Interesting Maps

.. from Eurofound

Korea by night

From a mental health point of view, sitting in traffic for hours every day can't be good for you either (says yer man with a 7 minute cycle to work). And the more northerly countries would be more likely to have worse driving conditions on their commute. I still prefer going to the office, though.

And for the sake of having a map, here's a work-related one, although not very up to date.

@JupiterKid "Note the separate townships for Drumcondra, Clontarf, Pembroke, Kilmainham and Rathmines - all of which were incorporated into Dublin city borough in 1930." - Drumcondra, Clontarf and Kilmainham failed early on and were incorporated into the city. Only Pembroke and Rathmines lasted until 1930. Meanwhile, Blackrock, Kingstown, Dalkey and Killiney were merged into Dun Laoghaire Borough.

Here’s a link to a bathymetrical survey of Loch Ness undertaken in 1903;

https://maps.nls.uk/view/74400568

https://maps.nls.uk/view/74400565

think the claim that it contains more water than all the lakes, canals, reservoirs and rivers in all of uk is a total exaggeration / false. Lakes and canals maybe but not all rivers also….!

Rivers hold very little water, negligible amounts in the grand scheme.
Most of the worlds lake are very shallow which means the ones with depth hold a disproportionately large volume by surface area.
Loch Ness is quite deep in terms of UK lakes, it also has a relatively large surface area, so volumes are much larger than they appear on a simple map.
An extreme example is Lake Baikal, it’s the 6th largest lake by surface area but it holds 20-25% of the worlds unfrozen freshwater. More than all the Great Lakes combined.

And Lake Baikal is still getting wider and deeper . It’s on an active rift which is getting deeper by about an inch per year

These from Patrick Abercrombie (1922), Dublin of the Future. It was a plan to redesign Dublin to both cope with anticipated expansion and to make it more reflective of the ideals of the newly independent state. It won a competition towards that end, and the whole plan is one of the most remarkable books in Irish architectural and planning history.

The most obvious change he purposes here is to move the center of the city to Capel Street, and the idea was that this would be transformed into a very wide boulevard with large monumental buildings at either end, with the city's tram system radiating outwards from there. He also proposed new developments at Crumlin and Marino, and the creation of a radial traffic system with a serious of large spokes emanating from the center of the city outwards.

It's a really amazing book. It's heavily influenced by the transformation of Paris by Haussmann in the 19th century. While the Wide Streets Commission in Dublin had carried out some limited improvements to the city, the general idea of a more general recreation of the streetscape along rational lines with widened boulevard and monumental buildings was very much in fashion at this time.

Abercrombies plan, though, was originally conceived BEFORE the Rising, War of Independence, and Civil War, and he made some adjustments to it in the aftermath. Most notably, he describes the destruction of the city in this period both in terms of the kind of evil that results from a lack of rational planning, and as an opportunity, where areas of the city were now a tabula rasa to create that more rational city (and also to occupy its workers in doing something positive).

Abercrombie was a fan of Green Belts. One of his ideas, a linear park along the Dodder has been more or less implemented, but not to the extent that he had planned.

What are you talking about?

The map is a map of the Great Northern Railway in England, extending from London to Liverpool and York. What countries (sic) are you talking about?

Better version of map.

That was the one in the original link . Why maps don’t show on my iPhone posts but do on android. I’ll find what I’m doing wrong . Cheers

What's the reason for the blue (>100) in the Rail Map? Is it grain?

And does it all go to Kansas or somewhere else? But what happens when it gets there? Even if that product was processed, wouldn't it show up on some other map (eg road) by weight? I thought that the routes with the greatest tonnage would terminate at the coast/great lakes/Mississippi.

Apologies for all the questions, I drove across the Great Plains years ago and I've been curious about the area since.

Blue is "inland waterway" mainly the Mississippi River

Strange How ? The three primary colours (Red, Greeen, & Blue) and Yellow, which is a good contrast with the others.

It is definitely orange.