Do you like looking at maps?

[cochyn]

On 11/2/2018 at 2:54 PM, Gruntfuttock said:

 

This maybe of interest,

 

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=12&lat=53.4342&lon=-2.9484&layers=1&right=BingSat

 

Wow. You've literally turned me into a hermit. With a laptop.

[Chairman Meow]

A friend of someone I worked with was involved in setting that NLS thing up and used to let us get access to it in the very early stages. 

 

It's quite interesting looking at the maps around where I live and seeing all of the old coal mining sites which now have housing estates built on top of them.

 

Can't help but wonder how long it will be till the current PPI type phone calls are all replaced by "been sold a house on a site where it should never have been built in the first place? You could be owed some cash". 

[Anubis]

On 11/5/2018 at 11:13 PM, AngryofTuebrook said:

Bestiality is legal in the red states.

 

 

 

UK equivalent. Bestiality is legal in areas marked in dark green.

 

Lights touchpaper and sits back.....

 

 

[Anubis]

On 11/5/2018 at 11:13 PM, AngryofTuebrook said:

Bestiality is legal in the red states.

 

 

While waiting, checks flight timetables to to those states....

[VladimirIlyich]

7 minutes ago, Anubis said:

 

 

UK equivalent. Bestiality is legal in areas marked in dark green.

 

Lights touchpaper and sits back.....

 

 

It should just have Runcorn and Widnes coloured green.

[Moctezuma]

Population as 3d terrain

 

https://pudding.cool/2018/10/city_3d/

 

[Bjornebye]

6 hours ago, Moctezuma said:

Population as 3d terrain

 

https://pudding.cool/2018/10/city_3d/

 

Thats boss 

[Aventus]

[KMD7]

http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/download-67000-historic-maps-in-high-resolution-from-the-wonderful-david-rumsey-map-collection.html

 

Supposed to be free. Looks good.

 

 

 

 

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Download 67,000 Historic Maps (in High Resolution) from the Wonderful David Rumsey Map Collection

in Archives, Art, History | April 20th, 2016 7 Comments

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Stanford University’s been in the news lately, what with expanding its tuition waiver last year and now facing renewed scrutiny over its ultra-low admissions rate. These stories have perhaps overshadowed other Stanford news of a more academic nature: the arrival of the David Rumsey Map Center, which celebrated its grand opening yesterday and continues the festivities today and tomorrow. While these kinds of university improvements are rarely of much interest to the general public, this one highlights a collection worth giving full attention. Well, for those of us, that is, who love maps.

You do not need to be a Stanford student or faculty or staff member to access the vast treasures of the Rumsey Map collection, nor do you need to visit the university or its new Center. Since 1996, the Rumsey collection’s online database has been open to all, currently offering anyone with an internet connection access to 67,000 maps from all over the globe, spanning five centuries of cartography.

Rumsey’s holdings constitute, writes Wired, “the dopest map collection on Earth,” and though its physical housing at Stanford is a huge boon to academic researchers, its online archive is yours for the browsing, searching, and downloading, whoever and wherever you are.

 

 

Pages like the 1867 map “Twelve Perspectives on the Earth in Orbit and Rotation,” further up, contain detailed publication information, the ability to zoom in and examine the tiniest details, and an "export" function allowing users to download a variety of resolutions up to 12288 pixels. (The same holds true for all other maps.) There’s also a new feature for many maps called “Georeferencing” (see a short introductory video above), which matches the map’s contours with other historic maps or with more accurate, modern satellite images.

In the case of “Twelve Perspectives on the Earth in Orbit and Rotation,” the georeferencing function returns an error message stating “this is not a map.” But in terrestrial images, like the topographical map of the Yosemite Valley above, we can choose specific portions to georeference, use the “visualize” function to see how they match up to contemporary views, and conduct an accuracy analysis. (Georeferencing requires sign-in with a free account, or you can use your Google, Facebook, or Twitter log-ins.) Georeferencing is not available for all maps, yet. You can help the Rumsey collection expand the feature by visiting this page and clicking the “Random Map” link.

