Posts Tagged: maps

Today’s maps found on the interwebs. When a river changes course on its flood plain, it can leave an entire bend of the river cut off from the new flow, forming an oxbow lake. Seen in bright blue in this shot of the Songhua River in northeast China, they are usually narrow crescents. Found at… Read more »

Today’s maps found on the interwebs. When you take a photo from an airplane, the last thing you’d expect is for a complete and utter stranger to draw a load of squiggly lines over it. But, then again, the internet never fails to defy our expectations.  Found at https://mashable.com/2018/06/26/aerial-photo-london-tube/

Today’s maps found on the interwebs. You’ve likely seen maps of the earth with land and sea inverted, where Asia becomes the world’s greatest ocean and the Pacific a vast, sprawling continent. But high school geography teacher John M Adams took it a step further and explained what it would be like to live in… Read more »

Today’s maps found on the interwebs. The small but bright fissure at the left edge of Kilauea’s lava field can already be seen from space via infrared imaging, but it’s dwarfed by the magnitude of previously existing flows. Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/06/04/kilaueas-new-lava-flow-can-b.html

Today’s maps found on the interwebs. jamaps created a map that shows all the main roads in Britain and nothing else, giving the vague impression of something weirdly biological. Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/05/30/map-of-britains-roads-and.html

Today’s maps found on the interwebs. New Zealand is continually omitted from maps of the world. Seriously, there’s an entire Reddit thread highlighting examples of the country being completely wiped from global existence.  Found at https://mashable.com/2018/05/01/get-new-zealand-on-the-map/

Today’s maps found on the interwebs. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. “A new map of Great Britain.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1736. https://ift.tt/2HTr3Yo Found at https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-5230-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Today’s maps found on the interwebs. Nowadays most of us resort to our smartphones and Google Maps to help navigate us around unfamiliar places. But things were a little different for some of the world’s first explorers who used printed maps and atlases to guide them. Found at https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/lifestyle/a20115850/sothebys-auction-ancient-maps/

Today’s maps found on the interwebs. Title A geographically correct map of the state of Texas Additional title: Texas, the empire state of the great southwest Names Texas & Pacific Railway (Publisher) Collection Dates / Origin Date Issued: 1876 (Inferred) Place: Marshall, TX Publisher: Texas and Pacific Railway Company Library loc Found at https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7c49dc40-d2fe-0135-b8cb-45b777ad6911

Today’s maps found on the interwebs. There’s 142 Switzerlands there, since no one put the number in the comments. And, since Switzerland’s area is 41,285 km 2 and Brazil’s 8,515,767 km2, it’s actually a little over 206 times larger. Found at https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/8ee90c/how_many_switzerlands_fits_in_brazil_1100x1100/