Interesting Maps

gerrybbadd wrote: »

I love the true size of. It's great to take Vatican City and move it around various places. It's actually smaller than the relatively small estate i'm living in!

The size of the Vatican looks to be very wrong. If I drag it over to the housing estate beside my home in Kildare, it looks tiny with the greatest distance from one side to the other being about 130m. However if I measure the distance of the widest side to side equivalent of Vatican in its normal location, it's over 1km across. The shape is completely different too. Going by the amount and size of the buildings visible, 1km looks about correct. 130m is most definitely NOT correct.

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Ulster Scots is a language? Hmmm. Let's see...

Dae A need a new aerial?
Gin ye hae guid analogue reception the nou, ye'r like no tae need tae replace yer ruiftap or set-tap aerial for the cheenge-ower – thare nae sic thing as a 'deegital aerial'. But gin ye hae ill analogue reception the nou, ye’ll mebbe need tae replace it.
Find oot by gaun til the aerial-pruifer on Teletext page 284. Anither wey is tae wait until efter the cheenge-ower for tae see if yer pictur's affect.

Doesn't compute.

A language in the ‘bit of an accent’ sense only...

Sunset times in Europe on the Summer Solstice:

Nexytus wrote: »

Confederate States of America Map

Is that map claiming that the Baja California Peninsula, Central America below Mexico, most of the Caribbean islands and what is now Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana were all part of of the Confederacy?

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Don't know if I posted this earlier in the thread...

That French Territories map reminds me of the pub quiz question about
France's longest border.
I thought I'd cracked it with Belgium.

Pherekydes wrote: »

They would have been territories. Still part of the confederacy though, as was much of Central America and the Caribbean.

they were'nt part of the confederancy either. Not to mention chihuahua, sonora and baja not being part of Mexico. the map is a fantasy

chooseusername wrote: »

That French Territories map reminds me of the pub quiz question about
France's longest border.
I thought I'd cracked it with Belgium.

That was also on an earlier post in this thread.

Poor Western Sahara gets a raw deal on this thread (and in general). On pretty much every map, it's down as "no data", due to the fact that Morocco's administration of it is unrecognised by everyone else - which I assume makes collecting data there rather difficult.



However, one thing that Western Sahara has that no one else really does is berms - giant defensive sand walls built across the desert by the Moroccan military. The longest, known as the Moroccan Western Sahara Wall, is an about 2,700 km long and runs from Guerguerat in the south up to 200 km inside Morocco proper near the border with Algeria. It's 3m high (2m with a trench on one side) and riddled with observation towers, bunkers, fences and probably the longest continuous land mine field in the world. It separates the area controlled by Morocco on the west with the mostly uninhabited Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic on the east (which is recognised by the African Union and has diplomatic relations with about 40 other countries).

Anyway, here's a map of the berms of Western Sahara:

Seth Brundle wrote: »

National Parks in Ireland & the UK (excl. Scotland) - the National parks are the areas shaded in green - Ireland is comparatively disapointing...
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=530830&stc=1&d=1603823796

National Parks in the UK and Ireland have very different definitions. In Ireland, the are fully state owned and primarily forestry and bog. In the UK, they are primarily privately owned and are often grassland in farms.

No wonder the Chinese invaded Tibet and are trying to steal India's high bits. Sneaky devils.

Australia, the land down under.

JupiterKid wrote: »

Political map of the world if global sea levels rise by 1,000 metres.

I can see my house. Yay!

Shedite27 wrote: »

Doesn't look like it, this is what Greenland looks like if you removed the ice.

And even if all the ice in the ice caps and all the glaciers on earth melted, it would "only" raise the sea levels by about 70m.

Victor wrote: »

Ah, but if you heat the oceans more, they expand more.

Make that 70.2 metres then.

Visited the set on the Alexander farm in NZ, it only takes up 14 acres.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbiton_Movie_Set

I've no idea how accurate the data is in this map. But I thought Ireland would be the highest

MY BAD wrote: »

I've no idea how accurate the data is in this map. But I thought Ireland would be the highest

Over the last 30 years our carbohydrates sources have diversified hugely into things like pasta (from durum wheat), pizza (I presume normal wheat), rice and even sweet potato.

The British Embassy in Tehran, Iran was originally located on "Winston Churchill Street".

In 1981 (after the 1979 Islamic Revolution), just to piss the British off, the Iranians changed the name of the street to "Bobby Sands Street".





The British responded by using the back gate as their main entrance, and now the address is Ferdowsi Avenue.