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Read here about the "longest distance you can travel between two points in a straight line without crossing any ocean or any major water bodies" (spoiler: the 13,589.31km route goes from Liberia to China).
On a somewhat different note, here's a map portraying by region designated sites on the National Heritage List for England. More information here.
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Short video showing the handmade manufacture of globes, 1955 (warning: contains audio).
https://twitter.com/jackbloggs8040/status/839553929511854081
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Continuing on tee rex's US map theme, kinda, here are three maps portraying "regional patterns of swearing preferences. The maps are based on an 8.9 billion-word corpus of geo-coded tweets...". More information on how they were compiled, plus maps showing the usage of a whole lot of other words, can be found here.
Fuck.
Bitch.
Motherfucker.
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Couple of links today.
A navigable map of Yugoslavia, made in 1975 to show the locations of memorials (spomeniks) to the National Liberation War, i.e. World War 2, is here.
The CIA's Cartography Center (mission, "to provide a full range of maps, geographic analysis, and research in support of the Agency, the White House, senior policymakers, and the Intelligence Community at large") now has its own Flickr account, here, which is well worth a poke around.
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I guess most of you know this already, but for those of us who are overseas posters, the font used in the legend above is Johnston.
The most influential typeface of the early twentieth century, it was originally commissioned in 1916 by Frank Pick of London Underground Railways for use in signs on the railway system. Originally called "Underground", it became known as "Johnston's Railway Type", and later simply "Johnston".
Designers: Edward Johnston and David Farey
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"...resized countries according to how much tea their populations drank". From 1934.
Beyond the obvious i'm intrigued by how Ireland had been portrayed.
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I noticed that the other day. The balance between Britain, Ireland, India, China and Japan was striking to me. Maybe I haven't understood the scale.
There's an article on so-called paper towns ("fictional places on a map [created by the cartographer] to prevent copyright infringements") here.
Hand-drawn map in lieu of an address on a letter sent to a farm in rural Iceland.
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