Interesting Maps

peasant · 26-09-2020 1:18pm

The different ways to say "Dienstag" (Tuesday) among native dialect speakers in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

probably a niche kind of interest

...but here's the link to the original site, with listening examples and many more words and examples.
https://escience-center.uni-tuebingen.de/escience/sprachatlas/3-17_dienstag.html#8/48.674/8.989

ohnonotgmail · 26-09-2020 7:34pm

peasant wrote: »

The different ways to say "Dienstag" (Tuesday) among native dialect speakers in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

probably a niche kind of interest ...but here's the link to the original site, with listening examples and many more words and examples.
https://escience-center.uni-tuebingen.de/escience/sprachatlas/3-17_dienstag.html#8/48.674/8.989

I love that one of the variants is "after monday"

KevRossi · 27-09-2020 1:11am

For a bit of perspective Baden Wurttemberg is about the size of Leinster and Connacht combined and has about 11 million people.

Capt'n Midnight · 27-09-2020 10:52pm

Map of EEA member states and cooperating countries 2020 :

Professor Moriarty · 28-09-2020 9:15am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Map of EEA member states and cooperating countries 2020 :

Just because I'm a pedant. Turkey is not in the EEA.

cdeb · 28-09-2020 9:17am

And technically the UK is part of it for the moment - certainly at 1st Feb 2020. It's transitioning out at the moment.

It had a different (unique) status to other countries, but then so does Switzerland and Croatia.

ohnonotgmail · 28-09-2020 9:18am

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Just because I'm a pedant. Turkey is not in the EEA.

neither is switzerland

Professor Moriarty · 28-09-2020 9:29am

Given that Switzerland has deep agreements with the EU and Turkey has a customs union with the EU, the symbolism of the map remains intact.

ohnonotgmail · 28-09-2020 9:35am

cdeb wrote: »

And technically the UK is part of it for the moment - certainly at 1st Feb 2020. It's transitioning out at the moment.

It had a different (unique) status to other countries, but then so does Switzerland and Croatia.

Britain has already left the EU. It is following the same rules as before during the transition period but it has already left.

Croatia as been an EU member since 2013 so is part of the EEA

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Given that Switzerland has deep agreements with the EU and Turkey has a customs union with the EU, the symbolism of the map remains intact.

sure, but they are not members of the EEA.

Professor Moriarty · 28-09-2020 9:42am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Britain has already left the EU. It is following the same rules as before during the transition period but it has already left.

Croatia as been an EU member since 2013 so is part of the EEA

sure, but they are not members of the EEA.

No, but the spirit of the map remains. It's a stark picture if you are a British Chancellor of the Exchequer. Or one that gives a crap.

Shedite27 · 28-09-2020 9:49am

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Just because I'm a pedant. Turkey is not in the EEA.

The map is of EEA but you're point stands. Switzerland too wasn't a member of EEA

ohnonotgmail · 28-09-2020 9:50am

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

No, but the spirit of the map remains. It's a stark picture if you are a British Chancellor of the Exchequer. Or one that gives a crap.

wrong is wrong.

emanresu · 28-09-2020 10:27am

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Just because I'm a pedant. Turkey is not in the EEA.

This is a map of the European Environment Agency members.
I also thought it was an incorrect map of the European Economic Area at first until I searched for the original source. https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/eea-member-countries-coverage

ohnonotgmail · 28-09-2020 10:31am

emanresu wrote: »

This is a map of the European Environment Agency members.
I also thought it was an incorrect map of the European Economic Area at first until I searched for the original source. https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/eea-member-countries-coverage

hard to know what to believe. The EU think they are not members of the EEA

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/169/the-european-economic-area-eea-switzerland-and-the-north

Switzerland is a member of EFTA but does not take part in the EEA.

IAMAMORON · 28-09-2020 10:48am

Switzerland have not officially joined the EEA, They signed an agreement to but have not joined it yet. They held a referendum in 1992 and the Swiss electorate rejected it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Swiss_referendums. I find Swiss democracy fascinating.

