It's #holiday time! If you are planning to go to #Italy this #wine #map will come in handy... Source. This map took a long time to create. The person in charge of counting sheep kept falling asleep. Charming #map by @JakubMarian shows the most common street names across Europe. Surprise: No royal references in #England! Maps Daily. Top Names by U.S. State (2016) #USA. This is a gorgeous #map. Not sure how this can be helpful to me though. Vertical distance to sea level in #Europe. Another perspective on the world. Distance to the sea (the more black, the further away is the sea). *****Stats, Maps n Pix: What Percent Golf Course is Your Area? There has been a fairly long-running debate in the UK media about the extent to which golf courses cover the landscape.
I've been working on a related topic recently, so when Ordnance Survey last week released an open dataset containing golf course coverage I thought I'd have a go at answering the question myself. The answer I arrived at was that Great Britain is about 0.54% golf course - or about 1,256 square kilometres (about the same area as the whole of Greater Manchester). The local authority with the largest area of golf courses is Woking in Surrey, at 10.74%. I originally calculated it at just over 7% but I had to make some edits due to the number of courses that straddle the local authority boundary and weren't being included.
I've done the calculation a couple of times and also manually so I'm sure it's pretty accurate. Why am I doing this? I've also done some summary statistics for Great Britain and the different countries within it. #Map shows naming convention of currencies. Article explains how they were named. Dollar = mining valley in Czechia. Map of Europe by geotagged tweets (people tweet from highways a lot, and from ferries) [source. Map of every public sauna in Finland. It's easy to reach a #library in #Manhattan but in the #urbansprawl of #Houston not so much... Great concept. Another great #map of UK Election margin swing from @nytimes. #Map: colour of post boxes. Born in a yellow box nation I put my letters in the yellow recycling bins in Australia. First hay fever map of Britain offers some relief to sufferers.
Sufferers could have relief from runny noses, sneezing and itchy eyes as scientists have developed the first ever hay fever map of Britain.
The new, highly-detailed maps of the UK contain the location of key plants and trees known to produce pollen that triggers allergies and asthma. The maps, produced at the University of Exeter in collaboration with the Met Office, may help acute hay fever or asthma sufferers decide where to live or which areas to avoid at peak times when pollen is released. The study records areas where plants which hay fever sufferers are most likely to be sensitive to are most prevalent, including grasses, trees and plants such as birch, alder, oak and nettle.
3D-Mapping Denali and the Alaska Range - American Geographical Society. “This Denali panorama was inspired by Austrian landscape panoramist and cartographer Heinrich Berann.
Airey's #Railway #Map of #Scotland shows the number of #train lines (and #stations!) in 1875 #nationaltrainday. #French #cheese map. *****To Map A Mockinbird (To Kill Mockingbird) Modern classics don't come any more classic, or more modern, than To Kill a Mockingbird.
Told from the naive perspective of a small girl, this tale of institutionalised racism in a small Southern town in the 1930s still resonates in today's America — and beyond. First published in 1960, it has sold over 40 million copies worldwide. In 2009, Mockingbird was voted "most inspirational book ever," beating the Bible into second place. The story is set in Maycomb, a fictionalised version of author Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Maycomb is not on any map of the real world, but that doesn't mean it can't be mapped.
A collection of satirical maps of Europe. Comic map of the seat of war (1854) Disunited States of Europe (1864) (French) Comic Map of Europe (1870) (French) Caricature map of Europe by Paul Hadol (1870) Satirical map of Europe (1870) (French) Serio-Comic War Map (1877) (by Fred W.
United States Old Maps. First printed map of the American continents by Sebastian Münster (1554) Map of the Americas by Frederik de Wit (1610) 1681 map of the New World: New France & the Great Lakes in the north which shows the results of the expeditions of Father Marquette and L.
Atlas of Infrastructure II - Western Europe, Atlas of Places - Atlas of Places. Atlas of Infrastructure II - Western Europe, Atlas of Places Muriz Djurdjevic & Thomas Paturet Text : Paul N.
Edwards Data : Wikipedia / OpenStreetMap Gold : Roads Black : Railroads "Cars, roads, municipal water supplies, sewers, telephones, railroads, weather forecasting, building, even computers in the majority of their uses – reside in a naturalised background, as ordinary and unremarkable to us as trees, daylight and dirt. All of these maps are available for order, contact us for pricing.
But where is the green sheep? Old maps put the art in cartography. The national library's Trove digital service has been highlighting quirky old maps of the continent, starting with a 1920s graphic dividing the country up into the sheep haves and have-nots.
Artist Judy Horacek, who illustrated Mem Fox's children's classic Where is the Green Sheep? , approved of the idea. For the record, Meat and Livestock Australia has this more modern take on the old sheep map, which is impressively precise — who knew there were only 167 head of sheep in the Northern Territory? — but not as charming. The sheep map was such a hit, Trove has been pointing out other old maps of Australia in their collection of more than 600,000. 15 of the CIA’s most intriguing declassified maps. During key events in history, maps created by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have helped US presidents and their advisors make critical decisions.
