Interesting Maps

Scarinae · 04-12-2019 7:56pm

A good map for December - the Christmas gift-bringers of Europe

There's an article to with the map which you can read here.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 04-12-2019 8:16pm

So Ireland spends the most as a percentage of income on alcohol? And it appears it’s not even close.

borderlinemeath · 04-12-2019 8:30pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

So Ireland spends the most as a percentage of income on alcohol? And it appears it’s not even close.

Only because alcohol is taxed so heavily and far more expensive compared to the known heavy drinkers such as Finland and Russia.

the beer revolu · 04-12-2019 8:32pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

So Ireland spends the most as a percentage of income on alcohol? And it appears it’s not even close.

Combination of being heavy drinkers and very high duty and vat on alcohol.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 04-12-2019 8:39pm

borderlinemeath wrote: »

Only because alcohol is taxed so heavily and far more expensive compared to the known heavy drinkers such as Finland and Russia.

It’s expensive in other countries too.

KevRossi · 04-12-2019 8:53pm

The areas in red were called 'Zone Rouge' and were no-go areas after WW1. They were filled with unexploded ordnance, bodies, barbed wire, machinery etc. The areas are in rich farmland and were gradually cleared out over the following 80 years. In parts of that area you still need special permission to erect any structure, they government will get teams in to check the earth for bombs and bodies.

For comparison, the distance from Paris at the foot of the map to Lille near the top is about the same as Cork to Dublin.

Lille to Namcy is about the same as Belfast to Tralee.

borderlinemeath · 04-12-2019 9:49pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

It’s expensive in other countries too.

While we're usually around the top 10, we're not the heaviest drinkers - lots of data below - including the map posted, but on the graph it looks like we're 7 or 8 per consumption/GDP

https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption

afkasurfjunkie · 04-12-2019 10:11pm

Excellent thread. Keep ‘em coming. I love maps.

Andrewf20 · 04-12-2019 10:12pm

Antipodal map, showing where you come out the opposite side of the earth. Approx 15% of land is opposite land which is roughly 4% of the surface of the earth.

dasdog · 04-12-2019 10:29pm

The offend everyone in Europe map

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 04-12-2019 11:14pm

borderlinemeath wrote: »

While we're usually around the top 10, we're not the heaviest drinkers - lots of data below - including the map posted, but on the graph it looks like we're 7 or 8 per consumption/GDP

https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption

We’re big bingers, according to that. The pattern is more telling to me than the amount.

Top ten out of 200+ countries? Yeah, we’re boozehounds.

[Deleted User] · 04-12-2019 11:26pm

There’s been a map like this in my local pub long before Brexit was a twinkle in somebody’s eye

[Deleted User] · 04-12-2019 11:31pm

Psychogeographic map - how the brain sees the body

Tell me how · 04-12-2019 11:31pm

Deleted User wrote: »

There’s been a map like this in my local pub long before Brexit was a twinkle in somebody’s eye

Interesting that those who drew that map didn't allow their dislike of the UK to motivate them to take back the 6 counties.

vektarman · 04-12-2019 11:34pm

Stereotype map of Europe.

[Deleted User] · 04-12-2019 11:40pm

Map of Ogof Ffynnon Ddu, one of the longest caves in Britain and one that i was reckless enough to go into as a teenager - some while ago, now!

sligojoek · 04-12-2019 11:57pm

vektarman wrote: »

Stereotype map of Europe.

I read the top line as "Lots of Darkies".

Off to Specsavers in the morning for me.

Ipso · 05-12-2019 12:14am

Tell me how wrote: »

Interesting that those who drew that map didn't allow their dislike of the UK to motivate them to take back the 6 counties.

Probably didn't show foddin sport son the tv either.

