[JupiterKid]

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.

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!

[Your Face]

World map showing folk wrestling styles by region:

[Kermit.de.frog]

Great thread sir.

[JupiterKid]

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.

[Berties_Horse]

[sligojoek]

There's a load of that kind of stuff here.

https://www.kottke.org/tag/maps

[Ipso]

Originally Posted by JupiterKid

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?

[Zaph]

Originally Posted by Ipso

What's the purple one that goes through Lough Neagh?

The Bann

[Scarinae]

Pangaea (a supercontinent that existed roughly 335-175 million years ago) mapped with contemporary geopolitical borders.



(The original is here)

[Victor]

Originally Posted by JupiterKid

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.

Feel free to join up to https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and https://www.openstreetmap.ie/

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.

[Wanderer78]

This thread is better than pornhub, nice one op

[Ipso]

[Duckworth_Luas]

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.

[Badly Drunk Boy]

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:

[Cee-Jay-Cee]

Originally Posted by Scarinae

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!!