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    #76
    Who likes looking at maps?

    In Bucharest they metro tells you how long since the last train left. Which is quite possibly the most useless piece of information you can imagine.

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      #77
      Who likes looking at maps?

      Meanwhile here's another map: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11989723

      It's just connections but you can see landmasses so clearly - and you can even see national borders. Look at Spain and Portugal for example

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        #78
        Who likes looking at maps?

        china seems pretty much completely absent

        russia too, though i presume that's moscow thats visible there?

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          #79
          Who likes looking at maps?

          Thanks for that, ad hoc. Very cool image.

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            #80
            Who likes looking at maps?

            Do Spaniards prefer a social network in their own language, that it seems to be the weakest EU country for Facebook outside of the physically remote parts of Scandinavia? Per capita, Ireland and Denmark must be the best-connected.

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              #81
              Who likes looking at maps?

              dglhand of god wrote:
              This is brilliant. Thanks to the Quietus folk for making me aware.

              Now if I only lived there or could do it for NYC...
              My god, I could watch that for hours.

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                #82
                Who likes looking at maps?

                New York Times article and awesome map on Census release of American Community Survey from 2005 to 2009.

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                  #83
                  Who likes looking at maps?

                  Very interesting map Inca.

                  I'm surprised to see that San Fran's Chinatown core is still 99% Asian, I'd have guessed maybe 90%.

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                    #84
                    Who likes looking at maps?

                    Aside from using dot density on an inappropriate enumeration unit, (it's really only appropriate in NY city) and that the "Every City, Every Block" is complete B.S. in regards to the ACS, and that the projection in google maps is stupid, that's a really well done website.

                    This ACS 5-year estimate release is kind of a big deal, btw. Here is the main page:

                    http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/2009_release/

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                      #85
                      Who likes looking at maps?

                      You act like you know something about this, Matej.

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                        #86
                        Who likes looking at maps?

                        It is true that I resemble somebody who might know a bit about Census geography.

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                          #87
                          Who likes looking at maps?

                          dglhand of god wrote:

                          This is brilliant. Thanks to the Quietus folk for making me aware.

                          Now if I only lived there or could do it for NYC...

                          My god, I could watch that for hours
                          It is disconcerting when you get the occasional train that appears to have left the tracks and plowed its own path from Tottenham Court Road to Euston right through the heart of Bloomsbury.

                          I keep wanting to check Sky News to see if there's been some major derailment disaster.

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                            #88
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                            When I had a look last night, there was only one train on the whole of the Victoria line... which sounds about right.

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                              #89
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                              I was actually quite shocked and happy to have seen the countdown clocks had spread in the NYC subways, from just the L to the 6 and 1 lines (at least) too.

                              And when they get done the 2nd avenue subway, someone really needs to start digging an extension to the north end of it along 125th-Randall's Island-northern Astoria-LaGuardia. That's infinitely better than this idiot idea of running the 7 all the way to Secaucus.

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                                #90
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                                That's a 23rd century project.

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                                  #91
                                  Who likes looking at maps?

                                  Rogin the Armchair Fan wrote:
                                  It is disconcerting when you get the occasional train that appears to have left the tracks and plowed its own path from Tottenham Court Road to Euston right through the heart of Bloomsbury.

                                  I keep wanting to check Sky News to see if there's been some major derailment disaster.
                                  Shiraz down my shirt there. Bastard, Rogin.

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                                    #92
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                                    jefe wrote:
                                    when they get done the 2nd avenue subway, someone really needs to start digging an extension to the north end of it along 125th-Randall's Island-northern Astoria-LaGuardia. That's infinitely better than this idiot idea of running the 7 all the way to Secaucus.
                                    The main reason (I understood) for the 7 extension idea was a plan to use Federal money. Since Christie pulled NJ out of the Penn Station tunnel widening (which was really needed, if running way over budget at the wrong time), they wanted to try and use the funds from the Feds allocated to that (to both NJ and NY). Given they are extending the 7 line anyway, someone probably tabled it in an emergency evaporating money meeting.

                                    Very unlikely to get off the ground anyway. But extending the 2nd Ave line is a brilliant (if ridiculously amusing) idea, given that I think Ursus' life will perhaps only last until his first ride on it - the shock of it all being too much.

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                                      #93
                                      Who likes looking at maps?

                                      irishreddevil wrote:
                                      Do Spaniards prefer a social network in their own language, that it seems to be the weakest EU country for Facebook outside of the physically remote parts of Scandinavia? Per capita, Ireland and Denmark must be the best-connected.
                                      According to this map, Facebook is the most popular social network in Spain. Maybe they just have better things to do than to be on Facebook.

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                                        #94
                                        Who likes looking at maps?

                                        I'm not saying they shouldn't, but how come the Dutch use something called, uh, Hyves instead of Facebook?

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                                          #95
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                                          Furtho wrote:
                                          I'm not saying they shouldn't, but how come the Dutch use something called, uh, Hyves instead of Facebook?
                                          I want to know Friendster isn't on the list. I just signed up for an account thinking it was the hot new thing.

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                                            #96
                                            Who likes looking at maps?

                                            What a Tube map would look like with a 4m rise in global sea levels.

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                                              #97
                                              Who likes looking at maps?

                                              Diabetes in America. Just look how much it went up in 4 years.

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                                                #98
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                                                Yeesh. Healthcare costs are going to be ninety percent of GDP soon if we keep going like this.

                                                Eating your veggies is not part of a socialist plot, Americans!

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                                                  #99
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                                                  Pro Publica did a very lengthy story on America's dialysis care system.

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                                                    Who likes looking at maps?

                                                    3-D mapping in Beirut

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