Interesting Maps

Wayne Jarvis · 31-03-2020 8:35am

A map of the human body done in the style of the London Underground.

Seth Brundle · 31-03-2020 9:27am

WesternZulu wrote: »

This map created by Teagasc looks at geographic isolation in the context of the new rules on social distancing and travel within 2km.

Teagasc calculated how many houses every household in the country has within a 2km radius to highlight those areas of the country where geographic isolation adds to the social isolation rules. Naturally enough these areas are also isolated form a whole range of services.

Your image is socially distancing itself too

WesternZulu · 31-03-2020 9:36am

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Your image is socially distancing itself too

Thanks; who knew attaching an image would be so difficult

Seth Brundle · 31-03-2020 10:03am

WesternZulu wrote: »

Thanks; who knew attaching an image would be so difficult

Years of experience from making my own mistakes

cnocbui · 31-03-2020 10:42pm

Apparently some Australians are unhappy with their government's handling of the Covid-19 crisis, which has resulted in a proposal for a new map:

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Shady Grady · 31-03-2020 10:46pm

Guy Person wrote: »

A map of the human body done in the style of the London Underground.

**** I'm lost already.

dball · 31-03-2020 11:46pm

BonnieSituation wrote: »

http://map.geohive.ie/mapviewer.html

You can change the layers here from old 6" maps to modern. It's a cracking resource.

now, that's a map. great find OP and greater resource.

wow

sligojoek · 31-03-2020 11:52pm

dball wrote: »

now, that's a map. great find OP and greater resource.

wow

Yes. I spent an hour on it the other night. I'll be going back to it again.

Seth Brundle · 01-04-2020 12:05am

Shady Grady wrote: »

**** I'm lost already.

Maybe start off with some basic medical knowledge and work your way up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygf0gRQsUb4

Seth Brundle · 01-04-2020 12:09am

sligojoek wrote: »

Yes. I spent an hour on it the other night. I'll be going back to it again.

I love looking at the old 25" maps from a century ago and see how a place has changed.

Hoop66 · 01-04-2020 12:17pm

Victor wrote: »

Do not fold them - it will damage them and devalue them.

They are already folded up. I was wondering whether they are worth more to a collector unfolded.

Tokyo · 01-04-2020 2:20pm

One of my favourite maps, as not much has changed between then and now. Have a framed version hanging in my living room.

Tell me how · 01-04-2020 3:38pm

^^^^^

Any ideas why recently certain images are not showing for me on google chrome. This post is blank for me aside from the text and I have noticed this quite a bit recently.
Am using Chrome Version 80.0.3987.162 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Tokyo · 01-04-2020 3:41pm

Tell me how wrote: »

^^^^^

Any ideas why recently certain images are not showing for me on google chrome. This post is blank for me aside from the text and I have noticed this quite a bit recently.
Am using Chrome Version 80.0.3987.162 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Is imgur blocked for you?

Tell me how · 01-04-2020 3:43pm

mike_ie wrote: »

Is imgur blocked for you?

Not by choice. Can browse to the site and view images on it without issue.

Edit: The image now loaded...........

Tokyo · 01-04-2020 3:44pm

might be worth trying another browser to see if it's browser related, or if something is more globally blocked on your end.

davetherave · 01-04-2020 5:16pm

There is a plethora of old maps listed here on the UCD Library to browse through

Historic Maps of Dublin: https://libguides.ucd.ie/findingmaps/mapshistDublin
Historic Maps of Ireland: https://libguides.ucd.ie/findingmaps/mapshistIreland

This is an exact survey of the city and suburbs of Dublin from 1756 by John Rocque

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/ids:10135320

ablelocks · 02-04-2020 4:38pm

gloriously detailed maps

The Mystery Map of Assinine Atoll

Panorama of the New York Zoological Park

atlasobscura site...

(don't think it's been posted already, but apologies if it has)

Noo · 03-04-2020 5:27am

This is probably a lot more interesting if you are familiar with Brisbane, but I still think it would be appreciated here.
"Google Earth" from 1946.

This is not mobile friendly so will work best on a desktop.
I have to give instructions as its an interactive map so won't let me directly link the 1946 stuff.

http://cityplan2014maps.brisbane.qld.gov.au/CityPlan/

Click "Map Contents" on the left, then "Aerial", then the drop down arrow for Aerial and tah dah! you can directly compare imagery from 1946 and 2012 for the whole city.

