Fun with Maps

Check out this page of maps.  Fun stuff.  My favorite:


No wonder the sun never set on the British Empire.  Jeez.  Sweden, Belarus, Mongolia, a stan or two, Mail, Chad, Ivory Coast, CAR, Burundi, Rep of Congo, Bolivia, Paraguay, Guatemala, and some micro-European countries did not get invaded by the UK at some point.  They didn't like landlocked countries (also on the page of maps), apparently, as that is one of the unifying features of most of these places.  Once you rule the waves, I guess you end up trying to rule all the stuff that touches the waves. 

Anyhow, check out the various maps and highlight any that you think need some over-thinking.

Fun with Maps, Canadian style

Check out this page that explains the effort--to come up with provinces of equal population size. 



















Interactive version here.

The map is quite revealing--it reminds us of how much of the population is not only close to the border but in a few clusters--Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal are not surprising--but the other parts of southern Ontario as well.  Of course, given the resource distribution, don't expect anything like this to ever happen. Still, fun to ponder.

Cool Map

This here is a cool map.  I am too busy to think about it now, but perhaps my learned readers can offer a few thoughts to prime ye olde Spewe pumpe.

Interesting Map of the Week

Metal bands per capita!

So, what does this tell us?  Besides that the vikings of the past are metal-heads?  I would have guessed that metal would be less popular in the Mideast than in Sub-Saharan Africa.  I also would have guessed more metal bands per capita in the former Soviet space. 

Thanks to http://flowingdata.com/2012/04/09/metal-bands-per-capita/

Do notice that similarities of metal band density do not appear correlated with peace, unlike the McD's peace. What other social science observations can we glean from this?

Graphic of the Weekend

Check out this site which explains it and where you can magnify parts of it.  The US interstate system as a subway map.  Just very coo.