Charles Babbage · 05-12-2019 12:14am

Irish Language 1871

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 05-12-2019 12:31am

50% of Canadians live below the red line:

Quantum Erasure · 05-12-2019 12:38am

BalcombeSt4 · 05-12-2019 12:39am

i can't find it online but in Ed Moloney's book "Voices From the Grave" about a UVF man (David ervine) & about a IRA man (Brendan Hughes) it shows 3 different very detailed maps about The Trouble hot spots. Fiirst map is about the North of Ireland in it's entirety and shows all the the main places in it like Greysteel, Strabane, Sion Mills, Omagh, Crossmaglen, Camlough, Derry Claudy, Newry, Craigavon etc...the only places it shows outside the North are Belturbet, Monaghan town, Dundalk & Pettigo

The second map shows Belfast, it shows all the main places in East, South, West & North. So South you have Andersontown & Castlreagh, in the North you have Ardoyne, Glengormley, Mount Vernon etc.... In the West you have the Truf Lodge, Falls, Ballymurphy, Shankill, Woodvale, Sandy Row, Shankill etc...And in the East you have the Short Strand, Newtownards, Woodstock, Ravenhill etc...

And the final one is about the Falls Road circa 1969.
So you have the Royal Victoria Hospital (not sure if it's there now), Roden street, Grosvenor road, Cyprus street, Lesson street, Little Distillery & places like Divis Flats, the Clonard Monastrey, Bombay street & so on, very interesting just to see clearly how close the UVF & IRA were pusehed up together with RUC & British soldiers in the mix as well, like a giant bomb ready to explode

JohnnyFlash · 05-12-2019 12:56am

BalcombeSt4 wrote: »

i can't find it online but in Ed Moloney's book "Voices From the Grave" about a UVF man (David ervine) & about a IRA man (Brendan Hughes) it shows 3 different very detailed maps about The Trouble hot spots. Fiirst map is about the North of Ireland in it's entirety and shows all the the main places in it like Greysteel, Strabane, Sion Mills, Omagh, Crossmaglen, Camlough, Derry Claudy, Newry, Craigavon etc...the only places it shows outside the North are Belturbet, Monaghan town, Dundalk & Pettigo

The second map shows Belfast, it shows all the main places in East, South, West & North. So South you have Andersontown & Castlreagh, in the North you have Ardoyne, Glengormley, Mount Vernon etc.... In the West you have the Truf Lodge, Falls, Ballymurphy, Shankill, Woodvale, Sandy Row, Shankill etc...And in the East you have the Short Strand, Newtownards, Woodstock, Ravenhill etc...

And the final one is about the Falls Road circa 1969.
So you have the Royal Victoria Hospital (not sure if it's there now), Roden street, Grosvenor road, Cyprus street, Lesson street, Little Distillery & places like Divis Flats, the Clonard Monastrey, Bombay street & so on, very interesting just to see clearly how close the UVF & IRA were pusehed up together with RUC & British soldiers in the mix as well, like a giant bomb ready to explode

So some maps of Northern Ireland and its capital city?

Charles Babbage · 05-12-2019 1:20am

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

50% of Canadians live below the red line:

And that line would run through Northern Italy in Europe.

KAGY · 05-12-2019 8:54am

The map of Ireland before and after the Down Survey, the first large scale survey based on triangulation.

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php

fixXxer · 05-12-2019 9:47am

KAGY wrote: »

The map of Ireland before and after the Down Survey, the first large scale survey based on triangulation.

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php

Oh man, I'd love a high quality print out of that for the wall at home.

KAGY · 05-12-2019 10:08am

KAGY wrote: »

The map of Ireland before and after the Down Survey, the first large scale survey based on triangulation.

Lest we forget the reason why the survey was commissioned

Seth Brundle · 05-12-2019 11:14am

KAGY wrote: »

The map of Ireland before and after the Down Survey, the first large scale survey based on triangulation.

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php

The before map is strange - the coastline is quite accurate for most of the country but they must have been on the poitín when doing the stetch from Galway to Derry

Badly Drunk Boy · 05-12-2019 11:28am

Seth Brundle wrote: »

The before map is strange - the coastline is quite accurate for most of the country but they must have been on the poitín when doing the stetch from Galway to Derry

Lough Erne dried up a good bit too!

Hector Savage · 05-12-2019 12:37pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

How did you do this ?

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