Funny Maps Thread

JupiterKid

Don’t know if this has been done before on AH (I suspect it hasn’t), but post up your funny/humorous maps here.

Here goes...

I love those maps that don't have New Zealand in them. Poor guys are too far away.

Here's a prime example:

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/fun-maps/fun-maps-15.jpg

pleas advice

Sometimes they leave out other countries...

JupiterKid

Norn Iron - funny ‘cos it’s true!

Bob Harris

JupiterKid

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Mr. CooL ICE

rossie1977

Map of world if no land existed

zell12

Skylinehead

All Romes lead to Roads

oneilla

Map of battles compiled from Wikipedia data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK5OsDWYJmQ

TeaBagMania

oneilla wrote: »

Map of battles compiled from Wikipedia data

France #1 ?
surely they cant be serious

bnt

The Peters Projection map, which is designed to show relative areas to be compared more accurately:



The standard Mercator Projection map makes North America look much bigger than Africa, but is it? No:

• Africa: 30.3 million km²
• North America: 24.7 million km²
• USA: 9.8 million km²

So North America is smaller, and the USA - including Alaska (1.7 million km²) - is less than a third the size of Africa. Europe really is that small.

Capt'n Midnight

https://atlasofprejudice.com/

Capt'n Midnight

bnt wrote: »

The Peters Projection map, which is designed to show relative areas to be compared more accurately:

http://www.stanfords.co.uk/content/images/thumbs/011/0117492_CoverImage_28229_PetersWorldPol_jkt.jpeg

The standard Mercator Projection map makes North America look much bigger than Africa, but is it? No:

• Africa: 30.3 million km²
• North America: 24.7 million km²
• USA: 9.8 million km²

So North America is smaller, and the USA - including Alaska (1.7 million km²) - is less than a third the size of Africa. Europe really is that small.

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/977:_Map_Projections
What's that? You think I don't like the Peters map because I'm uncomfortable with having my cultural assumptions challenged? Are you sure you're not... ::puts on sunglasses:: ...projecting?

Lirange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEUgch2iQRQ

Pherekydes

The Mercator projection shows Greenland and Africa to be approximately the same size. In reality, Africa is roughly 14 times bigger!

Capt'n Midnight

Pherekydes wrote: »

The Mercator projection shows Greenland and Africa to be approximately the same size. In reality, Africa is roughly 14 times bigger!

Back in the days when Nation States weren't a thing in most of the world, the huge advantage of Mercator to navigators on ships was that a straight line on such a map was a straight line in the real world too.

mzungu

Vincent Vega

Mark Rippetoe wrote: »

The "offend everyone in Europe" map

Couldn't make out Italy so found a better quality one.

Pasta with ketchup :pac:

pleas advice

pleas advice wrote: »

Sometimes they leave out other countries...

link didn't seem to work, heres another one

Badly Drunk Boy

Here's a map of the highest group of non-locals in each country in Europe. (The UK contingent are hanging on in as the biggest group in Ireland, against a very strong effort by the Polish. )

zell12

World vertical map put China in middle