Icaras · 03-04-2020 8:43am

Japanese Pearl harbor maps. On mobile so just giving the web page
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2020/03/japanese-pilots-map-of-pearl-harbor-attack-now-at-library/

03-04-2020 8:53am

Icaras wrote: »

Japanese Pearl harbor maps. On mobile so just giving the web page
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2020/03/japanese-pilots-map-of-pearl-harbor-attack-now-at-library/

Absolutely fascinating thanks

Capt'n Midnight · 07-04-2020 9:34pm

from twitter.com/eu_echo/status/1247545314019549187

Wayne Jarvis · 08-04-2020 11:00am

From Andrew DeGraff. He does maps of where movies are set and where the main characters go in them. Here is his one from my favourite movie Shaun of the Dead.

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Wayne Jarvis · 08-04-2020 11:02am

And from The Goonies which is set both above ground and underground so a map for each.

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sligojoek · 12-04-2020 6:49pm

John Creedon's Atlas of Ireland is on RTE1 now. Discussing the early days of Ordnance Survey Ireland.

BonnieSituation · 12-04-2020 7:41pm

sligojoek wrote: »

John Creedon's Atlas of Ireland is on RTE1 now. Discussing the early days of Ordnance Survey Ireland.

I've worked for the OSI in the past (I'm a Surveyor/GIS analyst) and some of the stories about the Triangulation of Ireland just blow my mind.

Even knowing the science behind it and the skills involved, I can still never get my head into the people that did that excruciating work, with primitive equipment, over the course of those 8 years! I hated even setting out small fields!

They have the original Colby's Bars from the Foyle Baseline Measurement in the Park HQ.

The misclosures and errors of the whole project are insane even by modern standards:

- Average misclosure of 2.8sec of arc in the triangles
- Foyle base measurement was within 5 inches of the Salisbury Plain base measurement (through the triangles)
- The baseline was found in 1960 to be out by 1 inch over its 8 mile length ie. 1:506880 :eek::eek::eek::eek:

https://www.osi.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/The-Irish-Grid-A-Description-of-the-Coordinate-Reference-System-Used-in-Ireland.pdf

https://www.osi.ie/about/history/interior-survey/

Decent reads there if a bit technical. But should give an outline to those that want to know the madness involved in old school mapping.

sligojoek · 12-04-2020 11:54pm

Very interesting , Bonnie.

I'll look at those links again. The OSI stuff was just in the first segment. As luck would have it I wasn't able to listen to that bit. The rest was looking at the origins of placenames in Derry, Donegal, Leitrim and Cavan. He spoke a lot about a guy called O Donovan (I missed his first name) Who did a lot of surveying and researching names of townslands. Seemed like a really interesting guy.

BonnieSituation · 13-04-2020 12:16am

sligojoek wrote: »

Very interesting , Bonnie.

I'll look at those links again. The OSI stuff was just in the first segment. As luck would have it I wasn't able to listen to that bit. The rest was looking at the origins of placenames in Derry, Donegal, Leitrim and Cavan. He spoke a lot about a guy called O Donovan (I missed his first name) Who did a lot of surveying and researching names of townslands. Seemed like a really interesting guy.

Placenames (toponoymy) are my first love as it happens!

Check out www.logainm.ie

John/Sean O'Donovan's research is second to none. An incredible survey and historical record.

https://www.logainm.ie/Eolas/Data/Brainse/logainm.ie-lamhscribhinn-sheain-ui-dhonnabhain.pdf

Link to his ledger.

General Toponymy resources:

https://www.logainm.ie/en/res/

Him working for the OS is the reason why we have a lot of dual spelling of English place-names as the Post Office at the time had their own records.

So this is why you have things like Ballinagh/Bellananagh in Cavan and Mallaranny/Mulrany in Mayo.

I could go on all night!

Junkyard Tom · 13-04-2020 12:24am

https://blueshift.io/

Visual representation of immigration to the US. Pretty.

sligojoek · 13-04-2020 12:30am

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Placenames (toponoymy) are my first love as it happens!

Check out www.logainm.ie

John/Sean O'Donovan's research is second to none. An incredible survey and historical record.

https://www.logainm.ie/Eolas/Data/Brainse/logainm.ie-lamhscribhinn-sheain-ui-dhonnabhain.pdf

Link to his ledger.

General Toponymy resources:

https://www.logainm.ie/en/res/

Him working for the OS is the reason why we have a lot of dual spelling of English place-names as the Post Office at the time had their own records.

So this is why you have things like Ballinagh/Bellananagh in Cavan and Mallaranny/Mulrany in Mayo.

I could go on all night!

Thanks again. I'm far from an expert but love this king of thing. I'll have to find out why a Y changed to an E in my home village.

Interesting Maps

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