While browsing Facebook, I came across a link to a very interesting website that has 40 maps that try to help make sense of the world. Although some of the maps are less than interesting, I found that quite a few of them are very intriguing.

 

Enjoy!!!

Edited August 16, 201312 yr by Daedalus

Great find! Intriguing, astonishing and depressing all at once. OMG, Football Coaches?!

Coaches? Pffft they are just a distraction from the real issue. Rubber duckies!

Great find! Not sure which country needs to be more ashamed Britain with only 22 countries or USA with Maternity Leave/Football Coaches

Hmmm.... Has anyone else noticed a strong correlation between the following four maps posted on that website? Take a close look at Iceland, Norway, Sweeden, and Finland. Then compare North America, South America, Europe, Russia, and Australia. See what I mean?

 

The data might suggest that alcohol consumption

 

 

could lead to having sex at a younger age

 

 

which increases the number of researchers

 

 

who drink a lot of coffee...

 

Edited August 17, 201312 yr by Daedalus

Very good.

but one has to keep in mind that those maps may be confusing. The data are collected by country and extended over the entire territory. For example the data from the U.S. are extended over Alaska that is mainly desert. the same goes for Russia, China, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, etc. When the data concerns vegetation that is fine, but when it goes about consumption of coffee it does not give an accurate description of what is going on.

Very good.

but one has to keep in mind that those maps may be confusing. The data are collected by country and extended over the entire territory. For example the data from the U.S. are extended over Alaska that is mainly desert. the same goes for Russia, China, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, etc. When the data concerns vegetation that is fine, but when it goes about consumption of coffee it does not give an accurate description of what is going on.

 

I was joking and never intended for such correlation between the maps to be taken seriously. I was hoping the smiley hinted towards my intentions.

I enjoyed China's literal translations of European country names.

 

I was joking and never intended for such correlation between the maps to be taken seriously. I was hoping the smiley hinted towards my intentions.

My comment is not for your correlation (the smiley was obvious) but for the maps in general.

Professionals involved in mapping know very well how data can be misrepresented in so many cases and how careful must one be in order to make an objective map. Not to say that "objective map" is something that may not exist since from the right beginning when you make a map you have the purpose to show something (to say something) IOW it is like an argumentation, not simply a data.

Those are really cool. The GDP map is one of my favourites

 

The Great Pyramid in Egypt once reflected a Beautiful Map in the Heavens.

Those are really cool. The GDP map is one of my favourites

 

Woaw, a way to see the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on a world map!