Interesting Maps

Charles Babbage · 08-09-2020 1:31pm

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 · 08-09-2020 1:32pm

Height in Europe and basketball wins

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Capt'n Midnight · 08-09-2020 9:00pm

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 · 09-09-2020 8:38am

Another interesting map

SixtaWalthers · 10-09-2020 10:09am

See the states of peace map

1huge1 · 10-09-2020 11:31am

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 · 10-09-2020 11:48am

1huge1 wrote: »

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

2016 map.

KevRossi · 12-09-2020 12:09am

Melbourne is nearer to Antarctica than it is to Darwin.

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KevRossi · 12-09-2020 9:29am

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

peasant · 12-09-2020 10:23am

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 · 12-09-2020 12:16pm

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 · 12-09-2020 2:33pm

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 · 12-09-2020 4:36pm

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.

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

Water John · 12-09-2020 8:00pm

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 · 12-09-2020 8:15pm

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 · 12-09-2020 8:15pm

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 · 12-09-2020 8:18pm

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 · 12-09-2020 8:22pm

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 · 12-09-2020 8:28pm

josip wrote: »

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

Street plan of alleged most dourest corner of New Zealand.

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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 · 12-09-2020 9:01pm

Hego Damask · 12-09-2020 9:20pm

astrofool wrote: »

Billy Connolly said it was Morocco!

https://vimeo.com/24340940

Beat me to it !!

-- edit , actually if you naively do the distance on a 2d map it does go to Morocco, didn't take the polar stretch they do for 2d maps into account...

Hego Damask · 12-09-2020 9:59pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I love comparisons like this, I always thought Sydney was similar to Barcelona in proximity to equator wise ... Sydney is far closer, would be close to mid sahara in the northern hemisphere.

Water John · 12-09-2020 10:31pm

It really shows up the notion often told to farmers that farming in NZ is similar to here.
Now it has a more temperate climate than Continental Europe, but I was in NZ for the month of April last year, which is comparable with our October. We were wearing sun cream and it was between 18/21C every day.

cnocbui · 13-09-2020 10:23am

Ireland is at the same latitude as the southern end of Hudson bay in Canada - about where Polar Bear Provincial Park is. If the Gulf Stream ever shuts down...

Capt'n Midnight · 13-09-2020 11:10am

cnocbui wrote: »

If the Gulf Stream ever shuts down...

We will still be on the East side of an Ocean.

IAMAMORON · 13-09-2020 11:56am

Water John wrote: »

It really shows up the notion often told to farmers that farming in NZ is similar to here.
Now it has a more temperate climate than Continental Europe, but I was in NZ for the month of April last year, which is comparable with our October. We were wearing sun cream and it was between 18/21C every day.

if it gets too warm they can always head down to Invercargill.

" I wish I was in Innnn Ver Car Gill " , sung to the tune of "Carrickfergus"

Water John · 13-09-2020 2:17pm

Think there is an air monitoring base station there as there is no other land/pollution at that latitude around the world.

cnocbui · 13-09-2020 5:44pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

We will still be on the East side of an Ocean.

Hair splitting?

The problem lies with the ocean current known as the Gulf Stream, which bathes the UK and north-west Europe in warm water carried northwards from the Caribbean. It is the Gulf Stream, and associated currents, that allow strawberries to thrive along the Norwegian coast, while at comparable latitudes in Greenland glaciers wind their way right down to sea level. The same currents permit palms to flourish in Cornwall and the Hebrides, whereas across the ocean in Labrador, even temperate vegetation struggles to survive. Without the Gulf Stream, temperatures in the UK and north-west Europe would be five degrees centigrade or so cooler, with bitter winters at least as fierce as those of the so-called Little Ice Age in the 17th to 19th centuries.

Lirange · 14-09-2020 1:41pm

cnocbui wrote: »

If the Gulf Stream ever shuts down...

We’d basically be Iceland sans the volcanoes.

topper75 · 14-09-2020 2:15pm

The engine that drives the gulf stream is the sun beating down on the gulf of Mexico coupled with the earth rotating. If that ever shut down, I would think it was Goodnight Irene anyway.

Water John · 14-09-2020 9:40pm

The sun is also generating 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic ATM.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php

KevRossi · 14-09-2020 9:57pm

A map showing the current extent of fires in the US, imposed on Ireland.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-interactive/2019/dec/07/how-big-are-the-fires-burning-on-the-east-coast-of-australia-interactive-map?lat=53.097322593577&lng=-7.451477050781251

topper75 · 14-09-2020 10:00pm

It is the sun indeed - fair play to it. I don't know if there ever was a year without hurricanes forming out there. But I suppose there were never huge amounts of humans living on the coasts they slam into until now. And certainly not the 24-hour news bulletins showing us the menacing satellite shots. That part is all new.

Water John · 14-09-2020 10:03pm

It's only the second time 5 hurricanes at the same time has been recorded.

OldGoat · 16-09-2020 7:13am

topper75 wrote: »

The engine that drives the gulf stream is the sun beating down on the gulf of Mexico coupled with the earth rotating. If that ever shut down, I would think it was Goodnight Irene anyway.

