Let's bring back the map thread

[Samson's Wig 3194]

1 hour ago, Wally Fairway said:

 

Interesting comment about an Africa centric map

 

 

Roethlisberger

[bolverk 29737]

On 10/23/2018 at 3:22 AM, Rockwell Torrey said:

I think it is "Europe" formed by putting together the outline of countries from other parts of the world.   UK is New Zealand, Scandinavian countries are India and Sri Lanka, Western UK is Hawaii, North Africa is an upside down Eastern Asia (China, Korean Peninsula), Italy is Florida, Island in Central Med is Hispaniola (Dominican and Haiti), Denmark might be Greenland, and I can't figure out what Spain is.  Great lakes are obvious, but unclear on what they represent.  Black Sea might be the Baltic...not real sure.

Anyway, my $.02...that may all be BS, but sort of what I see. 

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The Irish would like to have a word with you. Also, Corsica and Sardinia are in the Baltic, and Puerto Rico is just above Hispanola. And, yes, Denmark is puzzling.

[bolverk 29737]

From Bloomberg: Here’s How America Uses Its Land

Cool series of maps showing the six dominant land use types across America.

[RDCanecutter 26476]

WW2 Topo Map Archive:

http://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A32223?fbclid=IwAR0oAVFhSYJ0sYJ7YDEUsHDkEHJWhy_SgpyMKwfg6KRb-Z9a51IxKbTgQlw

[NAVY 6747]

Necro bump. Was sorting through some boxes yesterday and found photos of Dubai when I was deployed in 92. The second photo is google maps today-ish. Kinda cool. 

 

[Parliament 14343]

All the ships on the oceans, lakes and rivers.  In real time.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-102.0/centery:-0.2/zoom:5

[NorthLoop 14254]

25 minutes ago, Parliament said:

All the ships on the oceans, lakes and rivers.  In real time.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-102.0/centery:-0.2/zoom:5

Thanks. Just spent a good half hour combing over the Panama Canal. 

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

4 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Thanks. Just spent a good half hour combing over the Panama Canal. 

that's interesting man.  never occurred to me to think about 2 way traffic there. i guess they have parallel sets of locks?

[RollLeft 5045]

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/as-if-you-needed-it-further-proof-that-houston-is-so-much-bigger-than-most-cities/

Does anyone have the map of Houston overlaying DFW that came out in the Chron about two years back.  It showed how Houston is as big as the entire metroplex.  Katy at 99 was aligned with where Ft Worth is located and our Downtowns being aligned.  

Edited November 23, 2020 by RollLeft

[Nice Guy Eddie 13528]

Apple TV has screen savers that pop up from time to time. Some of the scenes appear to be enhanced helicopter shots from above a city: Hong Kong, Dubai (marina or the street pictured above), NY, LA, etc.

a few times I catch myself staring at the screen saver, and then jumping on google maps to see if I can identify the exact spot. 

[NorthLoop 14254]

53 minutes ago, RollLeft said:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/as-if-you-needed-it-further-proof-that-houston-is-so-much-bigger-than-most-cities/

Does anyone have the map of Houston overlaying DFW that came out in the Chron about two years back.  It showed how Houston is as big as the entire metroplex.  Katy at 99 was aligned with where Ft Worth is located and our Downtowns being aligned.  

Houstonians will brag about this. Everyone else will throw up in their mouths just a little bit. 

[Parliament 14343]

that's interesting man.  never occurred to me to think about 2 way traffic there. i guess they have parallel sets of locks?

Yep, TWO sets of parallel locks. The old original set, and a new, bigger set opened in 2015 or so.

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

59 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Houstonians will brag about this. Everyone else will throw up in their mouths just a little bit. 

As a Houstonian, I agree, but those same Texas think maps showing how huge Texas is are supercool. Personally I don't understand why we are so impressed by the size of jurisdictions. As a kid I thought it was incredibly cool but now it seems irrelevant. Why does it matter that we are bigger than Colorado or California and smaller than Alaska? And yeah those Houston's so huge maps are very dumb. It's not like the average Houstonian lives in Katy and works in Baytown. The fact the metro area is huge has almost no effect on anyone living in it.

