonder what kind of weapons the emus used.

they only had their cunning and wit which is why they won. The aussies were no match for them.

ohnonotgmail

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

they only had their cunning and wit which is why they won. The aussies were no match for them.

If the EMU were willing to stoop to use their cunning and wit against them you can see how the aussies were going to fail. Their Vietnam.

ohnonotgmail

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Wikipedia is very US centric. Every incident in War of Independence and action during Korean war would rate as highly as Stalingrad or Kursk.

while using wikipedia as a source is problematic they didn't even do that right. There are 2 dots in New Zealand when there were at least 8 separate wars between the british and the maori over a period of more than 25 years. the map is nonsense and the guy who tweeted it teaches history. He should be embarrassed.

ohnonotgmail

Deleted User wrote: »

If the EMU were willing to stoop to use their cunning and wit against them you can see how the aussies were going to fail. Their Vietnam.

the aussies struggled against amphibians, they had no chance against mammals.

Professor Moriarty

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

the aussies struggled against amphibians, they had no chance against mammals.

Actually, if they put a couple of emus out on the wings they might do a lot better against the All Blacks.

ohnonotgmail

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Actually, if they put a couple of emus out on the wings they might do a lot better against the All Blacks.

Ouch.

Professor Moriarty

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Ouch.

The truth always hurts.