Maps are great.
Here are some maps you may not have seen before.

From https://www.boredpanda.com/people-share-unique-interesting-maps/

Antarctic without the ice. I thought it was bigger than this.

Map of the whole United States.

Map of the whole of France.

Africa population density.

Europe in 16,000 BC

The most spoken language in each US state other than English or Spanish.

The world according to Google Street View.

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mollwollfumble said:

Maps are great.
Here are some maps you may not have seen before.

Love this one.

party_pants said:

mollwollfumble said:

Maps are great.
Here are some maps you may not have seen before.

Love this one.

That’s a good one.

Peak Warming Man said:

party_pants said:

mollwollfumble said:

Maps are great.
Here are some maps you may not have seen before.

Love this one.

That’s a good one.

Reminds me of the story of the yank in a country pub in Australia talking to a local who was saying that he had a few acres just out of town where he ran a few cattle and grew some vegetables.
The yank said on his ranch in Texas he could get on his horse at sunup, ride all day and he’d still be on his property at sundown, the local said that he used to have a horse like that once.

Peak Warming Man said:

Peak Warming Man said:

party_pants said:

Love this one.

That’s a good one.

Reminds me of the story of the yank in a country pub in Australia talking to a local who was saying that he had a few acres just out of town where he ran a few cattle and grew some vegetables.
The yank said on his ranch in Texas he could get on his horse at sunup, ride all day and he’d still be on his property at sundown, the local said that he used to have a horse like that once.

chuckle

party_pants said:

mollwollfumble said:

Maps are great.
Here are some maps you may not have seen before.

Love this one.

Me too. Is it accurate? Or is it just fun.

I’ve got a great book about the archaeology of Doggerland.

The weird thing about that map of Turkey is that appears to deny the existence of Kurdistan.

buffy said:

party_pants said:

mollwollfumble said:

Maps are great.
Here are some maps you may not have seen before.

Love this one.

Me too. Is it accurate? Or is it just fun.

Reasonably accurate. I think Japan is a bit distorted in this image, it is a bit more spread out, this map seems to squish them a bit to fit.

If you want to have a play around comparing the size of countries try this one:

thetruesize.com – you type in the name of a country, then the map highlights it and you can drag it aound the map and compare it to other countries.

dv said:

I’ve got a great book about the archaeology of Doggerland.

The weird thing about that map of Turkey is that appears to deny the existence of Kurdistan.

Yeah, wasn’t impressed with the Turkey one. Liked all the others.

I didn’t even know that the archaeology of Doggerland was a thing.

Must be a huge amount of buried stuff in the coastal regions of the World.

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

I’ve got a great book about the archaeology of Doggerland.

The weird thing about that map of Turkey is that appears to deny the existence of Kurdistan.

Yeah, wasn’t impressed with the Turkey one. Liked all the others.

I didn’t even know that the archaeology of Doggerland was a thing.

Must be a huge amount of buried stuff in the coastal regions of the World.

They’ve found quite a lot of artefacts, mainly through dredging on Dogger Bank. It was occupied for a long time. I sometimes wonder about the last people to leave the area.

There’s been a bit of similar work in the Arafura.

party_pants said:

buffy said:

party_pants said:

Love this one.

Me too. Is it accurate? Or is it just fun.

Reasonably accurate. I think Japan is a bit distorted in this image, it is a bit more spread out, this map seems to squish them a bit to fit.

If you want to have a play around comparing the size of countries try this one:

thetruesize.com – you type in the name of a country, then the map highlights it and you can drag it aound the map and compare it to other countries.

Always good to chuck Switzerland on the map as then you can see why we get more snow than Switzerland.

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

I’ve got a great book about the archaeology of Doggerland.

The weird thing about that map of Turkey is that appears to deny the existence of Kurdistan.

Yeah, wasn’t impressed with the Turkey one. Liked all the others.

I didn’t even know that the archaeology of Doggerland was a thing.

Must be a huge amount of buried stuff in the coastal regions of the World.

They’ve found quite a lot of artefacts, mainly through dredging on Dogger Bank. It was occupied for a long time. I sometimes wonder about the last people to leave the area.

Look up the North Sea tsunami. It was from an undersea slide off Norway, and washed straight over the last of Doggerland.

So Nova Scotia and Scotland do go together.

sarahs mum said:

So Nova Scotia and Scotland do go together.

sarahs mum said:

!!

So Nova Scotia and Scotland do go together.

Which makes sense

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

!!

So Nova Scotia and Scotland do go together.

Which makes sense

it’s just like home.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

!!

So Nova Scotia and Scotland do go together.

Which makes sense

it’s just like home.

Now prove that New York was connected to York

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

Which makes sense

it’s just like home.

Now prove that New York was connected to York

or Amsterdam.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

it’s just like home.

Now prove that New York was connected to York

or Amsterdam.

Or ‘Rotterdam or anywhere
Liverpool or Rome
‘Cause Rotterdam is anywhere ‘

dv said:

I’ve got a great book about the archaeology of Doggerland.

