Interesting Maps

blackwhite · 12-03-2020 1:04am

dan1895 wrote: »

Yes and it's wrong depending on how you define most popular. "Soccer" is the most participated sport in Ireland.

Depends on definition

Association football has most participants, but less registered players (5-a-side/social games accounting for the difference).
Gaelic football doesn’t really have a “social” form

Attendances has GAA as clear winner

TV tend to have the national soccer team as the best draw - although that’s not been as clear-cut in recent years with both rugby and GAA topping the viewing figures in certain years

Deja Boo · 14-03-2020 10:14am

http://www.personalworldmap.org/

simple yet interesting interactive (with flash) personal world and travel time map.
...choose the center of your world and watch it go, then you can follow instructions on top

for travel options, then choose different 'spaces' for diffferent effects (it's helpful to zoom in)

Wayne Jarvis · 14-03-2020 12:04pm

If time travel was real we could just hop in our DeLoreans and use this handy map as a guide for when we want to go.

Wayne Jarvis · 14-03-2020 12:07pm

From Cartographer Macdonal Gill. He did cartoon style Maps with a bit of humour to them. He's worth checking out for map enthusiasts. His map of the London Country Bus Service from 1928

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Charles Babbage · 14-03-2020 2:14pm

Google traffic map for Rome, Saturday afternoon

ohnonotgmail · 15-03-2020 7:20pm

Guy Person wrote: »

If time travel was real we could just hop in our DeLoreans and use this handy map as a guide for when we want to go.

That would make for an interesting game of mornington crescent

mzungu · 15-03-2020 9:30pm

Most popular surnames in Europe.

Ted_YNWA · 15-03-2020 9:36pm

Hans Gruber was Austrian :eek:

That's Die Hard ruined for me now.

Wayne Jarvis · 15-03-2020 10:15pm

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Hans Gruber was Austrian :eek:

That's Die Hard ruined for me now.

Nothing ruins Die Hard. I also now have an excuse to post this kind of but not really map of what floor all the bad guys in Die Hard died on.

endacl · 15-03-2020 10:15pm

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Hans Gruber was Austrian :eek:

That's Die Hard ruined for me now.

I’ve never seen Die Hard. I’ve seen all the constituent bits of Die Hard, but not in order. One of those movies I’ve always caught the last bit of, had to go do something else after the first bit, or a mix of the two.

Right. Back to maps...

Seth Brundle · 15-03-2020 10:23pm

Nakatomi Plaza aka Fox Plaza in Century City, Los Angeles, California...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Plaza_(Los_Angeles)#/map/0

Junkyard Tom · 16-03-2020 2:31am

Guy Person wrote: »

If time travel was real...

'I don't know why people from the future are trying to kill me, I'm just a struggling artist'!

Adolf Hitler.

Quantum Erasure · 17-03-2020 5:36am

Map of Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe,

The Cameroon line is a 1,600 km (990 mi) chain of volcanoes. It includes islands in the Gulf of Guinea and mountains that extend along the border region of eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon, from Mount Cameroon on the Gulf of Guinea north and east towards Lake Chad.

the Cameroon line consists of six offshore volcanic swells that have formed islands or seamounts.

The southernmost in the chain is the Equatorial Guinean island of Annobón, also known as Pagalu, with an area of about 17.5 km2 (6.8 sq mi)

São Tomé Island is 854 km2 (330 sq mi) in area, lying almost on the equator. The entire island is a massive shield volcano which rises from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, over 3,000 m (10,000 ft) below sea level, and reaches 2,024 m (6,640 ft) above sea level

Príncipe is the smaller of the two major islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, with an area of 136 km2 (53 sq mi) The island is surrounded by several smaller islands. As with São Tomé, the island has always been isolated from the mainland and therefore has many unique species of plants and animals.

Bioko (part of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea) is just 32 km (20 mi) off the coast of Cameroon, on the continental shelf. The island used to be the end of a peninsula attached to the mainland, but was cut off when sea levels rose 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age. With an area of 2,017 km2 (779 sq mi) it is the largest island in the Cameroon line, and the site of Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea

Two large seamounts lie between São Tomé and Príncipe, and between Principe and Bioko.

greenspurs · 17-03-2020 8:25am

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Map of Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe,

The Cameroon line is a 1,600 km (990 mi) chain of volcanoes. It includes islands in the Gulf of Guinea and mountains that extend along the border region of eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon, from Mount Cameroon on the Gulf of Guinea north and east towards Lake Chad.

the Cameroon line consists of six offshore volcanic swells that have formed islands or seamounts.

