Interesting Maps

Seth Brundle wrote: »

My parents were trapped in Naples for over a week during the Eyjafjallajökull ash cloud. Kip of a place to be for any length of time apparently.
Anyhow, map of flight impacts from it...

Naples is beautiful. One of the most beautiful cities in Italy in fact. Parts of the centre and docklands are dodgy but it's mostly very safe.

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Das Reich wrote: »

What a difference between Ireland and Wales

The former border between East and West Germany is also clearly outlined

Quazzie wrote: »

Why is Dublin in Waterford

Because the effects of the ash cloud on aviation were beyond the pale.

This one took me by surprise. I've driven to Syria and Lebanon so I've a good idea of the distance in real life. I would never have believed that Chile was this long for some reason.

Chile and Argentina are first on my bucket list after Nepal and India.

KevRossi wrote: »

This one took me by surprise. I've driven to Syria and Lebanon so I've a good idea of the distance in real life. I would never have believed that Chile was this long for some reason.

Chile and Argentina are first on my bucket list after Nepal and India.

The mercator map projection would be a big reason people don't realise how big south America and Africa actually are

https://interestingengineering.com/not-new-earth-authagraph-map-accurate-real-view
Narukawa explains his design named "World without Ends" in these words:

"It is able to tile the AuthaGraphic world map without gaps and overlaps. The way of tessellation has seamless connections between maps as if it is an Escher’s tiling. Same as fishes and birds in his painting, six continents are never fragmented and seven oceans keep their continuous networks. It had been thought the world is on an infinite plane since geometries of a sphere and of an infinite plane are similar. Walking on both surfaces, we do not meet an end. A geographical network in the map is able to expand to any directions on the tessellated maps. Thus the world map reproduces the spherical world without dead end on a plane."

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

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This is one of those "why" things that always got me. Two plates just makes sense.

I used to live in Ottawa and naturally being right on the border with Quebec you would get Quebecer cars coming into the city all the time. It always struck me as one of those difference for difference's sake things that the quebecois would get up to, anyway...

The weird thing was, that you could mount anything on the front so you would find a lot of PQ or Hab plates etc, but one day I was walking through Ottawa and I had to double-check if I wasn't seeing things, but someone had mounted their Irish licence plate on the front of the car. It was bizarre. The photo is buried somewhere, I hope I come across it again some day. All I remember it was Tipp North anyway.

New Home wrote: »

I'm lost - why does it say pre-famine, based on 1911 population?

On a side note, while it's great that more people can speak Irish now, I think it's a shame that the old Irish dialects have been lost.

Because the map shows the ability of people over 60 in 1911, so they were born before or around the famine.

New Home wrote: »

That's fair enough, but my point was that it's hardly accurate, as it doesn't take into account all the people who died or emigrated. All it shows is the number of people over 60 in 1911 who could speak Irish then.

Unless Irish speakers in a district were more likely to die or emigrate then it is a fair, if not quite perfect, measure of the proportion of Irish speakers in that district. That proportion could be applied to the population in 1841 which may be been a higher.

KevRossi wrote: »

This one took me by surprise. I've driven to Syria and Lebanon so I've a good idea of the distance in real life. I would never have believed that Chile was this long for some reason.

Chile and Argentina are first on my bucket list after Nepal and India.

Chile 🇨🇱 was a big disappointment for me. Spent a few months there for work. The main cities are terrible...people relatively unfriendly and the food is dire. Some beautiful parts down south in the Pucon and beyond and the Atacama is worth a visit. Argentina is great...

https://twitter.com/EuropeanYouthEU/status/1371879953449488391

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

https://twitter.com/EuropeanYouthEU/status/1371879953449488391

Ireland's relatively young population due to 3 factors:

1. Inward immigration of so many 20 and 30 year olds from the EU and Latin America.
2. Historically a slightly higher birth rate than many other countries.
3. Effects of mass migration from the 1950's to 1990's where many of those who left stayed in countries like the UK and have now retired there. Some came home, most did not.