Who likes looking at maps?

[ursus arctos]

I've always liked this French one

[S. aureus]

That rather looks like a giant tentacled creature squatting on Paris.

[Gangster Octopus]

Your point being?

[S. aureus]

I was wondering how long it would take someone to tap that in, I was anticipating 3-5 minutes.

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/alexsakalis/status/1264483531696353285?s=20

[ad hoc]

That's very nice. Though I want to protest against the lack of a Brasov-Cluj-Budapest line, partly because that's the actual line I live on, and partly because I can;t actually see why it's been omitted.

[HeavyDracula]

I'm irked by the lack of Sarajevo and Pristina connections. This is a Serbian dream!

[via vicaria]

Montenegrins stuck on the buses as well!

[ursus arctos]

Including Italy (or Austria if one is being Habsburgisch) in the Balkans is a take

[San Bernardhinault]

I'd be more concerned with Hungary than Istria if containing it in the Balkans was the big issue.

[Diable Rouge]

The geographic boundaries of the Welsh language in 1750 - reminds me of the similar Irish-language map before the Famine:

[Diable Rouge]

[matt j]

That Wales map is fascinating to me. It wouldn't take much being stripped off for me to have no idea what it was trying to represent.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Odd to see the small village that my mother grew up in on there.

Coincidentally I realised in the last 24 hours how out of touch I was with the current local government/county structure in Wales.

[pebblethefish]

If you're not paying too much attention, the Welsh one looks like the bilingual area is a wide river separating the Welsh speaking parts from the English. Which is, I suspect, how a lot would still like it today.

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

Game hunting map, USSR 1939

[pebblethefish]

So, so many questions from that one VT. Just a few of those that spring to mind:

Did the huntsman in the NE get his dog to play pat-a-cake with the bear to distract him?
Has the huntsman slightly to the SW of him run out of bullets, and therefore decided to bayonet the bear?
Why is the plane at the top about to crash into an ice floe?
What exactly are the animals in the SSE bit - reindeer wearing white stockings?
Speaking of which, in the top centre that seems to be a diced walrus talking to a skinny Loch Ness monster - what's that about?
That bit in the SW central - are those the spirit rabbits that sang Bright Eyes on Watership Down?

I actually want that map on my wall

[Balderdasha]

[ursus arctos]

My pressing question on the Soviet map is how they got the structure in the South Central region to 8th Avenue and 33rd Street about three decades later

[S. aureus]

Interesting that the topologist included Somaliland.

[ad hoc]

Palestine is wrong on that topology map. It has a border with Egypt too

[Nefertiti2]

Should't the Uk be connected to France via the tunnel and Denmark to Sweden via the bridge?

[lambers]

I guess they are counting the Gaza strip as an exclave, as per the note in the bottom left.

[Patrick Thistle]

The geographic boundaries of the Welsh language in 1750 - reminds me of the similar Irish-language map before the Famine:

Noticeable that Monmouthshire is on the English side of the border there

[Gangster Octopus]

It was until 1969, if my memory serves me well...