Who likes looking at maps?

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Who likes looking at maps?

Fantastic, thanks for posting!

[Furtho]

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Zoomable world population density map, here.

[beak]

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European word translator

[ad hoc]

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WWII casualties as percentage of population https://twitter.com/Amazing_Maps/status/425538362536394752/photo/1

[ad hoc]

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This is worth watching http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/aviation-100-years

[ad hoc]

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In other map news, NZ map maker tries to find an alternative to Sugar Loaf Mountain/Corcovado to illustrate its Brazil map http://www.traveluniverse.com.au/Brazil-Bolivia-Paraguay-and-Peru-Deluxe-Hema-Map/9781865003054.htm#.Ut5uoBD8KM-

(then they try and cover it up by retitling the page, but checking the map itself will tell you that Peru is not actually part of the map)

[Furtho]

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ad hoc's Guardian map of live airline flights is amazing. Hypnotic stuff, especially with the audio switched on.

[Furtho]

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Interesting article on the New Yorker website exploring the relationship between maps and literature, here.

[ad hoc]

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Abandoned London tube stations http://cdn.londonist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/AbandonedStations.png

[Andy C]

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Animated interactive globe showing current wind patterns. Quite mesmeric.

http://earth.nullschool.net/

[via vicaria]

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Have we had this yet? Interactive map of immigrant settlement in the US:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html

[evilC]

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The Chrome or Safari user looked at Johnny.

(God, I hate it when people design webpages that don't work on all browsers!)

[ad hoc]

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Maps/Cryptic crossword threads crossover map: Anagrams of all London's tube stations:

http://www.steveprentice.net/tube/TfLSillyMaps/anagrammap.gif

Not knowing the map that well, I'm left trying to reverse engineer the anagrams to try and guess what the originals were.

Like, for example, that line out to the East going to Elk Ramp via Wobbly Embryo, Kaput Porn, Erect Bone, and Church Horn

[OnceGaza]

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A bit outdate but ok.
http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps?fb_action_ids=10152014916985849&fb_action_typ es=og.likes

[NHH]

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For those who like listening about Maps - a PhD student researching the creation of the London postcode system gives a talk here

[Furtho]

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Wired article about maps and immigration to the city of Boston, here.

New project by the New York Public Library places 20,000 hi-res maps online and free to download, here.

[longeared]

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Geoguessr has launched some nation specific games:

UK
Japan
USA

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

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For those of us who, above all, like looking at the paper maps produced by the Ordnance Survey, it was a huge relief to see their statement yesterday denying inaccurate media reports that they are going to cease producing them due to falling sales and increasing financial losses.

Part of the reason for the falling sales is that people are apparently using satnav more. Satnav must be a competitor for the title of "most loathsome civil application of digital and telecoms technology".

[Ginger Yellow]

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Satnav must be a competitor for the title of "most loathsome civil application of digital and telecoms technology".

Seriously? Worse than, say, child porn? Or mass surveillance and interception of communications? Or selling quack remedies online? Or even using colocated servers to get a trading edge over people who can't afford to?

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

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Well, obviously not. I didn't mean it literally, I was letting off steam.

But most (or all?) of those are things which are made easier and/or more prevalent by the new technology, but existed in some other medium before, albeit in lesser volume. The thing about prat-nav is that, prior to the digi-comms tech, no such thing existed in any form. People had to engage their brains to navigate their way around.

[Guy Profumo]

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Evariste Euler Gauss wrote: For those of us who, above all, like looking at the paper maps produced by the Ordnance Survey, it was a huge relief to see their statement yesterday denying inaccurate media reports that they are going to cease producing them due to falling sales and increasing financial losses.

Part of the reason for the falling sales is that people are apparently using satnav more. Satnav must be a competitor for the title of "most loathsome civil application of digital and telecoms technology".

Paper? Paper?

Revisionist!

Cloth is where it's at man.

[garcia]

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satnav is a good thing, though? if it stops people getting lost or even just wasting time?

[Guy Profumo]

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garcia wrote: satnav is a good thing, though? if it stops people getting lost or even just wasting time?

But it doesn't though.

(Any more than maps used to, when people tried to follow the "thick blue road" on the map, for example - scions of the the same slack-jawed yokels are still ending up in ditches, stranded in fords, and stuck halfway down cliff faces because they've believed in the evidence of the "map", rather than what they can see through the windscreens of their cars.)

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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[Guy Profumo]

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Rogin the Armchair Fan wrote:

I'm sure if you made the writing smaller you could shoe-horn even more tedious stereotypes into that one.