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auspicious wrote: »Just an aside. Your brain doesn't process visuals while the eyes are moving. It just fills in the blanks. When your eyes are moving, you're blind.
I think it's the opposite, though we could be talking about either end of the seeing process. the eyeball can't see anything that it stationary relative to itself. but our eyr compensates by being constantly in motion itself. they did an experiment where they glued a target to a contact lens and it disappeared.
anyway, back to maps
Peters projection accurately shows different countries’ relative sizes. Although it distorts countries’ shapes, this way of drawing a world map avoids exaggerating the size of developed nations in Europe and North America and reducing the size of less developed countries in Asia, Africa and South America.0 -
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To add fuel to the fire, that place is in barony of Fartullagh (Fir Thulach).Imagine the scene, a few young fellas are a bit boisterous outside the chipper at 3am on a Saturday and they get done by a garda, who demands their details and someone has to admit to being from here:Clownstownhttps://www.logainm.ie/en/52017 He's in trouble whether the garda believes him or not.
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I think it's the opposite, though we could be talking about either end of the seeing process. the eyeball can't see anything that it stationary relative to itself. but our eyr compensates by being constantly in motion itself. they did an experiment where they glued a target to a contact lens and it disappeared.
anyway, back to maps
Peters projection accurately shows different countries’ relative sizes. Although it distorts countries’ shapes, this way of drawing a world map avoids exaggerating the size of developed nations in Europe and North America and reducing the size of less developed countries in Asia, Africa and South America.
Human's are weird though.
So for all the pros of Peters it looks weird for us so it will never be used by lay people. And in a GIS/Geomatic context, it never is.
I was once in a meeting and one of the actuaries put his hand up and queried "why does Ireland look weird?" on a map that our UK team were presenting.
And it was an ever so slight distortion that was generally imperceptible, but noticeable in the context of how maps were presented in our office.
They used a different projection than he was used to from my team so it threw him (and tbh myself off). It was very distracting.0 -
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I think it's the opposite, though we could be talking about either end of the seeing process. the eyeball can't see anything that it stationary relative to itself. but our eyr compensates by being constantly in motion itself. they did an experiment where they glued a target to a contact lens and it disappeared.
anyway, back to maps
Peters projection accurately shows different countries’ relative sizes. Although it distorts countries’ shapes, this way of drawing a world map avoids exaggerating the size of developed nations in Europe and North America and reducing the size of less developed countries in Asia, Africa and South America.
Would thinking that’s the reason the map is currently drawn as it is, is tinfoil hat territory?0 -
ReginaldSmythV wrote: »Would thinking that’s the reason the map is currently drawn as it is, is tinfoil hat territory?
Representing the surface of a sphere as a 2d map is quite a difficult thing to do. All the different projections are trade-offs between scale, geometry or legibility.
I quite like the Dymaxion map, scale and geometry are pretty consistent, but legibility suffers (Oceans are cut up)
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The most extreme example of this I have seen recently was a Flight Radar track of a plane flying from Santiago in Chile to Auckland NZ. They head SW down the coast, headed for Antarctica and get fairly close, before 'curving' away up to NZ.
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Did you know that Ireland looks like a Koala that's drivng a car and has turned it's head to look back at something it's just passed?
Probably a couple young female koalas in short skirts.
Thought you didn't.
Someone pointed out to me once that the top of Wales is a person in a hat pointing at wexford, and now that's all I see in the weather forecast
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The map below shows the top tourist attraction based on the autocompleted Google answer to the question “What to see in…?” each of the European countries.
Just keep in mind Google alters its results based on user location, so if you do a similar search you may see slightly different results.
See the full list below:
Albania: Albanian Riviera
Algeria: Notre Dame d’Afrique
Andorra: Vallnord
Armenia: Geghard
Austria: Schönbrunn Palace
Azerbaijan: Maiden Tower
Belarus: Mir Castle Complex
Belgium: Grand Place
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Stari Most
Bulgaria: Rila Monastery
Croatia: Plitvice Lakes National Park
Cyprus: Kykkos Monastery
Czech Republic: Charles Bridge
Denmark: Tivoli Gardens
Estonia: Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Finland: Suomenlinna
France: Eiffel Tower
Georgia: Narikala
Germany: Neuschwanstein Castle
Greece: Acropolis of Athens
Hungary: Buda Castle
Iceland: Blue Lagoon
Iran: Naqsh-e Jahan Square
Iraq: National Museum of Iraq
Ireland: Cliffs of Moher
Israel: Sea of Galilee
Italy: Colosseum
Jordan: Petra
Kazakhstan: Ascension Cathedral
Kosovo: Visoki Dečani
Latvia: Freedom Monument
Lebanon: Jeita Grotto
Liechtenstein: Vaduz Castle
Lithuania: Hill of Crosses
Luxembourg: Bock
Macedonia: Church of St. John
Malta: Ħaġar Qim
Moldova: Ștefan cel Mare Central Park
Monaco: Oceanographic Museum
Morocco: Atlas Mountains
Montenegro: Lake Skadar
Netherlands: Rijksmuseum
Norway: Oslofjord
Poland: Auschwitz
Portugal: Belém Tower
Romania: Peleș Castle
Russia: Kremlin
San Marino: Guaita
Saudi Arabia: Al-Masjid an-Nabawi
Serbia: Belgrade Fortress
Slovakia: Devin Castle
Slovenia: Lake Bled
Spain: Sagrada Família
Sweden: Vasa Museum
Switzerland: Swiss Alps
Syria: Umayyad Mosque
Tunisia: Bardo National Museum
Turkey: Hagia Sophia
Turkmenistan: Neutrality Monument
Vatican: Vatican Museums
United Kingdom: Tower of London
Ukraine: Kiev Pechersk Lavra0 -
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https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/195:_Map_of_the_Internet
All those green blocks were allocated a long time ago
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And yet people in this country think that Charlestown or Cahir or Edgeworthstown are the equivalent and deserve as much investment on infrastructure.JupiterKid wrote: »Percentage of each European country whose population resides in the metro area of their capital cities.
Ireland stands out very clearly here...
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Apologies for bringing the thread back a week, but seeing as this comment generated a bit of discussion, it's worth recommending Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin here. He does go in a hot-air balloon specifically to make the point that a hot-air balloon trip was an invention of the film (from 1:41 below; I don't know why it won't autostart there)Am I remembering it wrong? Wasn't a hot air balloon used at some stage?
It's a fantastic travelogue - and at this stage, as it was filmed in 1988, it's a time capsule as well, particularly when going through China.
He doesn't go Cobh-Dublin in it though...
By way of obligi-map, here's Fogg's fictional journey (including Cobh-Dublin) and Palin's real one -
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