The Rumsey Collection contains a seemingly inexhaustible supply of cartographic images, such as the colorful aerial view of New York City from 1900, above, and the 1949 composite map of the Soviet Union, at the top of the post. In addition to the maps themselves---most works of art in their own right---the database is full of other beautiful images related to geography, such as the fabulous, full-color title page below for the 1730 Atlas Novus sive Tabulae Geographicae by Matthaeus Seutter.

David Rumsey—currently President of the digital publishing company Cartography Associates—began collecting maps and “related cartographic materials” in 1980. Since then, his physical collection has grown to include over 150,000 maps, to be housed at the Stanford Center that bears his name, and he has received several awards for making his collection available online. The cartography enthusiasts among us, and the hardcore scholars, can likely look forward to many more maps appearing in the web archive. For now, there’s no shortage of fascinating material.

On the site's homepage, they highlight these areas worth exploring:

The historical map collection has over 67,000 maps and images online. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of America, North America, South America, Europe,Asia, Africa, Pacific and the World.

Popular collection categories are celestial, antique atlas,globe, school geography,maritime chart, state,county, city, pocket, wall & case, children's, and manuscript maps. Search examples: Pictorial maps, United States maps, Geology maps, California map,Afghanistan map,America map, New York City map,Chicago map, andU.S. Civil War maps. Browse  map categories: What, Where, Who, When. The collection is used to study history, art, genealogy, explorations, and family history.

Get to browsing… and georeferencing….

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[Bjornebye]

This is great

 

https://pudding.cool/2019/06/people-map-uk/

 

 

[neko]

how many people have been shot near you ? (USA only obviously)

 

not sure if the map is shaking for everyone else, but still kind of cool...

 

https://www.thetrace.org/features/gun-violence-interactive-shootings-map/

[Bjornebye]

2 hours ago, neko said:

how many people have been shot near you ? (USA only obviously)

 

not sure if the map is shaking for everyone else, but still kind of cool...

 

https://www.thetrace.org/features/gun-violence-interactive-shootings-map/

Mental how more shootings there are in the Bronx compared to Manhattan. 

[Bjornebye]

http://www.warstateandsociety.com/Bombing-Britain

 

Was yer chippy really bombed? 

[Dougie Do'ins]

Map wont load for me.

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

Map wont load for me.

Same. Its been posted up on the daily heil site so probably got loads of tory twats walking over how many bombs landed in liverpool 

[Caramac]

On 31/07/2019 at 14:50, neko said:

how many people have been shot near you ? (USA only obviously)

 

not sure if the map is shaking for everyone else, but still kind of cool...

 

https://www.thetrace.org/features/gun-violence-interactive-shootings-map/

Chicago seems like its best avoided.

[Remmie]

A good quiz with interesting maps. I got 25/30:

 

https://www.sporcle.com/games/chair/30-maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world

[VladimirIlyich]

2 hours ago, Remmie said:

A good quiz with interesting maps. I got 25/30:

 

https://www.sporcle.com/games/chair/30-maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world

I'd like to try that,well I did try a few but its useless on my phone. The sporcle app used to be great.

[easytoslip]

Yes I do, maps are great, and those who mapped things out years ago without technology are great too, Mr Powell by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Ten men rode their way down the mighty Colorado is ok too.

[Bjornebye]

Decent this

 

https://www.farandwide.com/s/what-maps-get-wrong-5ac03541daa64ecc?utm_campaign=mapswrong-a08f5e69856d41f5&utm_source=twi&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=385714

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

South American flags.

[Moctezuma]

Map of wind patterns across the globe

 

https://www.windy.com/?54.155,-1.698,6

 

[Evelyn Tentions]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/30/show-with-the-flow-elevation-maps-reveal-world-rivers

Images of elevations of rivers.

 

[Moctezuma]

Map of geographic boundaries of the Welsh language in 1750

 

 

 

[Moctezuma]

 

Game hunting map, USSR 1939