Interesting Maps

IAMAMORON

greenspurs wrote: »

And Russia and Eastern Europe are fond of Anal !!! :eek::D

In fairness everyone knew that already.

Beasty

Beasty wrote: »

Thread returned from a Geography trip

To celebrate, here's a map of a bus service at an airport



Because, you know, After Hours is a cesspit etc.

IAMAMORON

IAMAMORON wrote: »

In fairness everyone knew that already.

Actually, I didn’t. But there again, I‘ve never been too either place

Ipso

Somewhat map related, great book that was recommended by a few people in the "what are you reading" thread.

https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Geography-Explain-Everything-Politics/dp/1501121472/ref=sr_1_1?crid=C7VT2WBXUIXA&keywords=prisoners+of+geography+by+tim+marshall&qid=1576526009&sprefix=prisoners+of+ge%2Caps%2C192&sr=8-1

igCorcaigh

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1206664255929491456?s=19

mikhail

igCorcaigh wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1206664255929491456?s=19

The location reminds me of the Sahara Sea proposals, a collections of climate engineering projects (mostly a century+ old) to flood basins in the Sahara using seawater from the Med or the Atlantic. Here's one of them:

Deja Boo

Victor

mikhail wrote: »

The location reminds me of the Sahara Sea proposals, a collections of climate engineering projects (mostly a century+ old) to flood basins in the Sahara using seawater from the Med or the Atlantic. Here's one of them:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/All_proposed_routes.PNG/1280px-All_proposed_routes.PNG

Madness. If you use salt water, you poison the water in the depression.

That said, if you divert Nile water, you potentially mess up the delta and the the area just outside it and affect the circulation of the Med.

Melania Frump

A buddy of mine had a birthmark in the shape of Africa on her inner thigh.
Lots of fellas found it interesting apparently.

mikhail

Victor wrote: »

Madness. If you use salt water, you poison the water in the depression.

You do. I think the idea is that you significantly improve the rainfall patterns in the area though. Really careful climate modelling would be critical not to **** things up, mind. I don't know if we're there yet. If those countries get desperate for water, they might start thinking hard about it. It's not like there's much water there to poison, and the sahara isn't shrinking on any human timescale.

That said, if you divert Nile water, you potentially mess up the delta and the the area just outside it and affect the circulation of the Med.

No way the countries that lie on the Nile would let that happen. They depend on it too much.

L1011

Seth Brundle wrote: »

...removed huge whiskey maps...

The Irish one is woefully incomplete.

I live in a town with a Distillery Lane where I can even name the brand (Chamberlains) that was made there; not on it.

Mal-Adjusted

I often find myself arsing around on Google maps. some pretty intiresting stuff you can find...

This is Baarle-Nassau, a town mostly in the Netherlands but for some historical quirke many segments are part of Belgium and if your house straddled one of the many borders (which many do) they decided that whichever country your front door was in was your nation of residence.


There is a disputed border between Egypt and Sudan. Egypt believes their border forms a straight line to the see while Sudan recognizes the border as traveling south and then tapering up at an angle. the intiresting bit is this means that there is a segment of unclaimed land which neither country recognizes as theirs. Probably one of the few unclaimed bits of land in the world?

Tuco88

Deleted User wrote: »

Areas of Ireland most at risk of sinkholes

Its after missing the historic copper mine in allhies west cork... Large sink hole on the news not so long ago from there.

JupiterKid

Map of the complete surface of the planet Mars.

We now know the surface of Mars in much greater detail than we do of the ocean floors on our own Earth.

JupiterKid

Yay!! Great to see this thread I started back in its rightful place.

Tongue-in-cheek map of Norn Iron. Rather accurate...

Deja Boo

dball

8 Maps That Will Change How You See The World

https://listverse.com/2019/12/16/8-maps-that-will-change-how-you-see-the-world/

NIMAN

I think that might be incorrect.

greenspurs

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Maybe a wee bit of info about what the maps are about would help ?????

Professor Moriarty

NIMAN wrote: »

I think that might be incorrect.

Ever so slightly. I think Partyjungle might have been partying.

mikhail

greenspurs wrote: »

Maybe a wee bit of info about what the maps are about would help ?????

The regions of water resemble a depiction of a male sexual organ. I hope this comment was helpful to you.

IAMAMORON

Keep up the dick picks !! What a pastime. Forget Crosswords, my new hobbie is searching for Penisalikes on Googlemaps.:):pac::D

greenspurs

NIMAN wrote: »

I think that might be incorrect.

I would agree!

" Alaska is bigger than Texas, California, and Montana combined"

https://www.alaska.org/how-big-is-alaska/texas


:rolleyes:

Pherekydes

Lies, damned lies and maptistics!

greenspurs

mikhail wrote: »

The regions of water resemble a depiction of a male sexual organ. I hope this comment was helpful to you.

Does it say more about you , or me, that I didn't spot that, but you did !! :pac: :P

BarryD2

greenspurs wrote: »

I would agree!

" Alaska is bigger than Texas, California, and Montana combined"

https://www.alaska.org/how-big-is-alaska/texas


:rolleyes:

Maybe, but hardly bigger than the rest of the USA and Russia combined! Not helped by the Mercator projection favoured by Google etc., which distorts area the further from the equator.