Australian government travel advice (As of April 2024) (lemmy.basedcount.com)
Legality of same sex relationship in Africa (lemmy.basedcount.com)
Official languages in Central and South America (lemmy.basedcount.com)
HDI projection of Brazilian states for 2023-2024 (lemmy.basedcount.com)
GDP per capita progress in South America (lemmy.basedcount.com)
Home ownership in European countries (2022) (lemmy.basedcount.com)
Voting on a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine conflict (lemmy.basedcount.com)
Education index (lemmy.basedcount.com)
Every building along the lines are connected via footbridges above ground. You can walk through them without crossing any roads. Sha Tin, Hong Kong (lemmy.cafe)
cross-posted from: lemmy.cafe/post/4448309...
Mercator: Extreme (mrgris.com)
An interactive playground to explore the extreme distortions of the Mercator projection. Set any point on Earth as the new North Pole. Warp the map in real-time. See the world in a whole new way.
Find your address on the pangea (endlesstalk.org)
Map of Scotland, by Perrin Remonté - https://www.perrinremonte.com/home-bis (images.squarespace-cdn.com)
Cartographer: www.perrinremonte.com/home-bis
The highest mountain in each country (preview.redd.it)
Sauna dress-code across Europe (preview.redd.it)
Per capita CO2 emissions by country 2022 (preview.redd.it)
Largest White ancestry in every US county, based on 2020 US Census (preview.redd.it)
Actual European Discoveries (web.archive.org)
by Bill Rankin
Placemark is going open source and shutting down (macwright.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/4010933...
The World's Map of Billionaires: inherited vs company founders vs executives (howmuch.net)
First map of Earth's lost continent has been published (www.indy100.com)
Land and water hemispheres - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
I feel like this explains a lot more of how I think about the the geography of the world today than any other map I’ve seen recently. This is why Australia seems strange and distant while China is familiar, despite the much higher language and culture affinity I have with post-colonial Australia.
Natural History Museum of London (www.nhm.ac.uk)
This is by far the most user friendly map of a museum I have ever seen. Out of the big four I’m visiting soon, the V&A’s map is terrible, the Science Museum’s is more like an ad brochure, and the British Museum’s is okay....