Swiss European Economic Area referendum of 1992 results by Cantons
Yes-votes
No-votes

Swiss_EEA_membership_referendum_results_by_canton%2C_1992.png

Swiss_EEA_membership_referendum_results_by_canton%2C_1992.png

Despite all this, all the real money in the EU is essentially fed through either Switzerland or Liechtenstein. Money likes money and from either country it gets to go everywhere. They own it.

Shedite27 · 28-09-2020 11:11am

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Switzerland have not officially joined the EEA, They signed an agreement to but have not joined it yet. They held a referendum in 1992 and the Swiss electorate rejected it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Swiss_referendums. I find Swiss democracy fascinating.

Swiss European Economic Area referendum of 1992 results by Cantons
Yes-votes
No-votes

Only in the map thread can you put together an argument in map form

IAMAMORON · 28-09-2020 11:16am

Shedite27 wrote: »

Only in the map thread can you put together an argument in map form

The French - German/Italian divide is ominous in this one. Plainly obvious that whilst Geneva wanted in both Zurich and Lugano did not.

As I said, Swiss politics is very intriguing and well worth a look into. It is almost tribal in nature.

mikhail · 28-09-2020 1:29pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

As I said, Swiss politics is very intriguing and well worth a look into. It is almost tribal in nature.

I keep meaning to read up on how the hell it's a country at all.

BonnieSituation · 28-09-2020 2:08pm

mikhail wrote: »

I keep meaning to read up on how the hell it's a country at all.

Basically a load of mercenaries bandied together. It is a fascinating country.

JupiterKid · 28-09-2020 4:00pm

Map of the Irish State in terms of the relative size of the various Govt departments and agencies.

IAMAMORON · 28-09-2020 4:03pm

JupiterKid wrote: »

Map of the Irish State in terms of the relative size of the various Govt departments and agencies.

Lovely map. What is with the Great Lakes however?

Are you sure it is not based on the United States?

Dyr · 28-09-2020 4:36pm

JupiterKid wrote: »

Map of the Irish State in terms of the relative size of the various Govt departments and agencies.

BonnieSituation · 28-09-2020 4:50pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Lovely map. What is with the Great Lakes however?

Are you sure it is not based on the United States?

Unless the United States has an Oireachtas as well...

davetherave · 28-09-2020 4:58pm

http://state.zero-g.ie/

Link to the full map website, very interesting

JupiterKid · 28-09-2020 5:24pm

Global electricity consumption per capita in Kilowatt Hours, 2018

Capt'n Midnight · 28-09-2020 5:47pm

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiWXbB5XgAcppnO?format=jpg&name=small

cnocbui · 28-09-2020 7:10pm

JupiterKid wrote: »

Global electricity consumption per capita in Kilowatt Hours, 2018

I presume that isn't domestic consumption alone and includes industry?

Victor · 28-09-2020 8:20pm

cnocbui wrote: »

I presume that isn't domestic consumption alone and includes industry?

It would be the whole economy.

KevRossi · 28-09-2020 10:27pm

Norway has a lot of aluminium production. which it can do cheaper than most thanks to plenty of Hydro. Middle East is pumping oil and gas, air conditioning and general over consumption.

Interesting that some countries are consuming 60-100 times more energy than others.

hognef · 28-09-2020 11:55pm

KevRossi wrote: »

Norway has a lot of aluminium production. which it can do cheaper than most thanks to plenty of Hydro. Middle East is pumping oil and gas, air conditioning and general over consumption.

Interesting that some countries are consuming 60-100 times more energy than others.

Norway also has other industries with high energy demand such as chemicals (e.g. fertilizer) and paper. Also the highest percentage of electrical cars of any country and a higher share of electricity based heating than most countries.

Note though that the map shows electricity specifically, not energy in general.

Capt'n Midnight · 29-09-2020 12:01am

Quantum Erasure · 29-09-2020 12:17am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

maybe a bunch of white slave owners...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiWXbB5XgAcppnO?format=jpg&name=small

It's almost as if it's a federal government of united states....

cnocbui · 29-09-2020 3:11am

Seems more divided to me.

blackwhite · 29-09-2020 9:04am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiWXbB5XgAcppnO?format=jpg&name=small

Nicely counterbalanced by the allocation of Representatives to Congress

Intentionally designed to try and force a system with compromise at it's core - with the Senate giving more power to individual states, and Congress giving more power by weight of population.