The weird thing about that map of Turkey is that appears to deny the existence of Kurdistan.

That’s the “everyone here wants to live in Istanbul” region, isn’t it?

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

I’ve got a great book about the archaeology of Doggerland.

The weird thing about that map of Turkey is that appears to deny the existence of Kurdistan.

That’s the “everyone here wants to live in Istanbul” region, isn’t it?

It’s the Everyone Wants Independence from Istanbul region.

Re the Antarctica without ice map. Why isnt this the default? Why is the ice even put there in the first place? Even without what we are doing to the planet and the disappearing ice sheets the seasonal change of ice would make maps only kinda sorta right for half the year.

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

Re the Antarctica without ice map. Why isnt this the default? Why is the ice even put there in the first place? Even without what we are doing to the planet and the disappearing ice sheets the seasonal change of ice would make maps only kinda sorta right for half the year.

can you imagine the confusion, you’re sailing merrily along thinking Antarctica is miles away when BANG, you hit the ice shelf.

Bogsnorkler said:

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

Re the Antarctica without ice map. Why isnt this the default? Why is the ice even put there in the first place? Even without what we are doing to the planet and the disappearing ice sheets the seasonal change of ice would make maps only kinda sorta right for half the year.

can you imagine the confusion, you’re sailing merrily along thinking Antarctica is miles away when BANG, you hit the ice shelf.

I dunno. Sure you’ll hit ice but at the same time yeah Antarctica a actually is kilometres away.

Do they do this for the North pole?

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

Bogsnorkler said:

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

Re the Antarctica without ice map. Why isnt this the default? Why is the ice even put there in the first place? Even without what we are doing to the planet and the disappearing ice sheets the seasonal change of ice would make maps only kinda sorta right for half the year.

can you imagine the confusion, you’re sailing merrily along thinking Antarctica is miles away when BANG, you hit the ice shelf.

I dunno. Sure you’ll hit ice but at the same time yeah Antarctica a actually is kilometres away.

Do they do this for the North pole?

they do just the ice there.

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

Bogsnorkler said:

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

Re the Antarctica without ice map. Why isnt this the default? Why is the ice even put there in the first place? Even without what we are doing to the planet and the disappearing ice sheets the seasonal change of ice would make maps only kinda sorta right for half the year.

can you imagine the confusion, you’re sailing merrily along thinking Antarctica is miles away when BANG, you hit the ice shelf.

I dunno. Sure you’ll hit ice but at the same time yeah Antarctica a actually is kilometres away.

Do they do this for the North pole?

I met an artist some years back who was working alongside some guys using a torpedo shaped instrument that could get in under the ice and map the true shore. I think the technology has only been around a while.

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

Bogsnorkler said:

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

Re the Antarctica without ice map. Why isnt this the default? Why is the ice even put there in the first place? Even without what we are doing to the planet and the disappearing ice sheets the seasonal change of ice would make maps only kinda sorta right for half the year.

can you imagine the confusion, you’re sailing merrily along thinking Antarctica is miles away when BANG, you hit the ice shelf.

I dunno. Sure you’ll hit ice but at the same time yeah Antarctica a actually is kilometres away.

Do they do this for the North pole?

I met an artist some years back who was working alongside some guys using a torpedo shaped instrument that could get in under the ice and map the true shore. I think the technology has only been around a while.

Canadian.

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

Re the Antarctica without ice map. Why isnt this the default? Why is the ice even put there in the first place? Even without what we are doing to the planet and the disappearing ice sheets the seasonal change of ice would make maps only kinda sorta right for half the year.

You’ve got us there.

Then again even the rock is transient, on a longer timescale.

dv said:

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

Re the Antarctica without ice map. Why isnt this the default? Why is the ice even put there in the first place? Even without what we are doing to the planet and the disappearing ice sheets the seasonal change of ice would make maps only kinda sorta right for half the year.

You’ve got us there.

Then again even the rock is transient, on a longer timescale.

Fair point. But at that point we end up not having a map at all right?

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

dv said:

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

Re the Antarctica without ice map. Why isnt this the default? Why is the ice even put there in the first place? Even without what we are doing to the planet and the disappearing ice sheets the seasonal change of ice would make maps only kinda sorta right for half the year.

You’ve got us there.

Then again even the rock is transient, on a longer timescale.

Fair point. But at that point we end up not having a map at all right?

I suppose it depends on how long you expect the map to exist for. Most maps that people refer to these days would be in software form so as long as the ice sheet status is regularly updated it won’t be a problem.

dv said:

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

dv said:

You’ve got us there.

Then again even the rock is transient, on a longer timescale.

Fair point. But at that point we end up not having a map at all right?

I suppose it depends on how long you expect the map to exist for. Most maps that people refer to these days would be in software form so as long as the ice sheet status is regularly updated it won’t be a problem.

Again fair point I guess