Interesting Maps

BonnieSituation

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

(found on Reddit)
In 1973, 40 nodes connected 45 computers. This was the entire internet at the time. This chart was found in 2016 amongst some old papers

I have had that image on my desktop machine for well over a decade (that I've not turned on in a while) in anticipation that I would get it framed. It's class. Thanks for the reminder.

highdef

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.

Seth Brundle

https://twitter.com/ConorMacHistory/status/1320013106916065282?s=19

endacl

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...

IAMAMORON

Their translation for the mentally handicapped is simply appalling, I wouldn't dare repeat it, you would probably end up getting a card.

IAMAMORON

Greenwich Meridian Vote 1884.

Quantum Erasure

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





Edit: even though New Caledonia is east of Australia, it is shown as north east of France, because that's the shortest route on a globe

https://tinyurl.com/y3w85wvp (click 'load map' if it doesn't come up)

For Wallis and Futuna, you pretty much go over the North pole... https://tinyurl.com/y3yn37ob

Seth Brundle

https://twitter.com/osmquality/status/1320765379619139590

Seth Brundle

https://twitter.com/QUBSC/status/1310538450966282241

Seth Brundle

I'm loving this old map of Ireland...

https://twitter.com/QUBSC/status/1304340170414710784

Nexytus

Badly Drunk Boy

Sunset times in Europe on the Summer Solstice:

KevRossi

This is the approximate size of the Vatican in relation to Dublin streets.

Gregor Samsa

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?

ohnonotgmail

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

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?

the map is nonsense. It has arizona and new mexico as states but they didnt become states until 1912

chooseusername

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

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

the map is nonsense. It has arizona and new mexico as states but they didnt become states until 1912

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

ohnonotgmail

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

Gregor Samsa

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

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

Ah, the map is a fantasy. It comes from one of those Reddit threads where they make up maps based on an alternative history. I guess it's supposed to be how the CS might have looked in 1904 had they won the Civil War and then done other stuff.

Not only is the territory all wrong, but Confederate States didn't have a Department of Education, and that flag (3rd national flag/"Blood-Stained Banner") while official, was barely used as it was only introduced 3 months before the end of the war and the dissolution of the CS.

Badly Drunk Boy

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.

BRAZIL!!

ohnonotgmail

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Ah, the map is a fantasy. It comes from one of those Reddit threads where they make up maps based on an alternative history. I guess it's supposed to be how the CS might have looked in 1904 had they won the Civil War and then done other stuff.

Not only is the territory all wrong, but Confederate States didn't have a Department of Education, and that flag (3rd national flag/"Blood-Stained Banner") while official, was barely used as it was only introduced 3 months before the end of the war and the dissolution of the CS.

well that makes more sense

Gregor Samsa

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:

cdeb

Simon Reeve and Michael Palin have both featured them in their documentaries (Tropic of Cancer and Sahara respectively); worth a watch for those interested. One of those forgotten conflicts, but what Morocco is doing there is really no different to what China did to Tibet or the Brits did in the North. (And I'm sure lots of others have done in lots of other places, sadly)

Seth Brundle

From what I can tell, I think this is Newry...

https://twitter.com/GeoConor/status/1321115239371444226


...and further on in that Twitter thread...
https://twitter.com/wartimeni/status/1321133615284105217

Seth Brundle

National Parks in Ireland & the UK (excl. Scotland) - the National parks are the areas shaded in green - Ireland is comparatively disapointing...

AIRMiNet

Irish Railway System in 1920 vs 2020

dzsfah2xoynme9

AIRMiNet wrote: »

Irish Railway System in 1920 vs 2020

You can take the Navan-Kingscourt line, the South Wexford line, the New Ross line and the Limerick-Foynes line out of that. All disused and mostly in tatters.

Victor

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.

JupiterKid

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

cnocbui

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

Australia, the land down under.