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Being from Italy, I found this map concerningโฆ Are we the wrong ones?
Being from Italy, I found this map concerningโฆ Are we the wrong ones?
map of the world 2200 years ago
A different kind of map:
the axis are latitudes and longitudes
the axis are latitudes and longitudes
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Every basketball court in the US (I couldn't find mine in Philly - too many)
https://pudding.cool/2024/09/courts/
https://pudding.cool/2024/09/courts/
Every hurricane trajectory ever recorded.
Thanks to the Coriolis force, none of them is allowed to cross the equator line.
Thanks to the Coriolis force, none of them is allowed to cross the equator line.
https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html
Fun tool, except they wouldnโt let me use my last name! Bad word!
Fun tool, except they wouldnโt let me use my last name! Bad word!
Early map of the world (circa 500 BC)
Good map account as of late, highly recommend a follow on the bird app. https://x.com/StatisticUrban/status/1836406957185400898
i found this little map shop off Athanase Gribaudo Vandamme in paris - it was filled from top to bottom with original, vintage maps. the map store store was its own little world -- a hidden gem amongst modern shops and markets with not a single inch to spare
im a sucker for anything vintage. im used to searching for that needle in a haystack, once in a lifetime find so this little store -- was in itself -- a find.
im a sucker for anything vintage. im used to searching for that needle in a haystack, once in a lifetime find so this little store -- was in itself -- a find.
I love looking at alternative US maps where โstatesโ are redrawn to have more valid borders than the arbitrary ones that exist today
https://x.com/statisticurban/status/1828623681322655800?s=46
https://x.com/statisticurban/status/1828623681322655800?s=46
Last name of married women around the world
Fanta (but any soda actually) is not the same in every country.
The true size of countries
US cultural regions
Beer prices in Europe
Paris overlayed with SF. Nearly same size, I had no clue.
Ht Urbanlifesigns
Ht Urbanlifesigns
apparently tim walz is one of us https://x.com/jsrailton/status/1821190417645473982?s=46