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    South London has lots of shale beds, whereas North London's subsurface is mostly clay.

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      Originally posted by NHH View Post
      South London has lots of shale beds, whereas North London's subsurface is mostly clay.

      Shale! Don't say that! We'll have the fracking companies moving in! It's sand that's the problem: https://www.citymetric.com/transport...th-london-2929

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        17 maps of the US with a clickbait headline, but some are interesting nonetheless

        https://www.ranker.com/list/whoa-usa...yJYcVDLf-yLm5I

        I presume number 2 means that each individual state has a smaller population than LA, not that all of them combined do. I think my favourite (in terms of how interesting it is) is #14. The disused railway one is a bit depressing.

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          That looks like the correct interpretation of #2.

          #14 is astonishing, isn't it? I've seen it before and it remains shocking.

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            Originally posted by Greenlander View Post
            Not sure if this has been put up here before but I waste far too much time on this one. Apart from showing wind conditions around the globe there are links to webcams in just about every locality going. The more you zoom in, the more appear.

            https://www.windy.com/?51.968,0.659,7
            Aye

            It's brilliant, isn't it!

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                We've already had the Tube map in Welsh, but now it has been translated into Irish:

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                  Current global travel advice of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs:

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                    I love that they have included a special key for Ireland

                    And they're obviously struggling to make up their minds about Western Sahara

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                      Just colour in the whole World as "do not travel" and have done with it

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                        Is Ireland's advice about "do not travel" to Libya, Congo, Syria or Afghanistan based solely on coronavirus?

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                          I think it's general advice rather than COVID-19 specific.

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                            Indeed.

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                              I'd like someone better than me at uploading online images on here to post one I saw the other day, which was a pictorial image of the Milky Way galaxy with our current impact on it (a 200 light year sphere of radio signals). In a galaxy of 150,000 light years that is a miniscule dot so in the visual that I can't post it's jaw-dropping.

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                                Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View Post
                                Is Ireland's advice about "do not travel" to Libya, Congo, Syria or Afghanistan based solely on coronavirus?
                                In all those cases it is specifically about security, not coronavirus
                                https://www.dfa.ie/travel/travel-advice/

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                                  Earthquake

                                  [URL]https://twitter.com/iris_epo/status/1240386136410906625?s=21[/URL]

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                                    Hopefully UA hasn't posted the link and I've missed it, but there are some good New York ones here: http://metrocosm.com/best-nyc-maps-2015/

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                                      Nicked from the Graun:
                                      https://www.theguardian.com/environm...l-world-rivers

                                      Elevation maps of the great rivers of the world without vegetation or man-made stuff.

                                      E.g.MacKenzie River, Canada

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                                        These are great. Although the text seems to miss what looks like the most important part of this - that all of these are incredibly flat areas being mapped and that the vertical resolution and detail is what is fantastic. We've all seen topographic/elevation maps before, but we've rarely seen them with vertical detail between 0 and 5 meters.

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                                          Downloadable maps to colour from the Ordnance Survey

                                          https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/site/uploads/files/os_colouring_book.pdf

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                                            Lovely map of Glasgow tram routes, c1938.

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                                              Had they kept even a third of the route Glasgow would have a brilliant integrated transport network.

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                                                Los Angeles even more so



                                                Oakland and the East Bay

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                                                  https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1261641757902733312?s=20

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                                                    Those are great.

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