Alert: The Maps Thread

Judging from the last few posts it's obvious none of you are Rocket Surgeons!

 

It's the carburetor!

 

Is it typical in southern hemisphere countries to use maps oriented with the north on top?

 

Yes, at least it was in New Zealand. But you do occasionally find the southern hemisphere on top, but it is often more of a novelty.

 

What does Asia have to do with it?

 

It's a Minor problem.

 

Some nice pics of a young Jimmy Page in there.

 

Where Mama Mia was born....

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...px-Italy_provincial_location_map_2016.svg.png

 

Which kingdom?

 

Tornadu!

 

I don't like this one because the distortions are just so big. With a Mercator projection you only need a single mental model to convert it to a globe - just remember that the top and bottom lines are points. This has so much stretching and pinching I can't get back to a globe from there.

Mercator is designed for navigation, and there's a reason why Google Maps and other mapping software uses that projection when you are zoomed out. If you want a projection that captures the look and area of the land masses, I think you need some kind of polyhedral projection where you don't try to project the whole of the Earth to a plane, but instead project parts of the globe to separate planes and then tack those together. I like the Cahill one myself.



which sticks the strong deformations in the oceans. You can pretty obviously see how to fold this thing back into a "globe". The Goode projection also works for me.

EDIT: There are lots of polyhedral projection systems, but they are all based on regular polygons. If I were to make a spejic projection system, I would use irregular ones to get the best views of the land and completely screw the oceans.

 

As ones who have defied the odds me 'n @usscouse could offer up a few errant posters here to keep the average current!

 

Last ones I saw put the US at 74.4 years. This one seems pretty optimistic. Still Roby and I are both quite a few years over our shelf life. With mental acuity far better than the pretender King Donald.
Having said that, I had this vindictive teacher who made my life a misery some 75 years or so ago. Wondering if I could have him prosecuted for child abuse. Probably too late now.

 

American rivers visually displayed according to flow rate.

 

Here is the Memorial Bridge over the Connecticut River that I was on when my Billie told me we were gonna have twins. I barely made it across!

 

So you were all taught in grade school that tides look like this, right?



Well, that's fake. What tides look like is this (blue being little difference between high and low tide, red being big difference between high and low tide);

 

You know, that makes a shit-ton more sense. I've always wondered about how tidal ranges at the same latitude could be so different (e.g. the US east coast vs Spain/Portugal). I'd be curious what that would look like if it were extrapolated to a globe.