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    It's all that radioactive money, Spoony

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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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        Arthur Gunn's poster for the Great Western Railway, some would say over-reaching (and indeed misrepresenting) similarities between Cornwall and Italy, 1907.
        Didn't George Osborne try to put VAT on Cornish pastas?

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          What's the one listed battlefield in London, Barnet?

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            Yes.

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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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                It turns out there actually is an answer to the question we've all been pondering: "What do Qatar and Portland, Oregon have in common?" ...

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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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                    Northern New Hampshire and Central Maine are heavy on the motherfuckers.

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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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                        This is ace

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                          That is amazing - Harry Beck, too. Fascinating to see both the presentation of information and the detail of the routes, hopping and skipping to places I’ve never even heard of (basically, anywhere in Australia).

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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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                              Discovered on Twitter, here, where the accompanying remarks are that the book Maps For A National Plan (1945) is "movingly expressive of a moment of belief that the nation's ills & regional inequalities could be surveyed, diagnosed, & solved".







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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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                                    That envelope address is great, but why does it have an Icelandic stamp?

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                                      Because it was posted in Iceland?

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                                        If you were to send a letter to a half-known address in England, would you write it out in Icelandic?

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                                          Originally posted by Aitch View Post
                                          If you were to send a letter to a half-known address in England, would you write it out in Icelandic?
                                          Those situations are not exactly symmetric.

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                                            Gangland Chicago in the 30s

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                                              Map of Air India flights on a promotional fan, 1960s.

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                                                Map of London, 1864, showing an extraordinary-shaped Millbank Penitentiary - about which there's an article here.

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                                                  Fascinating! And a great aerial photograph at the end of the article.

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                                                    Interesting stuff. And it also follows the first rule of maps in that the bit you are also interested in (where I live in this case) is right on the edge of the map, or on the join.

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