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[alyxandr]

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Why does Japan get to be "Avoid some areas" and not the U.S.? Pretty sure we've got some radioactive bits too.

[WOM]

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You've got Love Canal, too, but it's all fenced off.

[Furtho]

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alyxandr wrote: Why does Japan get to be "Avoid some areas" and not the U.S.? Pretty sure we've got some radioactive bits too.

Someone commenting along those lines on Twitter was what brought this one to my attention, yeah. Japan is coloured yellow on the map because of Fukushima, but the idea that the country as a whole is therefore more dangerous to visit than the US or the UK seems odd.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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If you're a visitor from the West there's a fair chance they'll mistake you for a whale and harpoon you?

[Furtho]

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Good one, Rogin!

[San Bernardhinault]

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More dangerous than the US or UK is one thing (although a bit odd). But more dangerous than Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea is definitely something I'd question.

[Furtho]

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Painstaking, fascinating digitisation of Gian Domenico Cassini's 17th century map of France, here

[beak]

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Furtho wrote: Painstaking, fascinating digitisation of Gian Domenico Cassini's 17th century map of France, here

that's mint

[Nefertiti2]

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Has this been posted yet?.

An online exhibition to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of John Snow the pioneer of disease mapping and public health.

[Sits]

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Furtho wrote: Painstaking, fascinating digitisation of Gian Domenico Cassini's 17th century map of France, here

That's staggering. I just zeroed down to a tiny village near Bergerac which was our last holiday before we migrated, in only about 3 minutes. How long must it have taken him?

[Furtho]

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I can't find the link via which I came across that version of the map now, but I'm pretty sure the article said it took about sixty years and that the work was spread across four generations of Cassini's family.

[via vicaria]

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17th century. Fucking hell. Easily one of the most impressive things I've seen in a while.

[ursus arctos]

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This page helps put the work in context.

As noted, there were multiple generations of Cassinis, and that particular map is mid 18th century.

[Furtho]

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Someone's put together a live map of train movements on the London underground ("live departure data is fetched from the TfL API, and then [the tech system underpinning the map] does a bit of maths and magic. A small number of stations are misplaced or missing; occasional trains behave oddly; some H&C and Circle stations are missing in the TfL feed"). It's here, and it's oddly relaxing.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

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That is awesome, even if, as you say, a few trains behave oddly, e.g. the one I just saw making its way down the side of Parliament Hill, roughly half way between the two branches of the Northern Line.

[Gerontophile]

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May I point out that aside from the art thread, this might be the best thread ever?

(Although it needs more city underground maps... )

[Gerontophile]

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And Furtho: I have that on Windows 8, and it makes me feel so relaxed...

[Furtho]

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On a simliar-ish note, one Takatsugu Kuriyama has taken it upon himself to make a 3D model of the Tokyo underground. Here's the model:



Here's the regular map:



More here.

[Diable Rouge]

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An ethnic map of Europe.

[Furtho]

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Interesting. There's a sort-of interactive version of roughly the same map elsewhere on the same site, here.

[Levin]

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A bit old but I really like this version of the London map.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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Furtho wrote:

A small number of stations are misplaced or missing; occasional trains behave oddly

A true-to-life representation of the real underground then?

[Gerontophile]

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Furtho: isn't that a bit ... well.. art? (I love it. I really do. It is a thing of beauty... how much? and where can I buy a house to put it in?)

And 10/7 (sorry couldnt find the thing for your name.): that is awesome. And I haven't clicked on it yet. The possibilities are phenomenal. (Have you all done the upside down tube map?)

[Kevin S]

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That European ethnic groups map - isn't it missing Republika Srpska?

[Diable Rouge]

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In fairness, it doesn't show federal subdivisions for any country, just linguistic boundaries, and all Serbian territory would be contiguous.