One thing that's sort of interesting about it is that Houston is one of the only sports markets where its fans are localized to that market. The Astros are the exception and back in the Luv Ya Blue / Warren Moon Austin kind of once was a toss-up between Oilers and Cowboys but that's not true today. Even as the Cowboys have been pitiful for decades, the Texans have been just as bad or worse, and have at least been entertaining as a soap opera while doing so. The Texans are just bad and boring. 

The Spurs are an absolute bar to any Rockets inroads into the South Texas territory they should be able to dispute with the DFW teams in other sports but don't for whatever reason. Spur fandom is among the most fanatical in all pro sports. 

 

MLB / Vivid Seats

 

NFL / Atlantic Monthly

 

NBA/Twitter

[Armybrat 40927]

2 hours ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

that's interesting man.  never occurred to me to think about 2 way traffic there. i guess they have parallel sets of locks?

Yes, they did when I first visited there in 1952.

The Chicoms recently finished new sets of larger locks. ( they “run” the Canal now.... thanks Jimmy Carter /cr)

[Armybrat 40927]

13 minutes ago, Parliament said:

2 hours ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

that's interesting man.  never occurred to me to think about 2 way traffic there. i guess they have parallel sets of locks?

Yep, TWO sets of parallel locks. The old original set, and a new, bigger set opened in 2015 or so.

Beat me to it.

[gsoda3 3283]

@MaybeACoordinator do you have the link to the NBA one?  

[NeverMarryAStripper 21950]

1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

Yes, they did when I first visited there in 1952.

The Chicoms recently finished new sets of larger locks. ( they “run” the Canal now.... thanks Jimmy Carter /cr)

When we finally do end up at war with them we won't be moving any naval assets from the Atlantic to the Pacific in time to be any help

[NorthLoop 14254]

3 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

When we finally do end up at war with them we won't be moving any naval assets from the Atlantic to the Pacific in time to be any help

I'm sure that would be primo target #1 for an attack for control

[Armybrat 40927]

59 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

I'm sure that would be primo target #1 for an attack for control

Ain't any Teddy Roosevelts around these days.

[Parliament 14343]

Beat me to it.

Shoulda been yours to say, as you dug that canal yourself.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21950]

1 hour ago, NorthLoop said:

I'm sure that would be primo target #1 for an attack for control

I would imagine that the canal locks will be in somewhat less than operating condition at the onset of hostilities

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

10 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

@MaybeACoordinator do you have the link to the NBA one?  

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/a/2015/nba-fans-where-are-your-team-s-followers.html

[tx ind 7013]

Not sure if in the spirit of the thread but these places are always interesting to read about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts,_Washington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Bend

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Angle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_irregularities_of_the_United_States

[Elvis 3375]

On 5/26/2020 at 8:12 PM, RDCanecutter said:

WW2 Topo Map Archive:

http://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A32223?fbclid=IwAR0oAVFhSYJ0sYJ7YDEUsHDkEHJWhy_SgpyMKwfg6KRb-Z9a51IxKbTgQlw

I read almost the entire aerial photography interpretation manual.  Truly amazing how well they used the technology.  You need an expert understanding of optics, photography, geometry and coordinate system transfers, and tons more.  Also, the photographers were typically also the belly gunners.  Fascinating.

[Bullneck 19217]

On 10/23/2018 at 7:45 AM, Wally Fairway said:

 

WTF - why is Michigan in Eastern Europe?

It's part of Canada.  See:

[Wally Fairway 5590]

2 hours ago, Bullneck said:

It's part of Canada. 

Well I've always called that Southern Canada, so it's not really wrong

[hornian 5229]

World Map, if you’re a fish:

 

[Jerry Callo 8735]

7 minutes ago, hornian said:

World Map, if you’re a fish:

 

World fish map is worthless without ocean currents.

[miguelito 11314]

"It's only an island if you look at it from the water."

[SquishMitten 10444]

Take off the grid lines, and that’s what it looks like for fish that are flat-oceaners

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

1 hour ago, SquishMitten said:

Take off the grid lines, and that’s what it looks like for fish that are flat-oceaners

i bet there are a lot of flat oceaners.  i can't really figure out how a fish would think otherwise.  there is no place where you can go straight and end up back at the start.  going around Antarctica requires you to turn constantly, so it doesn't "feel" like you're going straight.  you don't realize you're circumnavigating the globe. unless they really got into astronomy, flat oceaner beliefs really wouldn't have any push back.