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Interesting Maps

JupiterKid · 2019-12-04 00:32:28

I have had a huge interest in maps and geography since I was a very small child - I am generally fascinated with the way places and routes are related to each other in spatial terms, and I could pore over a good map for ages. So here’s a little thread on maps that I find interesting and fascinating - some represent data,…

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#852 13-05-2020 9:11pm

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The migration of some species is truly fascinating...

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#853 13-05-2020 9:13pm

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https://twitter.com/criostoirmccaba/status/1260500185270140929?s=21

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#854 14-05-2020 12:38am

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^^^

The two maps were likely generated by different software.

Why are two different colour scales used?

Why does the 1841 map use darker green colours for the same values?

Why does the 1841 map have county and (some) lake boundaries shown in black, thereby making the overall colour darker?

Why are all the numbers rounded off? This can cause counties to jump from one category to the next, e.g. Kilkenny's current population is about 99,000, but it is shown in the over 100,000 category.

Might the map creator have an agenda?

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#855 14-05-2020 8:16am

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Victor wrote: »

^^^

The two maps were likely generated by different software.

Why are two different colour scales used?

Why does the original use darker green colours for the same values?

Why does the original have county and (some) lake boundaries shown in black, thereby making the overall colour darker?

Why are all the numbers rounded off? This can cause counties to jump from one category to the next, e.g. Kilkenny#s current population is about 99,000, but it is shown in the over 100,000 category.

Might the map creator have an agenda?

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#856 14-05-2020 4:23pm

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A Brief History of British and Irish Languages

https://starkeycomics.com/2019/03/01/a-brief-history-of-british-and-irish-languages/?fbclid=IwAR0qCS9Jv8qEZwYgiIo-23Sp8gpHu6VEXkASydKCp_uiYm-IGJccv1zQoeo

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#857 14-05-2020 4:42pm

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Wasn’t there a dialect called the Iron Language spoken in Ireland in the first half of the first millennium?

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#858 14-05-2020 4:53pm

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Map of WTC after collapse

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#859 14-05-2020 6:26pm

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same, rotated 90 degrees, with annotations, (i was looking to see where WTC 7 was located)

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#860 15-05-2020 4:36pm

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Placenames including droim on logainm.ie

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#861 15-05-2020 4:42pm

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Would that tight cluster be the drumlin belt?

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#862 15-05-2020 4:48pm

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Place names beginning with Meena, I find it interesting how this is localized in Donegal (there are a load more that are not on that map).

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#863 15-05-2020 5:17pm

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Ipso wrote: »

Would that tight cluster be the drumlin belt?

Yes, the word 'drumlin' comes from the word 'droim'.

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#864 15-05-2020 5:21pm

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Quantum Erasure wrote: »

same, rotated 90 degrees, with annotations, (i was looking to see where WTC 7 was located)

So how many buildings actually fell that day?

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#865 15-05-2020 5:33pm

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NIMAN wrote: »

So how many buildings actually fell that day?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_(1973%E2%80%932001)#Destruction

At 9:59 a.m., the South Tower collapsed after burning for approximately 56 minutes. The fire caused steel structural elements, already weakened from the plane's impact, to fail. The North Tower collapsed at 10:28 a.m., after burning for approximately 102 minutes.[154] At 5:20 p.m.[155] on September 11, 2001, 7 World Trade Center began to collapse with the crumbling of the east penthouse; it collapsed completely at 5:21 p.m.[155] owing to uncontrolled fires causing structural failure.[156]

The Marriott World Trade Center hotel was destroyed during the collapse of the two towers. The three remaining buildings in the WTC plaza were extensively damaged by debris and were later demolished.[157] The cleanup and recovery process at the World Trade Center site took eight months.[158] The Deutsche Bank Building across Liberty Street from the World Trade Center complex was later condemned because of the uninhabitable toxic conditions inside; it was deconstructed, with work completed in early 2011.[159][160] The Borough of Manhattan Community College's Fiterman Hall at 30 West Broadway was also condemned owing to extensive damage, and it was demolished and completely rebuilt.[161]

Four on the day - 1 WTC, 2 WTC, 7 WTC, Marriott. Note that many of the buildings were joined together at ground and basement level.

