What? No cheese and gravy?
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Who likes looking at maps?
Collapse
X
-
Lisa Nandy's (MP for Wigan) new think tank The Centre for Towns has a good map section on their website. They've mapped a lot of transport data - passengers at stations, flow of buses/cars etc.
Comment
-
Bit of a mix and match that - Algeria is Land of the Islands in Arabic, but Morocco, from Marrakesh, is only Land of God in Berber. The arab name for it is "The furthest west", which would be consistent with the others.
Comment
-
This popped up recently. It's diagrams showing the orientation of streets in cities (or, more accurately, their junctions, which allows for curvy streets to be measured). It's fascinating, how US grid cities are almost all oriented along cardinal directions: NYC being an exception because Manhattan rudely doesn't quite align properly. Internationally, although there are grid cities, they aren't generally NS/EW aligned. Obviously, older non-centrally-planned cities are messier, but even they seem to have some structure to them - London, for example, has a bit of empty space on the 45 degree lines, which presumably is a consequence of everything being bounded by the Thames - either going alongside, or perpendicularly away from.
and
Comment
-
-
- Mar 2008
- 3387
- at the edge of the sea
- Plymouth Argyle, Plymouth Gladiators, Seattle Mariners
- cream crackers spread with nutella
Does tee rex's map up there have a blue dot for Pitcairn Island. Surely an island with 50 odd inhabitants doesn't have cars or even roads. I'm guessing they come under the legal jurisdiction of the UK, Australia or New Zealand so their RTA applies. For what it's worth.
Comment
-
- Mar 2008
- 29953
- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
Like the "Cryptic Crossword" thread, I don't normally come on here as it is frighteningly unwieldy and I also think you are all weirdos so this map of Best Selling Singer, Music Artist or Band From Each US State may have already been posted. Perhaps it should be in "Music" as well.
Comment
-
Some states really aren't pulling their weight. I understand that with only a few hundred thousand residents, there's no guarentee of anything worthwhile coming out of Wyoming. But Ohio is the seventh biggest state, and has 11 million people. Is the best they can do really Rascal Flatts?
Comment
Comment