Worked well for most of the time, up until the last 20-30 years when entrenched "us and them" politics has taken hold.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/2010_census_reapportionment.svg/1920px-2010_census_reapportionment.svg.png

cnocbui · 29-09-2020 9:51am

KevRossi wrote: »

Norway has a lot of aluminium production. which it can do cheaper than most thanks to plenty of Hydro. Middle East is pumping oil and gas, air conditioning and general over consumption.

Interesting that some countries are consuming 60-100 times more energy than others.

There seems to be some correlation between energy use and longevity:

The map shows Australia as having a high energy footprint per capita, but I looked at a breakdown and domestic energy consumption makes up only about a tenth of the total.

Victor · 29-09-2020 3:40pm

blackwhite wrote: »

Nicely counterbalanced by the allocation of Representatives to Congress

Countered, but not balanced. Take a look at the table here. Larger states are again underrepresented in the House of Representatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Rule#Under_the_2010_U.S._Census

KevRossi · 29-09-2020 4:01pm

Same could be said of the EU. This map is out of date with the UK, but you get the idea. Smaller countries get more reps per head of population to counterbalance all decisions being made for a small number of bigger countries.

ohnonotgmail · 29-09-2020 4:04pm

^^^^^^^^^^^
the differences are much more pronounced in the US

josip · 29-09-2020 5:35pm

KevRossi wrote: »

Same could be said of the EU. This map is out of date with the UK, but you get the idea. Smaller countries get more reps per head of population to counterbalance all decisions being made for a small number of bigger countries.

Is this formulaic and consistent for every country or have countries negotiated better ratios?

Seth Brundle · 29-09-2020 5:48pm

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Seth Brundle · 29-09-2020 5:54pm

An Illustrated Subway Map of Human Anatomy (source) - click on image for higher resolution version)

IAMAMORON · 29-09-2020 7:24pm

Could you post a link?

Or repost in better definition? Apols for being needy, but I would like to have a good look.

cdeb · 29-09-2020 7:39pm

Double click on it for full res

Quantum Erasure · 29-09-2020 7:41pm

Seth Brundle wrote: »

body hair map
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Bodyhair_map_according_to_American_Journal_of_Physical_Anthropology_and_other_sources.jpg

So, around the Mediterranean, the Scandinavian peninsula, places where Europeans colonised... and Hokkaido island in Japan

KevRossi · 30-09-2020 12:58am

josip wrote: »

Is this formulaic and consistent for every country or have countries negotiated better ratios?

The EU uses degressive proportionality, there is a certain amount of horse trading every few years when it comes up to reallocate seats. There are currently 705 MEP's, there can be a max of 751. They could leave it at 705 and wait for the rest to be filled by future expansion, or increase the amount of seats per state.

There's a lot more on it here, but it generally involves much negotiation/dealing/backstabbing at every expansion (or reduction thanks to Brexit).

Representation is currently limited to a maximum of 96 seats and a minimum of 6 seats per state and the seats are distributed according to "degressive proportionality", i.e., the larger the state, the more citizens are represented per MEP. As a result, Maltese and Luxembourgish voters have roughly 10x more influence per voter than citizens of the six large countries.

As of 2014, Germany (80.9 million inhabitants) has 96 seats (previously 99 seats), i.e. one seat for 843,000 inhabitants. Malta (0.4 million inhabitants) has 6 seats, i.e. one seat for 70,000 inhabitants.

Seth Brundle · 30-09-2020 8:20am

Ryanair using maps to troll Aer Lingus...

https://twitter.com/Ryanair/status/1310974827696713728

IAMAMORON · 30-09-2020 11:25am

JupiterKid · 30-09-2020 5:50pm

My second post on this thread I originally created was a fantastic map of the river catchments of Ireland...

...now here is one of both Ireland and the UK. Enjoy! :cool:

Interesting Maps

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