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Interesting Maps
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04-12-2019 1:32am#1I have had a huge interest in maps and geography since I was a very small child - I am generally fascinated with the way places and routes are related to each other in spatial terms, and I could pore over a good map for ages.
So here’s a little thread on maps that I find interesting and fascinating - some represent data, some physical features, others may display key routeways and connectivity and others again might show urbanisation and the growth patterns of cities.
Here’s one to start off....The number of army tanks per 10K population in Europe, by country. Feel free to post your own!
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Map showing all the river catchments in Ireland.
The Shannon catchment is in red (roughly in the Centre), that of the rivers Barrow, Nore and Suir are in pink, the Erne is in yellow and the Liffey and Boyle are in slightly different shades of pale green.
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JupiterKid wrote: »Map showing all the river catchments in Ireland.
The Shannon catchment is in red (roughly in the Centre), that of the rivers Barrow, Nore and Suir are in public no, the Erne is in yellow and the Liffey and Boyle are in slightly different shades of pale green.
What's the purple one that goes through Lough Neagh?0 -
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Pangaea (a supercontinent that existed roughly 335-175 million years ago) mapped with contemporary geopolitical borders.
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Feel free to join up to https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and https://www.openstreetmap.ie/JupiterKid wrote: »I have had a huge interest in maps and geography since I was a very small child - I am generally fascinated with the way places and routes are related to each other in spatial terms, and I could pore over a good map for ages.
Not army tanks, but this is a map of storage tanks in Ireland: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/OGu - May take 15-20 seconds to load. If nothing shows, press 'Run'. May not work on some devices.
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Geographic correlation between the location of the historic coal mining regions in England/Wales and Labour victories in the last UK general election.
Visualisation of the antipodes of each point on land.
Only 2% of the Aussie population live in the shaded area below
The growth of Walmart stores throughout the United States.
Countries that use Fahrenheit Vs those that use Celsius.
Supposedly the location of each car bomb detonated in Baghdad between 2003 and 2015.
Poster for an 80's horror film.
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I like the American Werewolf poster but where is the catchment area of the werewolf's ear when you compare to JupiterKid's river map?
Only slightly related, but I was wandering down my town via Streetview when I noticed that the Department of Defence building was blurred out. Fair enough, since it's a Department of Defence (not that any foreign powers would be bothered with it). Then I noticed another house that was blurred out, an old single-storey cottage in a back-street. Why would anyone bother with that? I presume the owner requested it.
Anyway, back to maps! Here's a map of the most common surnames in Europe by country:
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Pangaea (a supercontinent that existed roughly 335-175 million years ago) mapped with contemporary geopolitical borders.
(The original is here)
Ireland would be one of the best places to live on the planet if that were the continental arrangement today, sea to the west of us, land mass to the east and just the right distance from the equator to be warm all year round....stupid continental drift!!2 -
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Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »I like the American Werewolf poster but where is the catchment area of the werewolf's ear when you compare to JupiterKid's river map?
Only slightly related, but I was wandering down my town via Streetview when I noticed that the Department of Defence building was blurred out. Fair enough, since it's a Department of Defence (not that any foreign powers would be bothered with it). Then I noticed another house that was blurred out, an old single-storey cottage in a back-street. Why would anyone bother with that? I presume the owner requested it.
Anyway, back to maps! Here's a map of the most common surnames in Europe by country:
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JohnnyFlash wrote: »Regions of the world where life expectancy is above 80.
Whats with the Northern Territory in Australia ?
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I come across loads of visualisations like this through work research.
Map of Least and Most Peaceful Countries in the World
Source: Global Peace Index
Global Civilian Gun Ownership
Source:RGloucester/Wikimedia
European Average IQ by Country
Source: Jakub Marian/jakubmarian.com
Map of Europe During Medieval Times
wikipedia
World Map, 1595
Source: wikimedia
World Map, 1700
Wikimedia Commons
Cartoon Map of Europe, 1914
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/cartoon-map-of-europe-in-1914/
Map of Driving Orientation
red=right side; blue=left side
Source: wikipedia
Map of European Hand-Washing Routines
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Breast Sizes Relating to Countries
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...and for gender balance...
The Penis Size Worldwide
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What really blew my mind was when I found out that the sizes of countries we see on standard maps of the world are very much distorted!
As the world is spherical we cannot truly represent it on a 2D map without some distortion. The standard map you will see uses the Mercator projection (one of many different types of projections). This distorts the map so that countries along the equator are shown a lot smaller in comparison to those nearer the poles which are exaggerated in size.
An excellent site that allows you to compare countries sizes to each other to get a more true representation is https://thetruesize.com/
Here is an example:
As you can see that when DRC is moved up to Europe and Greenland's position on the map, its size greatly increases.
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JohnnyFlash wrote: »If your cock and balls are shaped like that then I’d suggest you visit a doctor.
The €1 coin has a much better “depiction”, if you ask me, J. Takes Norway out of the equation.
“It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis
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Or there's the dwindling train services down through the years (1925-1975) in this gif. (Sorry it's a bit big. The other version was too small.)ednwireland wrote: »irish railways 1906
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So if The Baltics merged with Finland and threw Romania into the mix should their anthem start
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I have some more....(!) Btw I'm a big visual data nerd, I especially love infographics and visually striking, yet informative figure.
I know this thread is specifically aimed at maps, however, if anyone is interested I highly recommend the Information is beautiful website
Anyways, back to maps
World map of billionaires 2018
Where tourists spend the most money
Map of Hazardous waste by country
Most popular messaging app in every country
Map of the wealthiest nations
Map of the most corrupt nations
Map of happiness
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