There’s A Map For That (21 Interesting Pics)

Now maps are apps, but it used to be a 27’x27′ piece of paper folded up in your dad’s glovebox. We’ve come a long way.

Maps are incredible now. With the ability to make them on computers mixed with the sheer amount of knowledge we’ve amassed, you can pack a lot of information into one. Here are the 15 best I found this week.

1. How much snow it takes to cancel school.

2. I made a world flag map in Minecraft! Took me all of quarantine.

3. Air Traffic Control Zones in the Contiguous US

4. Brazil’s northernmost point is closer to every country in the Americas than to Brazil’s southernmost point.

5. Two maps showing the correlation between areas where the 1936 military coup against the democratic government initially succeeded and the 2019 national Spanish elections. Via @simongerman600 on Twitter.

6. The Cretaceous Period (145 to 66 million years ago) seashore in Alabama vs how Alabama voted in the 2016 election.

7. The westernmost point of China is closer to Germany than it is to the easternmost point of China.

8. Where Californians think Northern California begins (based off of where they live: Red Bluff, Redding, or Merced)

9. How many times Metallica went to every country.

10. What pedestrans look like across Europe.

11. Ottoman Empire at its peak in 1683.

12. The Holy Roman Empire in 1355

13. A Cartographer named Kim Jeong-ho walked the entirety of the Korean peninsula through every mountain and valley for years to produce an extremely precise, gigantic map of Korea (대동여지도) in 1861.

14. Which countries’ leaders speak english.

15. Relief map of south-western Europe.

16. A map of all the airports in the world, using the plate carrée projection because I am lazy.

17. Here’s a map of Finland in the style of Super Mario World !

18. A Tour of Paris — US Edition

19. 3D Rendered Relief Map of California’s 2020 Wildfire Boundaries

20. TIL Melbourne is closer to Antarctica than it is to Darwin.

21. Metal bands per 1 million inhabitants in Latin America.

More cool charts & maps:

• There’s A Map For That (18 Interesting Pics)
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