The Illustrated Map of America’s Worst Utopias - The road to weird food communes and sex cults is paved with good intentions. by Lauren Young September 12, 2016
"There are many who want to believe that a utopia—a perfect society, an ideal world—can exist. Even in America..."
Or, America may just be too full of greedy, selfish asshats.
Dig a Tunnel Through the Center of the Earth to… Where?
If you, hypothetically, ignore the molten lava core. by Frank Jacobs, Big Think April 19, 2024
"...The title of the 1970s movie The China Syndrome refers to the idea that if you dig a hole through the Earth starting in the U.S., you end up in China. This map shows it ain’t so. In fact, only a little bit of China overlaps—and with the southern part of South America. Funnily enough, the good people of Argentina seem to have taken this into account when naming the city of Formosa, which is the antipode of Taiwan, the island off the Chinese coast formerly known as… Formosa. There’s almost no overlap in North America, none in Africa, and just a bit in Europe (the Iberian peninsula with New Zealand’s North Island)..."
@governa I do especially like @organicmaps as my backup mapping application, both for work and the side job. Both often involve going where there's little or no cell signal, so the ability to pre-download sections of map is HUGE. With the current #openstreetmap limitations in my area, it can't always get the fastest route, but so far always gets me there. Plus, it motivates me to get back into #osm to update the #maps and stay active.
Been thinking about rivers on maps in fantasy games. (hat tip to @kensanata ) Most fantasy maps show just a couple of rivers. But water is everywhere in the real world. This colorful map of England's rivers gives a hint. So making rivers on a fantasy map becomes a question of how much fidelity you want to portray.
Auf der Plattform Georeferencer stehen 1479 digitalisierte Kartenblätter aus dem historischen Bestand der #ethbibliothek bereit zur #georeferenzierung :
There is a wonderful period in the late 1950's and 60's where science fact and science fiction intermingle as enthusiasm for the space age was gaining momentum.
In this Solar System map (c. 1966) the latest views from the Mariner IV are mixed with a manned vehicle to Mars and views from the surfaces of numerous planets. There's and optimism that made things feel attainable.
Cool map showing the date of the most recent total eclipse for every point in Indiana. Made by the Holcomb Observatory & Planetarium at Butler University.
Great concept, and I'm wondering if anyone has seen a similar map for a larger area, ideally an interactive map for the entire world where you can see the year of the last eclipse wherever you are. The data is available, so surely someone has made such a map?