These maps, usually top secret, were produced by the CIA’s own Cartography Center, which was set up in 1941 to provide maps, geographic analysis and research to support the work of the Agency, the White House, senior policy-makers and the intelligence community at large. The Center started life with only one employee, but such was the demand that one year later there were 28 people working there. The Largest Source Of Imports By Country. Map by reddit user Amiantedeluxe Who imports the most from whom?
The map above shows the flag of the country that is the largest source of imports for each other country. For example, the United States imports more good from China than any other. China is also the biggest source of imports from countries as diverse as Russia, Australia, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Madagascar, Sudan and North & South Korea among others. The future might be female, but these 100 countries have only had male leaders #gender.
This might be the silliest #map I've seen all year... What is globalization anyway? Watch the session on Governing Globalization from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017 here. Globalization – a phenomenon that has defined the world's economy in recent decades – is under pressure. As Donald Trump prepares for his tenure in the White House, he talks of dismantling a whole history of globalized trade that he sees as having had a catastrophic effect on the global economy. His strategy so far has involved tearing up established trade agreements, such as NAFTA, and burying others that are yet to get off the ground. One of these is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which he has slammed as “a potential disaster for our country”. The incoming president's pledge to "make America great again" is based partly on challenging countries such as China by limiting imports and boosting exports.
Spread of the Words For Tea Around the World - Faultlines, black holes and glaciers: mapping uncharted territories. On a quiet summer evening, the Aurora, a 60ft cutter-rigged sloop, approaches the craggy shore of eastern Greenland, along what is known as the Forbidden Coast. Its captain, Sigurdur Jonsson, a sturdy man in his 50s, stands carefully watching his charts.
The waters he is entering have been described in navigation books as among “the most difficult in Greenland; the mountains rise almost vertically from the sea to form a narrow bulwark, with rifts through which active glaciers discharge quantities of ice, while numerous off-lying islets and rocks make navigation hazardous”. The sloop is single-masted, painted a cheery, cherry red. Icebergs float in ominous silence. Where Jonsson, who goes by Captain Siggi, sails, he is one of few to have ever gone. A naval architect turned explorer, Siggi navigates by scanning aerial photos and uploading them into a plotter, the ship’s electronic navigation system. Until a century ago, Greenlandic hunters would cut maps out of driftwood. #Geography fun: here are the world's 26 largest islands. As you can see #Australia wasn't included (probably as it's seen as a continent). Is this country Greenland? Bad #geography joke: the world isn’t perfectly round. It’s more like egg shaped...
For #AustraliaDay, a world map possibly showing Australia from Henry VIII's atlas. 7 maps that will change how you see the world. A Japanese architect has won a prestigious award for creating a new map, because it shows the world as it really is. The AuthaGraph World Map angles continents in order to show their true distance from one another. Hajime Narukawa won the Good Design Award, beating over 1,000 entries in a variety of categories. “The AuthaGraph World Map provides an advanced precise perspective of our planet,” explain the organizers of the award. Not only that, but the map can then be transformed into a globe. Why is this news? Ever since we first set sail to explore the world, humans have wanted to record what they saw and experienced. Political leanings of English regions in the last 10 general elections - U.S. ancestry map. Olympic Races, in Your Neighborhood.
Home ownership: The home front. Home ownership in the UK has changed dramatically in recent years. Benjamin Hennig maps variations across the country Housing has always been a decisive and sometimes divisive political issue. Home ownership has of course long been an aspiration for many people, and in the post-war period between 1953 and 1971 the number of households renting and owning reached an equal level, as documented in official census statistics for England and Wales. Ownership then surpassed renting, reaching its peak in 2001 at 69 per cent. In the decade that followed, this number went down to 64 per cent.
Smartphones are closing the digital divide – and these countries have made the most progress. U.S. states with populations comparable to those of UK regions. Ever sat on a beach and wondered what's across the ocean? It may not be what you think. {Map of the Americas] by Paolo Forlani - Maps of America. World map by rectangular approximations of country area. Watch Rio build its 2016 Summer Olympic sites from the space. House prices mapped: How moving one train stop away can save you £100k. Buyers in search of good-value homes are opting to live near mainline train stations outside of the UK's major cities, says a new report. Online estate agent eMoov has mapped the average house price across every station in England, Wales and Scotland, with the figures showing that in some parts of the country, even moving one stop further away from a city hub can save buyers up to £120,000.
It's no surprise that London families and first-time buyers priced out of the property market are increasingly looking to the suburbs and the commuter belt in their search to find better-value homes. A property near one of the capital's 14 major rail terminals now costs an average of £1 million, but by heading east to Stratford in Zone 2/3, average prices drop to £359,000. In Zone 5, homes in Bromley South sell for an average of £295,000. States & Rivers with the Same Name. Pate's Geography (@PatesGeog) Percentage of middle-class people in England & Wales. Top International Football Scorers in Europe. Mapping the Grim. Millions of 18th and 19th century ship logged journeys plotted on a map to reveal the story of our ocean travel! Comparing the population of Scotland with London. Obesity prevalence in the United States.