Ocean currents are also driven by a thermohaline (temp and salinity) process. It's one of the big worries with global warming that the release of fresh water at the polar ice caps will dilute the sea water, reducing it's saltiness in the northern regions and thus causing the gulf stream to invert it's direction.
Cheery thought.

topper75 · 16-09-2020 10:20pm

Followed by immediate self-correction though, right? As in the absence of the warming current leading to colder northern seas and reversal of any winter ice-melting process?

Capt'n Midnight · 16-09-2020 11:01pm

topper75 wrote: »

Followed by immediate self-correction though, right? As in the absence of the warming current leading to colder northern seas and reversal of any winter ice-melting process?

More fresh water means Arctic freezes over. Diverting water south was a Soviet era plan to green the deserts and fill the inland seas and make the Arctic saltier and so easier to navigate.

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302888269_The_Siberian_Water_Transfer_Scheme

endacl · 16-09-2020 11:07pm

Water John wrote: »

It's only the second time 5 hurricanes at the same time has been recorded.

:eek::eek::eek:The neutrinos have mutated!!!! :eek::eek::eek:

cnocbui · 17-09-2020 11:59am

topper75 wrote: »

Followed by immediate self-correction though, right? As in the absence of the warming current leading to colder northern seas and reversal of any winter ice-melting process?

Well yes, if you can call a plunge of 8° C lasting over a hundred years a 'correction', which is what happened 8,000 years ago: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13013-ancient-flood-brought-gulf-stream-to-a-halt/#

Modern ice ages are accompanied by a shut down in the Gulf Stream/Atlantic conveyor/THC. That circulation system has been slowing and is currently 15% weaker than it was in the middle of the last century.

topper75 · 17-09-2020 1:12pm

cnocbui wrote: »

Well yes, if you can call a plunge of 8° C lasting over a hundred years a 'correction', which is what happened 8,000 years ago: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13013-ancient-flood-brought-gulf-stream-to-a-halt/#

Modern ice ages are accompanied by a shut down in the Gulf Stream/Atlantic conveyor/THC. That circulation system has been slowing and is currently 15% weaker than it was in the middle of the last century.

But wouldn't such a plunge be mitigated by global warming today with all the CO2 being released by man?
I mean water won't suddenly lose the ability to be heated by warmer air. You put water in a greenhouse, it gets warm fast.

Every way you look at it - it self-corrects.

Padraig Mor · 17-09-2020 3:05pm

Came across this yesterday - hopefully not posted previously. Major Roman roads in a Tube style map.

Larger original:
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iamstop · 17-09-2020 4:53pm

cnocbui wrote: »

Ireland is at the same latitude as the southern end of Hudson bay in Canada - about where Polar Bear Provincial Park is. If the Gulf Stream ever shuts down...

I live in Winnipeg right now. We're 49.80 degrees north. Dublin is 53.34. Here in Winnipeg -40C in winter is not uncommon. Add wind chill to that and it's easily below -50.

Layers are your only friend in those temps.

nc6000 · 17-09-2020 6:23pm

I like that Roman map, interesting that they never came to Ireland.

ohnonotgmail · 17-09-2020 6:46pm

nc6000 wrote: »

I like that Roman map, interesting that they never came to Ireland.

they realised that the people were getting more scary the further west they went so decided to stop at Wales.

cnocbui · 17-09-2020 6:51pm

nc6000 wrote: »

I like that Roman map, interesting that they never came to Ireland.

They were probably told the weather is like that place north of Hadrian's wall, but the inhabitant's aren't as chilled, and so they said quod irrumabo!

Capt'n Midnight · 17-09-2020 7:41pm

nc6000 wrote: »

I like that Roman map, interesting that they never came to Ireland.

Maybe they did up near Rush

Hibernia, the Land of Winter.

chooseusername · 17-09-2020 7:48pm

nc6000 wrote: »

I like that Roman map, interesting that they never came to Ireland.

Veni, vidi, non vis

KevRossi · 17-09-2020 8:06pm

Some maps about China

1. The westernmost point of China is nearer to Germany than it is to the easternmost point of China. That's how big the place is.

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2. Not all Chinese live in the same place... this map shows the population distribution of the country.

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3. Many of them live in the Pearl River Delta MegaCity, about 135,000,000. For reference the distance from Zhaoqing on the left, to Hong Kong on the right is about the same as Galway to Dublin.

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4. They don't all understand each other, a map of languages of China, many of these are incomprehensible to each other.

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5. This map shows the recommended route from China to New York or Rotterdam by sea. Avoids piracy, PITA customs and coast guards and lengthy queues and charges at the Suez and Panama canals. Due to climate change this route is navigable more months of the year than ever before.

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silverharp · 18-09-2020 11:39am

its oversized so didnt imbed, not sure who its measured but interesting, some kind of measure of status or popularity of degrees in each country in europe

https://i.redd.it/qq0icdj93ozz.png

ohnonotgmail · 18-09-2020 11:46am

silverharp wrote: »

its oversized so didnt imbed, not sure who its measured but interesting, some kind of measure of status or popularity of degrees in each country in europe

https://i.redd.it/qq0icdj93ozz.png

is it not showing the degree that each countries leader has? Or had as it shows medicine for Varadkar

Interesting Maps

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