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#866 17-05-2020 2:30am

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not sure if this was posted before (click to enlarge)

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#867 18-05-2020 7:14am

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NIMAN wrote: »

So how many buildings actually fell that day?

fell / Knocked.... etc etc ….

But that's for another forum.... :P

"Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn

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#868 18-05-2020 7:26pm

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I don't know if this has been posted before.
This is the bizarre patchy border between Belgium and the Netherlands at Baarle Hertog, an enclave in Dutch territory (Baarle Nassau for the Dutch). It gets crazier as there are Dutch lands within the Belgian ones

I was there a couple o years ago and of course joke of the place is getting a pic stranding in between the two countries

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171210-europes-strange-border-anomaly

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#869 18-05-2020 7:59pm

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Barna77 wrote: »

I don't know if this has been posted before.
This is the bizarre patchy border between Belgium and the Netherlands at Baarle Hertog,
<snip>

Just the once, but worth posting again

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#870 18-05-2020 10:33pm

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Meander Maps for Imaginary Rivers

From an input curve, the terrain, land plots, side roads, highways, marsh land and mountain peaks are generated and prominent features are named. The map is then weathered and rendered in the style of old US Army Corp of Engineers maps from the 1930s and 40s.

More in the link

https://kottke.org/20/05/meander-maps-for-imaginary-rivers

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#871 18-05-2020 11:38pm

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Route of Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days

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#872 19-05-2020 9:02am

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Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Route of Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days

Great, now I have the theme tune to the 80's cartoon stuck in my head.

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#873 19-05-2020 10:07am

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dan1895 wrote: »

Great, now I have the theme tune to the 80's cartoon stuck in my head.

Great, I went and googled it to see what you were on about, and now it's stuck in my head.

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#874 19-05-2020 11:25am

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Am I remembering it wrong? Wasn't a hot air balloon used at some stage?

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#875 19-05-2020 11:30am

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New Home wrote: »

Am I remembering it wrong? Wasn't a hot air balloon used at some stage?

Not in the book.

But the map seems to bypass Ireland. Didn't he travel from Cobh to Dublin by train?

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#876 19-05-2020 11:31am

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New Home wrote: »

Am I remembering it wrong? Wasn't a hot air balloon used at some stage?

I think that might have been the film, rather than the original Jules Verne book.

Or maybe it was a parody advert I'm thinking of. I'm sure there was one of them too. Fogg and his companion in a balloon, losing height, but some fresh-mints or something kept them afloat.

Or am I crazy?

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#877 19-05-2020 11:33am

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From Wikipedia:

Although a journey by balloon has become one of the images most strongly associated with the story, it does not appear in the book – the idea is proposed in Chapter 32, but dismissed, as it "would have been highly risky and, in any case, impossible." However, the 1956 movie adaptation Around the World in Eighty Days used the balloon idea, and it has now become a part of the mythology of the story, even appearing on book covers. This plot element is reminiscent of Verne's earlier Five Weeks in a Balloon, which first made him a well-known author.

Nothing there about the commercial though.

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#878 19-05-2020 11:35am

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quickbeam wrote: »

From Wikipedia:

Nothing there about the commercial though.

There used to be some sort of snacks named after Phileas Fogg, iirc. Crisps or corn snacks of some description, I think.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phileas_Fogg_snacks

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#879 19-05-2020 11:43am

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quickbeam wrote: »

I think that might have been the film, rather than the original Jules Verne book.

Or maybe it was a parody advert I'm thinking of. I'm sure there was one of them too. Fogg and his companion in a balloon, losing height, but some fresh-mints or something kept them afloat.

