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35 Informative Maps People Shared On This Group That Might Change Your Perspective On Things (New Pics)
Where would you start if you were looking for a treasure? Well, from what we learned in Jumanji, we probably need a map. In fact, maps, the precious representation of information, are key to so many secrets of the world, whether it’s the Earth, our history, politics, sociology, or anything, really.
Thanks to this corner of Reddit known for being the ultimate destination for fans of cartography, we can devour an endless variety of maps that all differ in information, style, size and other features. With 1.8 million members of the community, it’s now turning into one of those Reddit powerhouses that gives the best of online content.
Scroll down through the new batch of maps below and after you’re done, be sure to share our previous posts with the most unique and informative diagrammatic representations you may not have even known existed, here, here and here.
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#1
The Baltic Way. On 23 August 1989, Two Million People Joined Their Hands To Form A Human Chain Spanning 675.5 Km Across The Three Baltic States. The Protest Was Against The Soviet Occupation, And To Support The Independence Movements Of The Three States
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#3
Cyclist Recreates Nirvana’s “Nevermind” Album Cover
Bored Panda reached out to the subreddit’s founder Patrick to find out how Reddit's cartography powerhouse has been doing since we last spoke a while ago. He describes himself as “a Denver-based techno-geek with a focus on all things geospatial and cartographic and a coding hobbyist with an emphasis in geospatial applications.”
“The subreddit has been stable the last few months, however, that all changed this morning with the news out of Ukraine of the military action there,” he said. “The subreddit usually has between 2,000 and 4,000 users at a given moment on a normal day. That number spiked to a peak of over 20,000 users looking for current maps of the situation there.”
#4
Topography Of China
#5
All Roads Lead To Rome. This Map Is Visualises The Famous Roads Built By The Roman Empire
#6
Atheists Are Prohibited From Holding Public Office In 8 US States
Patrick believes that the way people think of cartography is changing. “The previous generation was accustomed to paper maps that they used to navigate. This required skills in orientation and awareness that are no longer necessary with digital maps on mobile devices. Whilst there are lots of articles that eulogize the loss of these skills, I don't think it's necessarily all bad.”
#7
The Topography Of Ukraine
Turnip and a Frog 2 years ago
Russian attack on the Ukraine started today at night. I'm devastated.
#8
Map Showing Netherland's Progress In Flood Management (Source: Earthmagazine)
#9
Is Escape A Crime?
According to Patrick, the history of cartography is full of changes in how maps are created and used. And right now, “we're seeing another shift in response to the digital age.” The sub’s founder explained that “the digital generation has a heightened awareness of how maps can visualize data. The tools to make maps have been democratized. This has increased interest in finding new and clever ways to see spatial data.”
“I think the hottest trends are in maps that elucidate some sort of political understanding. These can be maps of elections, voting districts, gerrymandering, political recognition, voting patterns, etc. Social media is engineered to spur controversy and this is most apparent in hot button political topics. Politically themed content will garner more discussion, controversy and comments than most other topics.”
#10
All The Countries That Have Gained Independence From Great Britain
#11
Beavers In Europe, 1900 And 2021
Otter 2 years ago
That's fantastic! Beavers are a "keystone species", that make massive contributions to the health of forests, wetlands, waterways, and even water tables! The American West is the place where they're needed most, they were almost killed off by fur traders and other interlopers, and if we had more beavers... we'd have less drought and fewer wildfires.
#12
Most Popular Language On Duolingo
Patrick is a member of #maptime Denver, Rocky Mountain Map Society, NACIS, PLSC, Charles Close Society and Open Street Map Foundation. So he always has a new project up his sleeve. Right now he’s working on building a plugin for QGIS, an open-source map-making software.
“The topic is map projection distortion. We all know that flat maps distort the shape of the Earth. However, visualizing this is quite difficult. My plugin will work so that a user can input a projection and a given region. The output will be a map overlay that shows where the scale is closest to true and where it falls below a given threshold,” he told us and added that he’ll be happy to share it when it's finished.
#13
Countries With A Higher Life Expectancy Than The United States
#14
The New Longest Possible Train Journey In The World
#15
The Red Part Contains More People Than The Blue Put Together
#16
Russian Military Build-Up Around Ukraine
#17
A Map Visualizing The Armenian Genocide - Started 106 Years Ago
#18
World Map, But It’s Centered On Buenos Aires, Argentina
#19
London's Piccadilly Tube Station. Piccadilly Circus Is A Road Junction And Public Space Of London's West End In The City Of Westminster. It Was Built In 1819 To Connect Regent Street With Piccadilly
#20
Countries That Have, Or Have Had, Openly Gay Heads Of Government
Beverly Hasegawa 2 years ago
That should read "European countries." New Zealand has had a gay head of state.
#21
This Is A Really Fascinating Map. Languages Of Europe Around 600 Ad
#22
World Map According To China In 1799
#23
US States In Which Homosexuality Was Illegal From 1962 To 2012
#24
Map Of The 2191 Meter Deep Krubera Cave. The Deepest Known Cave System In The World
#25
This Is The Farthest Place On Earth From Any Ocean
Vicky Zar 2 years ago
Google: "The most distant point from an ocean is the Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility (or "EPIA") 46°17′N 86°40′E, in China's Xinjiang region near the border with Kazakhstan. Calculations have shown that this point, located in the Dzoosotoyn Elisen Desert, is 2,645 km (1,644 mi) from the nearest coastline."
