Who likes looking at maps?

[Furtho]

Autobahns and other main highways, East Germany, 1958. Click here for a larger version.

[Ginger Yellow]

Future solar eclipses, mapped

None in the UK in my lifetime, alas, but it looks like we should be booking 2026 holidays in Bilbao now.

[Hot Pepsi]

I love looking at the oldest Ordnance Survey maps available, where they still have such things as gallows marked on them.

The old British ordnance maps play a role in New York 2140. There's a subplot about kids trying to find the gold that went down with the HMS Hussar, now possibly buried under a bit of the Bronx.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hussar_(1763)

[San Bernardhinault]

Future solar eclipses, mapped

None in the UK in my lifetime, alas, but it looks like we should be booking 2026 holidays in Bilbao now.

Good stuff. Perhaps getting hammered somewhere near Mendoza in 2019 would be fun...

[ad hoc]

Great Britain, maps, statistics and train stations. If this doesn't get BB&F back, nothing will http://www.citymetric.com/transport/...n-station-3165

[Furtho]

Map indicating the location of Hard-To-Find Farm, Buckinghamshire.

[Furtho]

Couple of nice stylised maps.

Emil Letoschek’s weather map, produced in Vienna, 1888.



Map showing domestic flights in East Germany.

[Furtho]

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[ursus arctos]

I never knew that Interflug had domestic routes within the DDR.

None of those routes exist today, and Barth, Chemnitz (ex Karl Marx Stadt) and Eisenach have no scheduled service.

[Sam]

Future solar eclipses, mapped

None in the UK in my lifetime, alas, but it looks like we should be booking 2026 holidays in Bilbao now.

Good stuff. Perhaps getting hammered somewhere near Mendoza in 2019 would be fun...

Fantastic, that. It looks a tad far north for Mendoza, though (is there a way to zoom in?). But it does look very like it's going to end right over Buenos Aires, so if anyone wants to come down for it I assure you it's very easy to get hammered here too (and I'll be happy to help you do so). Mendoza's fucking freezing at this time of year anyway.

I am obviously rather chuffed to discover this.

[Sam]

Ah, the animation on Wikipedia makes it looks like the line of totality might actually be over Buenos Aires just after sunset, in fact. Bugger! I wonder if it'll be visible at 100% from Rosario. Got a couple of friends there ...

[Furtho]

Another East German map, this time in the context of a perceived attempt by the US to sabotage the country's agriculture through the introduction of the Colorado beetle.

[Furtho]

Map showing "social & functional analysis" in the County of London Plan, 1944. Larger version here.

[Furtho]

Holy moly. Interested in old Ordnance Survey maps of England? Intrigued by the idea of wasting a gigantic amount of time faffing happily around on the internet? Step this way...

[Gangster Octopus]

I see that in the 1920s, Ordnance Survey decided to rename Boston Castle as Beston Castle...

[San Bernardhinault]

Fantastic, that. It looks a tad far north for Mendoza, though (is there a way to zoom in?). But it does look very like it's going to end right over Buenos Aires, so if anyone wants to come down for it I assure you it's very easy to get hammered here too (and I'll be happy to help you do so). Mendoza's fucking freezing at this time of year anyway.

I am obviously rather chuffed to discover this.

Looks like you're right about Mendoza. And it's just south of BA, at sunset. By the look of things, you'll probably want to drive a few miles south and west (presumably further from the coast is going to have less risk of clouds, too).

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoog...02Tgoogle.html

[Sam]

Ah, passing right over some of the less pleasant bits of Greater Buenos Aires, at a time of day when traffic is going to be a nightmare. Maybe I can talk my girlfriend into taking the day off work and we can drive out to Chacabuco or Junín or something.

[Furtho]

Map showing by English county the proportion of 1851 parish names that refer directly to water. Larger version is here.

[Furtho]

Another map of East Germany, this time on the cover of the GDR's English-language propaganda newsletter Democratic German Report, 1962.

[SouthdownRebel]

West, shurely...

An interesting piece of history though. I wonder what happened to those top, top Hitler officers?

[Furtho]

Duh, yes. I shall leave it there as a monument to, etc. etc.

[Furtho]

Map produced by Poles and published in Rome "documenting, though likely with some exaggeration, the extent of the Soviet gulag system", 1945. More information here.

[Furtho]

In a tube map stylee, the Roman roads of Britain. Info here.

[Ginger Yellow]

Morningtinium Crescentum!

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

Holy moly. Interested in old Ordnance Survey maps of England? Intrigued by the idea of wasting a gigantic amount of time faffing happily around on the internet? Step this way...

Oh man. That's the day gone and the report will have to write itself.