Interesting Maps

Seth Brundle · 04-12-2019 3:47pm

Beasty wrote: »

So if The Baltics merged with Finland and threw Romania into the mix should their anthem start

"Oh my God Lithuania, wake up!"

What I'm most surprised about that one is how every country in Europe starts their National Anthem with an English word :pac:

Sky King · 04-12-2019 4:18pm

Seth Brundle wrote: »

What I'm most surprised about that one is how every country in Europe starts their National Anthem with an English word :pac:

It's highly suspect.

Ours starts with Sinn which means 'us' or 'we' doesn't it?

Doesn't start with fkin Soldiers anyway.

Wayne Jarvis · 04-12-2019 4:39pm

Sky King wrote: »

It's highly suspect.

Ours starts with Sinn which means 'us' or 'we' doesn't it?

Doesn't start with fkin Soldiers anyway.

Our national anthem starts with the words "This town, is coming like a ghost town"

KevRossi · 04-12-2019 5:39pm

There's a guy on Twitter called Simon Kustenmacher, he's a German living in Australia, always putting up good maps.

https://twitter.com/simongerman600

KevRossi · 04-12-2019 5:54pm

Europe overlaid on Australia - from 1939

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Map of Ireland from late 1700's which includes family names.

http://www.old-maps.com/Ireland/IrelandMaps/ireland_1795_Thompson_18x24_web.jpg

Ipso · 04-12-2019 6:09pm

Ptolemy's map of Ireland, i think it's the earliest known map of Irleand. The second one has the names of early tribes.

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Scarinae · 04-12-2019 6:52pm

A NASA map of the earth's seasonal cycle

Esel · 04-12-2019 7:21pm

Sky King wrote: »

It's highly suspect.

Ours starts with Sinn which means 'us' or 'we' doesn't it?

Doesn't start with fkin Soldiers anyway.

That's the chorus btw, and the first word in the english language chorus is 'Soldiers'.

AllForIt · 04-12-2019 7:23pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Are you sure that's not the one for bananas?

04-12-2019 7:28pm

Napoleon’s march on (in beige) and retreat from (in black) Moscow. The thickness of the line denotes the number of soldiers as well as their route. The line graph underneath is the air temperature. Crossing a river in the depths of winter is not a good military move..

From Edward Tufte’s book on how to display data

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.

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

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.

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 ?

IAMAMORON · 05-12-2019 1:41pm

Sky King wrote: »

It's highly suspect.

Ours starts with Sinn which means 'us' or 'we' doesn't it?

Doesn't start with fkin Soldiers anyway.

In the English version of Amhrán Na Bhfhian there are some liberties taken on translation to enable the anthem to be sung smoothly.

Sinn é Fianna Fáil

Translates to

Soldiers are we

Yes it actually says We are soldiers, but try singing it that way as opposed to We are Soldiers. It doesn't have the same ring to it, thus the switch.

It cuts both ways. The line

"Anocht a théam sa Bhearna Bhaoil"

gets a direct translation to

Tonight we will man the "Bhearna Bhaoil"

The literal translation of Bhearna Bhaoil is " the gap of danger" it is actually an area in the Wicklow Mountains somewhere around the glen of Imal and Lug na Quilla. Famous bandit area around 400 years ago, but that is a different story.

In the Irish version the "Bhearna Bhaoil" is actually a symbol of bravery against future problems. It is about standing up to adversity and doing the right thing, kind of. Being brave for your country. Fighting for what is right against all odds etc.

Charles Babbage · 05-12-2019 1:55pm

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

Lots of similar maps on the Cain website

Sloppy_Joe · 05-12-2019 2:00pm

Cut out the middleman and go to reddit.com/r/mapporn

gerrybbadd · 05-12-2019 2:24pm

Not sure has this been posted already

IAMAMORON · 05-12-2019 2:31pm

I love the chlann map, but it is very controversial in fairness. I never understood why there were no similar chlann names around the country. Good map though, I have seen her before, but a pinch of salt required.

BonnieSituation · 05-12-2019 2:36pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

In the English version of Amhrán Na Bhfhian there are some liberties taken on translation to enable the anthem to be sung smoothly.

Sinn é Fianna Fáil

Translates to

Soldiers are we

Yes it actually says We are soldiers, but try singing it that way as opposed to We are Soldiers. It doesn't have the same ring to it, thus the switch.

It cuts both ways. The line

"Anocht a théam sa Bhearna Bhaoil"

gets a direct translation to

Tonight we will man the "Bhearna Bhaoil"

The literal translation of Bhearna Bhaoil is " the gap of danger" it is actually an area in the Wicklow Mountains somewhere around the glen of Imal and Lug na Quilla. Famous bandit area around 400 years ago, but that is a different story.

In the Irish version the "Bhearna Bhaoil" is actually a symbol of bravery against future problems. It is about standing up to adversity and doing the right thing, kind of. Being brave for your country. Fighting for what is right against all odds etc.

To be more accurate, the Anthem was originally composed in English. The Irish version is the translation. so any "liberties taken" are there as Gaeilge.

Hector Savage · 05-12-2019 2:53pm

Sloppy_Joe wrote: »

Cut out the middleman and go to reddit.com/r/mapporn

Yeah but reddit is full of /dickheads ...

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 05-12-2019 3:41pm

KAGY wrote: »

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

My favourite thing about that that I always remember from history class is that it was called the Down Survey simply because it was written down.

KAGY · 05-12-2019 4:22pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

My favourite thing about that that I always remember from history class is that it was called the Down Survey simply because it was written down.

I thought is was because they laid down chains (as in the actual standard chains made up of rods of the imperial measurement system).

But your reason makes as much sense.

BTW: wikipedia
The chain is a unit of length equal to 66 feet (22 yards). It is subdivided into 100 links[1][2] or 4 rods. There are 10 chains in a furlong, and 80 chains in one statute mile.[2] In metric terms, it is 20.1168 m long.[2]

05-12-2019 8:35pm

And a cricket pitch is one chain long (from the Bureau of Useless Factoids)

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