Who likes looking at maps?

[Diable Rouge]

The seat, birthplace and university of every UK PM since 1902:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ElectionM...57940853628929

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Map on a British Rail poster promoting the InterCity network, 1982.

Trains to Dover going from Charing Cross / Waterloo? Or was that a proposed change that never came about?

[seand]

Map showing the route of a competitive pub crawl organised by the South West London Vietnam Ad-Hoc Committee to celebrate the 150th birthday of Karl Marx, 1968. Should you wish to retrace the steps of the participants, a larger version is

We Irish are rarely ones to shy away from a drinking session, but a 25-stop pub crawl seems a bit excessive.

[Capybara]

Trains to Dover going from Charing Cross / Waterloo? Or was that a proposed change that never came about?

There are regular trains from Charing Cross/Waterloo (East) to this day, though it takes a bit longer than on the map.

[Furtho]

We Irish are rarely ones to shy away from a drinking session, but a 25-stop pub crawl seems a bit excessive.

It did look on the ambitious side, but the spirit of the revolution was at stake.

[Furtho]

Showing numbers of passengers in millions, a stylised map of the Berlin underground, 1927. Big version here.

[Furtho]

Charming aerial view map showing sightseeing spots around the Awa Railroad, Shikoku, Japan, 1931. Huge version here.

[San Bernardhinault]

I love that Berlin U-bahn map. I'd be interested to see one of those for 2017 London, but I imagine it would be too unwieldy.

[Furtho]

Stylised city railway map showing the "43 independent lines (18 steam and 25 interurbans)" entering Indianapolis, 1907. More info here.

[Sits]

How much time do you spend looking at maps Furtho? Long may it continue, I hasten to add.

[Furtho]

Actively looking, five minutes a day? But sometimes, as with all three of the maps on this page, I just get lucky on Twitter.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Showing numbers of passengers in millions, a stylised map of the Berlin underground, 1927. Big version here.

This is fucking ace. Poster size print, pls.

[tee rex]

Not a map, but "who likes looking at graphs?" might be a short thread.

Votes in the recent New Zealand election: those Kiwis that OTFers meet in London pubs are not representative of the population back home - more than twice as Green, for example:

[Furtho]

I'm a sucker for a hand-drawn map. Here's one by Graham Greene, part of an invitation to a party at his house on Clapham Common, 1938.

[Furtho]

Probably hardly needs explaining that this is a map of bus routes in Tokyo, c1950. Big version here.

[Guy Profumo]

We all know about CityMetric, I assume?


Example:

http://www.citymetric.com/transport/...port-dprk-3421

[Furtho]

Very interesting piece about Pyongyang there, GP.

And speaking of the DPRK, here's a forecast map of a bomb like that of their latest test exploding over Tokyo's Nagatacho (notes my correspondent, "and we'd still be stuck with that eyesore Kawasaki... sad!").

[San Bernardhinault]

Geographic distribution of waterway names in Britain



With more on it here, at Atlas Obscura

[Furtho]

Lovely, SB. On a related note, previously I posted an 1851 map showing by (English-only) county the proportion of parish names that refer directly to water, here.

Anyone interested in maps and the history of Poland might want to take a look at this long-form article on the cartographical manifestations of the country when it, well, wasn't a country.

[Furtho]

Super-detailed San Francisco wall map, compiled for use by the fire-insurance industry, 1874. More info here, big version here.

[ursus arctos]

That's excellent

Flynnie's old stomping grounds are miles off the map to the left

Van Ness Avenue, the major break for the post Earthquake fire is about 1/3 of the way from the left edge, and the upper right corner shows how the grid had already been extended to cover lots of blocks that were still underwater.

[Furtho]

Map showing the number of KFC outlets in European countries.

[Gerontophile]

I bet of the 100 in Spain, a large majority will be on the Costas... where Brits go.

[Furtho]

Yeah, I wonder if that's true. Certainly the number in the UK is very striking.

On a rather different note, a map showing the distribution of the slave population in the southern states, compiled from the census of 1860. More info here. Big version here.

[Hot Pepsi]

Map showing the number of KFC outlets in European countries.

I’m confident that KFC is more popular abroad than in the US