#26
% Of Europeans Who Would Fight For Their Country
#27
Map For Halloween - Every Castle In Europe
Kira Okah 2 years ago
The last time this map was on here, it got torn to shreds about its sheer inaccuracy. It doesn't classify most actual castles as castles, especially in the UK and Spain, but it does count palaces and chateaux (which includes mansions and large stately homes in France only). I live a five minute walk from an actual bloody castle and it is not on this.
#28
Most Obese Countries
#29
Age Of Women At Birth Of Their First Child (Europe)
Andy Acceber 2 years ago
Fascinating if this map could be compared with ones from 50 and 100 years ago.
#30
School Shootings In Europe Since 2010
Roxy Eastland 2 years ago
There has been one school shooting in UK history. Google Dunblane shooting. An adult man went into a primary school and shot five year old children and their teacher. British people, including those that owned hand guns for legitimate reasons, were so horrified, and also so concerned about 'becoming like America' that gun laws were tightened considerably. I know gun owners that willingly handed in their guns during the gun amnesty because to them five year old children not being shot in the face was more important than their right to own a gun. And we have had no school shootings since. Yes of course we have problems with violence, and with disaffected youth, but nothing matches the deaths that can be caused in moments by someone with a gun. School stabbings happen (and that is horrible and needs to be properly addressed) but they are only one person attacked.
Got Myself 4 Dwarves 2 years ago
I remember dunblane happening and the massive changes to schools in Scotland after it, all the outside doors were then locked once class started and you had to announce why you were there, who you were etc before being allowed to enter - before that all the doors were open all day. It happened the year my sister was due to start school - happened in March, by time she went in august all the doors had entry systems installed. So many changes happened as a result of it happening once, but in the US it's a regular thing yet nothing is ever done but "thoughts and prayers" - what use is that?
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Naesil 2 years ago
I cant bother counting the whole list from US but I estimate that there is about 10 times more school shootings in US than Europe + Russia combined.
Mat O'Dowd 2 years ago
I did the compilation, the figure from February 5th 2010 to February 8th 2022 is : 278 In comparison, this map lists 24 shooting in Europe since 2010, sadly you are right, more than 10 times. Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
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Iifa A. 2 years ago
Just to note the map counts 0 shootings 1 shooting 2 shootings 6 shootings. Russia also is way bigger than this map. And compared to USA this is nothing as six shootings probably happened this month. The map above is for last 10+ years. Also to note Estonia had one school shooting, it was such a shock to everyone that we really didn't know what to do. But I was 12 when I had classes inside the schools shooting range. Great class, many children learn in school. It's part of PE class, whatever you call sport where you ski and must shoot target.
Vicky Zar 2 years ago
Why am I not surprised? I think these kind of things are more likely to happen in countries where people are unhappy because of oppression or other negative factors.
Tamra Stiffler 2 years ago
The ones who can affect gun laws are, in fact, NOT listening. The gun situation here isn't changing any time soon, not as long as politicians can be bought.
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Person #1,051 2 years ago
The US, meanwhile has had over 400... https://abc7news.com/school-shootings-how-many-shooting-incidents-california/5697308/
ZAPanda 2 years ago
well it's a common mistake, some small guy with a black moustache made it a few decades ago as well.
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Dave P 2 years ago
misleading because it is based off of different metics for how school shooting is defined. For example in 2018 there were 3 incidents of students opening fire in a school during school hours in Germany, but none classified as school shootings by the German govt. In the US for example, any firearms discharge in a school building during school hours is a school shooting (outside of official marksmanship classes in certain regions)
mulk 2 years ago
What if they make a USA map with "school/daycare stabbings" too ?
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#32
Piracy In The 21st Century
#33
Grading System In Europe
#34
Most Frequent Causes Of Deaths For 50 To 69-Year-Olds. @realworldmaps
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Stoopham McFernybabes 2 years ago
This is really not very well constructed and is missing data, explanations etc.
April Stephens 2 years ago
Since anyone can write for Bored Panda, would you like to write a better article? ☺️ I would enjoy reading one with more detailed information to go along with the maps!
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Your Cousin Vinny 2 years ago
If these overly critical, pseudo intellectuals are so upset about what is presented here, then by all means please rewrite this post. It will give other overly critical, pseudo intellectuals something to criticize. For me, and I'm sure many others, I thoroughly enjoyed this post. Finding and posting all of this interesting information took a lot of time and effort that I appreciate. Keep up the good work, we're counting on you!
Stoopham McFernybabes 2 years ago
This is really not very well constructed and is missing data, explanations etc.
April Stephens 2 years ago
Since anyone can write for Bored Panda, would you like to write a better article? ☺️ I would enjoy reading one with more detailed information to go along with the maps!
Load More Replies... Your Cousin Vinny 2 years ago
If these overly critical, pseudo intellectuals are so upset about what is presented here, then by all means please rewrite this post. It will give other overly critical, pseudo intellectuals something to criticize. For me, and I'm sure many others, I thoroughly enjoyed this post. Finding and posting all of this interesting information took a lot of time and effort that I appreciate. Keep up the good work, we're counting on you!
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