Europe Mapped by Nearest National Capital. #Geography of #diversity: #map shows the 44 countries in which less than 1% of population was born abroad. Coin map of the UK. 12 Maps Only British People Will Find Funny. Five Years of Drought – Adventures In Mapping. Australia vs U.S. with Australia flipped upside down. Melbourne and Toronto Cold climate, cultural center, likes to think its a big city and a more cultured alternative to Sydney/ New York. Canberra and Washington DC National capital, short distance rom the biggest city. Temperate Seasonal climate, tending cold New York and Sydney Biggest City on the continent, surrounded by sattelite cities.
Temperate, seasonal climate. All the bia acts come here. Perth and Los Angeles Largest west coast city, hot and dry, filled with milliionaires. Nitty Gritty Guides incl EUref fact guide. The weirdest town names in all 50 states. Roman Empire about 395. Countries with less people than the city of Shanghai - Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents.
By Andy Woodruff on 17 August 2016 Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no particular reason the other day, followed by a silly-sounding question: “but, like, what about land area by latitude and longitude?” Silly because, duh, a chart of land area by latitude and longitude is a map. Then again, a map is both latitude and longitude. What if you look at each dimension individually? Heck, let’s just try it. I did this by, essentially, drawing maps and counting pixels, then collapsing all those pixels against an axis. For latitude, an equal-area projection with even spacing between parallels so that the axis has a consistent scale of degrees: sinusoidal. And similarly, for longitude, one with even spacing between meridians: a cylindrical equal-area projection, Gall-Peters. I’m not sure what there is to gain from these quasi-maps.
If nothing else, it’s fun to go full Play-Doh and cram everything both ways into a blob down the corner. United States Old Maps. United States: Buying power by state. Mapping the World's Facebook friendships #Interactivemaps #Internet #UK. Beautiful image: Literary Map of London. A 1934 reflection of tea consumption around the world relative to population. Rather clear who comes out on top... These 1838 original proposed Australian states show what could have been. Anyone fancy a trip to Guelphia? Torresia? From the 1500's, there was a widely held belief that California was an island. It was only put to rest in 1776! Picasso himself drew this clever new way of visualising the London Underground. Shown is Piccadilly Circus. A very early inflatable globe from 1840. Heat at the base expands the delicate paper like a hot air balloon. Clever!
Over five centuries ago & long before modern techniques, this is how accurately Ottoman scholars mapped Europe. The earliest surviving globe in existence, 510 years old and painstakingly etched onto an ostrich egg! Every time he goes to a Country he gets it colored in. Counties with fewer than 25 asian Americans (2010-2014) An Anglo-Saxon map of the world from around 1000AD. You can see Britain in the bottom left. ST&G's Marvellous Map Of Actual Australian Place Names — ST&G's Marvellous Map of Great British Place Names. From Lovely Bottom (Tas) to Bullshit Hill (SA), from Pisspot Creek (Tas) toTitwobble Lane (Vic), via Pimple (Qld), Pensioners Bush (Tas) and Peculiar Knob (SA), now for the first time ever you can explore, discover and celebrate Australia's truly world-class place names.
The Marvellous Map of Actual Australian Place Names is a 66cm x 66cm wall map featuring over 1,000 of the funniest, rudest and quirkiest - and 100% authentic - Aussie towns, streets, mountains, lakes and all manner of geographic features whose names may cause your older relatives to spit out their tea violently. Counties with fewer than 25 hispanic Americans (2010-2014) Most visited museum in each European country. #Geography fun fact: The border region between the former #SovietUnion and #Europe is now a healthy green belt. 22 maps that explore modern America #US. Homicide rate in France per department. Ever sat on a beach and wondered what's across the ocean? It may not be what you think. How the United States took more than 1.5 billion acres from native Americans. Area required to give every individual human (not family) on Earth their own TinyHouse / House / Mansion [OC]
The World's five longest domestic flights Source: Reddit User bonne-nouvelle. European football leagues by total attendance #Europe #Sport. The best selling artist from each London borough. A Station-By-Station Subway Map of Berlin Rents. The transit guide helps tenants work out if their landlords are charging them too much. Thanks to a new map, you can now work out exactly how much it costs to rent a Berlin apartment, subway station by subway station. Bear Witness To The Spaghetti Weirdness Of London’s Real Tube Map. A line of Colorados from the Equator to the North Pole using the Mercator projection. 72 Hours of Global Air Traffic in 13 seconds. Knitting map of Brighton (KTM Nov 2013. European borders in 1914 over current ones - Indigenous land within the United States, 1492-1977 - #Map shows most common foreign nationality in districts in #Germany. #Turkey in West; #Vietnam & #Poland in East. Via @BrilliantMaps.