The southernmost in the chain is the Equatorial Guinean island of Annobón, also known as Pagalu, with an area of about 17.5 km2 (6.8 sq mi)

São Tomé Island is 854 km2 (330 sq mi) in area, lying almost on the equator. The entire island is a massive shield volcano which rises from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, over 3,000 m (10,000 ft) below sea level, and reaches 2,024 m (6,640 ft) above sea level

Príncipe is the smaller of the two major islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, with an area of 136 km2 (53 sq mi) The island is surrounded by several smaller islands. As with São Tomé, the island has always been isolated from the mainland and therefore has many unique species of plants and animals.

Bioko (part of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea) is just 32 km (20 mi) off the coast of Cameroon, on the continental shelf. The island used to be the end of a peninsula attached to the mainland, but was cut off when sea levels rose 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age. With an area of 2,017 km2 (779 sq mi) it is the largest island in the Cameroon line, and the site of Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea

Two large seamounts lie between São Tomé and Príncipe, and between Principe and Bioko.

And ?

mikhail · 17-03-2020 9:46am

greenspurs wrote: »

And ?

I guess it's a nice illustration of a the combination of a volcanic hotspot and tectonic plate movement. A similar process made the Galapagos, the Azores, and also the Hawaiian islands. That's why they are kind of strewn along a line.

17-03-2020 10:21am

The Mountains of Kong

A non-existent mountain range on maps of Africa from 1798 through to the late 1880s

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Ted_YNWA · 17-03-2020 3:23pm

I love the vague "Unknown Parts" on it.

mzungu · 17-03-2020 4:39pm

Seasons on earth.

Westernyelp · 17-03-2020 6:45pm

^^ Mad how western Europe is so protected from the white stuff

BonnieSituation · 17-03-2020 6:49pm

Westernyelp wrote: »

^^ Mad how western Europe is so protected from the white stuff

Gotta love the Gulf Stream.

Capt'n Midnight · 17-03-2020 7:01pm

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Gotta love the Gulf Stream.

Living downwind of an ocean does most of the work of keeping the extreme cold away.

cnocbui · 17-03-2020 7:08pm

We are at the same latitude as Hudson Bay in Canada, which is thick with Polar bears. If it weren't for the gulf stream...

Suckler · 18-03-2020 4:49am

cnocbui wrote: »

We are at the same latitude as Hudson Bay in Canada, which is thick with Polar bears. If it weren't for the gulf stream...

Yet people will still p1ss and moan about Irish weather being the worst. The novelty of extremes of cold & hot weather wear thin quite quick.

Wayne Jarvis · 18-03-2020 8:42am

Freedom of press the world over from 2017

18-03-2020 8:43am

^^ Fascinating

Wayne Jarvis · 18-03-2020 8:47am

How Georgians see Europe
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How Lithuanians see Europe

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And finally how the Irish see Europe

purplepanda · 18-03-2020 1:22pm

Britain after the Roman Empire in maps.

http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/maps/425_kingdoms.html

Tell me how · 18-03-2020 3:01pm

Guy Person wrote: »

Freedom of press the world over from 2017

Since the whole Brexit thing showed allegiances, I would suggest the UK should maybe be coloured orange.

ohnonotgmail · 18-03-2020 3:06pm

Guy Person wrote: »

How Lithuanians see Europe

what is the cahors thing for bulgaria about?

Oops! · 18-03-2020 3:09pm

Popular with tourists i think...

iamstop · 18-03-2020 5:26pm

Known Covid cases per million ppl

Junkyard Tom · 18-03-2020 8:04pm

Guy Person wrote: »

Freedom of press the world over from 2017

It's one of those weird ones where freedom of press could also be considered freedom to lie to the population. I guess the score is calculated by assessing the freedom of the press to challenge authority and expose corruption?

I remember listening to some lecture or other and, it was said, the Soviets were very impressed by how narrow the political spectrum was in the US when the US didn't have the same tools as the Soviets (mass murder and gulags) to influence behaviour/opinions.

NewSigGuy · 19-03-2020 12:50am

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

A tour guide I met at the Udvar Hazey centre (Smithsonian) at Dulles last Dec told us about the time when he was 5 and allowed on the flightdeck on the airliner he was on, the pilot signed has pass card. That pilot was one of the Wright brothers.... I forget which one he said but crazy to think of the connection

I think that was a wind up, neither of the Wright brothers flew an aircraft after 1918.

cnocbui · 19-03-2020 11:10am

NewSigGuy wrote: »

I think that was a wind up, neither of the Wright brothers flew an aircraft after 1918.

It's a shame how little credit Richard Pearse, a New Zealand farmer, gets for flying and landing a powered plane, nine months before the Wright brothers.

ohnonotgmail · 19-03-2020 11:54am

NewSigGuy wrote: »

I think that was a wind up, neither of the Wright brothers flew an aircraft after 1918.

especially wilbur who was dead by 1912.

mzungu · 19-03-2020 9:27pm

More people live inside this circle than outside of it.

