Interesting Maps

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



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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.

Or the fastest way to get out of there

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

Height in Europe and basketball wins

Another interesting map

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

Melbourne is nearer to Antarctica than it is to Darwin.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.