Interesting Maps

Capt'n Midnight · 20-09-2020 9:04pm

KevRossi wrote: »

The red countries on this map are the only six nations on the planet who do not claim to be democracies; Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Qatar, Brunei and our good friends in the Vatican City.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJ68jQRW4AMt5Nk?format=jpg&name=medium

Back in the day

roosterman71 · 21-09-2020 10:24am

cnocbui wrote: »

We need a map showing all the liars.

https://www.indy100.com/article/democracy-index-economist-intelligence-unit-map-data-report-norway-democratic-united-states-8191501

Must be nearly time to lighten that green on the UK

ranto_boy · 21-09-2020 10:28am

roosterman71 wrote: »

Must be nearly time to lighten that green on the UK

Why? Have they had some vote and not respected it or implemented it?

Orange Tiny Terror · 21-09-2020 12:30pm

endacl wrote: »

Tax haven

Wax haven

roosterman71 · 21-09-2020 1:32pm

ranto_boy wrote: »

Why? Have they had some vote and not respected it or implemented it?

I don't think the way the government over there works is true democracy where a party with minority share of the vote can have a huge majority in parliament (FPTP electoral system), which can create any law at any time without any oversight from other houses. Just look at the laws being proposed in the last few weeks, the awarding of government contracts to "friends" of the Conservative party, etc.

JupiterKid · 22-09-2020 3:57pm

Reader's Digest Wallet Experiment by City

PommieBast · 22-09-2020 4:11pm

JupiterKid wrote: »

Reader's Digest Wallet Experiment by City

Did they have any stats regarding the contents returned? Have vague recollection of a similar study that also noted wallets returned with and without cash..

josip · 22-09-2020 4:20pm

12 data points per city (many populations of over 5 million) would only be statistically significant for a publication like the Reader's Digest.

dan1895 · 23-09-2020 8:48pm

https://twitter.com/TheJeremieFern/status/1308816158536146947?s=19

Quantum Erasure · 23-09-2020 10:04pm

josip wrote: »

12 data points per city (many populations of over 5 million) would only be statistically significant for a publication like the Reader's Digest.

Hey, that's not the wallet inspector!

Barna77 · 23-09-2020 10:17pm

JupiterKid wrote: »

Reader's Digest Wallet Experiment by City

Not surprised about Madrid!

(I found a wallet the other day and returned it to the owner though

)

PARlance · 23-09-2020 10:55pm

josip wrote: »

12 data points per city (many populations of over 5 million) would only be statistically significant for a publication like the Reader's Digest.

You've made the assumption that they actually conducted the experiment in the first place I see.

KevRossi · 25-09-2020 1:43am

This map shows every railway, local train network, underground system and tramway in the world*.

https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

It also shows many non-public train systems, such as those run by Bord na Mona and if you zoom in, you can see the routes of many of the old disused and ripped up tracks in Ireland.

Fascinating stuff. You can take a train from Ireland to Sri Lanka, save for 3 ferries (Dublin-Holyhead, Lake Van in Turkey and India-Sri Lanka) and an 80 Km bus ride across the Iran-Pakistan border. Or straight from Holyhead to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam via Russia and China with no ferry or bus breaks.

*If you notice something missing you can contact them and edit it yourself.

Victor · 25-09-2020 2:15am

KevRossi wrote: »

This map shows every railway, local train network, underground system and tramway in the world*.

https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

...

*If you notice something missing you can contact them and edit it yourself.

Note that the data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, which also has a version with railways and other public transport highlighted. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/53.3596/-6.2852&layers=T Data changes have to happen there. You can use the "Add a note to the map" button on the right hand side of the screen to let mappers know about issues.

Capt'n Midnight · 25-09-2020 8:56pm

forgottenhills wrote: »

If you want to link random maps of railways against religions then why not also show the map of railway lines in the South against religions?

Actually the one I'd like is roads and constituencies.

Pádraig Flynn was well known for having a road like that back in the day.

cdeb · 25-09-2020 9:04pm

KevRossi wrote: »

This map shows every railway, local train network, underground system and tramway in the world*.

https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

Or straight from Holyhead to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam via Russia and China with no ferry or bus breaks.

I did that trip a few years back. Would have loved to have known about this site back then (if it was around). Glad I didn't miss something though - seems Ho Chi Minh is about as far as you can get from Holyhead by rail alright

BarraOG · 26-09-2020 12:24am

Map of the surname Griffin in 1901. According to the 1901 census, there were 7,730 with the surname Griffin in Ireland at that time with the surname ranked 74th in Ireland. In Munster there were 4,792, ranking the surname in 31st place. In Connacht there were 1,315 and the surname was ranked 86th.

In Co. Clare the surname is associated with the Dalcassian family of the name Ó Gríofa. This surname was also anglicised to either Griffy or Griffey.

https://barrygriffin.com/surname-maps/surnames.php?surname=Griffin

BarraOG · 26-09-2020 12:26am

Townlands containing "Bal" in the 1901 census:

Townlands containing "Town" in the same census:

https://barrygriffin.com/surname-maps/index.php/maps-of-irish-placenames/

Capt'n Midnight · 26-09-2020 12:33am

BarraOG wrote: »

Townlands containing "Town" in the same census:

https://www.townlands.ie/ if you want to check them.
326 baronies, 2,509 civil parishes, 3,485 electoral divisions, 61,109 townlands currently mapped on OpenStreetMap.

souter · 26-09-2020 12:45pm

Good analysis here: https://zeeconomics.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/the-wallet-experiment/
It is essentially worthless due to miniscule sample size

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.

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