IAMAMORON · 19-03-2020 11:07pm

Redneck Reject71 · 19-03-2020 11:13pm

iamstop wrote: »

Known Covid cases per million ppl

Washinton is very damp,wonder if that is why it's so high?As to the more drier arid areas like Texas/Mexico which are fairly low.

IAMAMORON · 19-03-2020 11:17pm

The Dublin functional conurbation. It is official, Dundalk and Gorey are now suburbs of Dublin, welcome to big schmoke lads.

Honorable mentions to Borris í gContae Laois. You are culchies no more, sorry.

https://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/mapping-the-true-extent-of-dublins-functional-urban-region-what-the-best-available-evidence-tells-us/

The spatial extent of Dublin’s functional urban region or commuting hinterland has served as a key indicator and point of discussion on the ‘sprawl’ of Dublin and extent of uncontrolled urban expansion over the Celtic tiger period. The location of unfinished and partially vacant housing estates in some locations suggests that private developers significantly overestimated the extent of the ‘Dublin market’. The analysis below serves to map the spatial extent of the Dublin functional urban region and identifies the share of the Dublin workforce commuting from the Mid-East Region (Kildare, Meath and Wicklow) and beyond.

Bobblehats · 19-03-2020 11:25pm

mzungu wrote: »

More people live inside this circle than outside of it

Look at little Java there. 150 odd million alone

Victor · 20-03-2020 12:04am

Redneck Reject71 wrote: »

Washinton is very damp,wonder if that is why it's so high?As to the more drier arid areas like Texas/Mexico which are fairly low.

No. It is high because it was one of the first places with an infection.

There is concern that summer temperatures won't affect it.

retalivity · 20-03-2020 12:13am

Victor wrote: »

No. It is high because it was one of the first places with an infection.

There is concern that summer temperatures won't affect it.

It also has one of the highest asian populations in the US, particularly chinese, along with california. Pretty sure there are/were direct flights between seattle and mainland china, running right up theough february

BonnieSituation · 20-03-2020 12:23am

Victor wrote: »

No. It is high because it was one of the first places with an infection.

There is concern that summer temperatures won't affect it.

retalivity wrote: »

It also has one of the highest asian populations in the US, particularly chinese, along with california. Pretty sure there are/were direct flights between seattle and mainland china, running right up theough february

And lots of old people. It ravaged nursing homes before they even knew they had a problem.

cnocbui · 20-03-2020 12:39am

Redneck Reject71 wrote: »

Washinton is very damp,wonder if that is why it's so high?As to the more drier arid areas like Texas/Mexico which are fairly low.

That is probably one reason. I have seen one medical expert comment on the time droplets on surfaces would be infectious for, when questioned, and he said probably for as long as they were still moist, and not for very long after they had dried up. Most transmission is person to person via aerial droplets so heat is probably not going to be the saviour a lot of people are hoping for.

endacl · 20-03-2020 1:25am

All from here. Lots of cool stuff: https://blazepress.com/2014/07/50-incredible-maps-will-change-see-world/

Map of Pangea with current International borders

Countries around the world that Britain has not invaded or occupied

World colonization since 1492.

roosterman71 · 20-03-2020 6:02pm

Coronavirus Lockdown - darker the colour, deeper the lockdown

Source: https://twitter.com/BenQuinn75/status/1241002696666157057?s=20

JupiterKid · 24-03-2020 7:52pm

Highest level of educational attainment among 30-34 year olds in Europe by NUTS 2 Region, 2017

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Capt'n Midnight · 24-03-2020 10:02pm

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European Wind Farms

retalivity · 24-03-2020 10:07pm

JupiterKid wrote: »

Highest level of educational attainment among 30-34 year olds in Europe by NUTS 2 Region, 2017

Interesting, wtf is going on with the south of spain?

IAMAMORON · 25-03-2020 12:20am

retalivity wrote: »

Interesting, wtf is going on with the south of spain?

In fairness there is a certain level of deception to the map. On intial inspection you might look at Germany and note that they are not going to College. But their secondary school finishes at 21. Then you go to hardcore German University. Apprenticeships commence around 16. Education continues for skills but industry in Germany is vastly diverse compared to here.

Spain's main universities are in Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid. I am sure there is third level in Seville but I have never heard of Malaga university? There was not much going on in the Costas before the 1950's, then it just became a big Tourist destination. The Spanish Civil war only ended in 1939 and the losing belligerents were not really picked up off the floor. They were straight into WW2 and the south basically got spat on. It did not really recover until the 80's. Without tourism there was not a lot going on in the South of Spain industry wise.

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