Or am I crazy?

There was also a range of snacks called Phineas Fogg, might have been for them. With their garlic bread snacks they were "exotic" & "European", and so naturally failed in the UK.

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#880 19-05-2020 11:47am

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fixXxer wrote: »

Sorry everyone. Work attacks when we least expect it. I will be around for the contest at 1300 all going well.

OK thanks for letting us know....

Wrong thread perhaps?

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#881 19-05-2020 2:49pm

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El Weirdo wrote: »

There used to be some sort of snacks named after Phileas Fogg, iirc. Crisps or corn snacks of some description, I think.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phileas_Fogg_snacks

I remember those Tortillas from years back. They were good.

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#882 19-05-2020 6:41pm

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Antarctica!

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#883 19-05-2020 7:49pm

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Sorry if posted before

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#884 19-05-2020 7:58pm

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Italians joke about themselves

What are Slovakians issue with the Scots?

Sweds the punchline of Scandanvia it seems

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#885 19-05-2020 8:02pm

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Shedite27 wrote: »

What are Slovakians Hungarians issue with the Scots?

Apparently Hungarians make lots of stingy Scotsman Jokes

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#886 19-05-2020 8:18pm

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3 of belgium's 4 neighbours joke about belgium.

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#887 19-05-2020 8:48pm

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Mujo and Haso still going strong in the Balkans

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#888 19-05-2020 9:05pm

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El Weirdo wrote: »

There used to be some sort of snacks named after Phileas Fogg, iirc. Crisps or corn snacks of some description, I think.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phileas_Fogg_snacks

I remember getting these in the dart station in bray as a young lad. They burned the puss off me but I couldn't get enough of them.

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#889 19-05-2020 11:52pm

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El Weirdo wrote: »

Not in the book.

But the map seems to bypass Ireland. Didn't he travel from Cobh to Dublin by train?

Yeah to catch the steam packet to Liverpool iirc.

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#890 19-05-2020 11:53pm

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normanoffside wrote: »

Sorry if posted before

In shocking news, Belarusians have no sense of humour.

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#891 20-05-2020 12:32am

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Is that a Scottish flag I see in Hungary or am I just untrained in flag science?

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#892 20-05-2020 12:37am

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kowloon wrote: »

Is that a Scottish flag I see in Hungary or am I just untrained in flag science?

Yes and Vexillology.

Quoted above:

normanoffside wrote: »

Apparently Hungarians make lots of stingy Scotsman Jokes

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#893 20-05-2020 12:39am

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Its interesting how maps change over time. This is the lithuanian polish common wealth.

Below is Prussia (its complicated)

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#894 20-05-2020 12:57am

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BonnieSituation wrote: »

Yes and Vexillology.

I totally knew that. I'm dead smart and know a lot about wordology.

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#895 20-05-2020 7:02am

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Vexillology. A new word for me, thanks very much. I'm now down the rabbit hole of origins and derivations that has led me to Roman military units and French pharmacists' measures.

I'm older than Minecraft goats.

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#896 20-05-2020 9:59am

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OldGoat wrote: »

Vexillology. A new word for me, thanks very much. I'm now down the rabbit hole of origins and derivations that has led me to Roman military units and French pharmacists' measures.

A goat after my own heart.

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#897 20-05-2020 10:16am

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kowloon wrote: »

I totally knew that. I'm dead smart and know a lot about wordology.

Starter than me , a new one for me . Vexed now

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#898 20-05-2020 12:01pm

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OldGoat wrote: »

Vexillology. A new word for me, thanks very much. I'm now down the rabbit hole of origins and derivations that has led me to Roman military units and French pharmacists' measures.

I like going on Wikipedia adventures, but very little of what I take in stays there for long.

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#899 20-05-2020 12:04pm

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kowloon wrote: »

I like going on Wikipedia adventures, but very little of what I take in stays there for long.

"Open in new tab"

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Where Google Street view is available.

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