JCC Terr's Interesting Map Thread (Image Heavy)

A blow by blow map of the 700 quakes we've had in the past two weeks: http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/

For my fellow map nerds, I've just started a new geography and travel blog. There will be lots of maps there.

Race maps of America's biggest cities

New York is dense.

Those maps are really interesting, but I wish they identified highways and such. I'm trying to figure out what the large green blob of Asians in LA is... Pasadena? Or Glendale?

EDIT: Here is the link to the full list where you can scroll over and it'll tell you what different areas are. And that, that's Pasadena. Hm...

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Well, now I'll know which areas to avoid.

Saw a link to the same guy's Locals and tourists maps.

lol @ all the pictures taken in Hollywood and the Santa Monica Pier.


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This map is from okcupid. The titles aren't part of the image, but it's called "Who's Gay Curious In The U.S. And Canada." Red represents more gay curious, blue represents less gay curious, and yellow and green are in between.



Now when people accuse the U.S. of being homophobic, it can say, "Nuh-uh! Canada's one of my best buds and it's gay. Not . . . that there's anything wrong with that."

I didn't realize there were so many gay-curious people living on the Channel Islands. Or any people. I cry foul!

But yes, Canada is super gay-curious. Let's blame the French!

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I'm surprised that the gayest province appears to be Manitoba. Who knew?

And why does Mississippi always have to be at the bottom of the list?

From here:

Europe as seen by the Germans:


Europe as seen by the Italians:


Europe as seen by the Bulgarians:


Europe as seen by the French:


Europe as seen by gays:


Europe as seen by the British:


Europe as seen by the Americans:


A composite map of European stereotypes:

My personal favourites:

Ikea/Abba/Volvo land/Socialist Union for Sweden
Semi-France for Belgium
Anti-Europeans/Posh beer for Czech Republic
Czech mountains/Some Slavs/Other Slavs for Slovakia
Clock addicts for Germany (coming from Italians... )
Gas stealers for Ukraine
Mummy for UK (awwww... )

and the best:

Union of subsidized farmers

Map of the planet Eternia. Not as detailed as some others, but you get an idea where Castle Greyskull, Snake Mountain and the Royal Palace are in relation to each other.

Those European Shouting Match maps are brilliant! And of course, they do reflect a bit on each country's own culture....

This was my favorite. Too true.

I stumbled onto this interactive map of European history last night. I wound up being up until 4:30am because I was so interested in reading it. Largely a refresher, but some of the further back stuff I don't really know anything about.


They apparently also have such maps for other things, like the history of Iraq and certain wars. Haven't even finished this one yet, though, so I haven't gotten to those.

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Nice interactive map of European history there, but I think it's a bit confusing in parts (I'm no history expert). And I had to LOL at Great Moravia's description being "Slovak Kingdom Formed". 1, Slovaks never had a kingdom of their own, and 2, at that time the Slavs weren't split into nations as they're now (so there were no Czechs, Poles, Slovaks, Russians yet - it was just Slavs at that time; at best they were split into the three branches, Western, Eastern and Southern).

Maximum Speed Limits in the US




If the largest countries had the biggest populations...




The United States of Google Autocomplete




A portion of the fascinating Atlas of True Names

Now THAT'S interesting!

My favourite part is how North Korea is still above South Korea.

Thanks, I was running out of places to waste my time.

China = Riceland

LOL

OMG, they moved us to Middle East!

Love this.

Should've had a bigger population.