Map Enthusiasts

We need some state names for these. A few -stans would be appropriate as well.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/24741542

TL;DR: India, China, US, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil. Aggregated percent of total: 50.4

Source: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-homes-in-western-states-so/comments?triedRedirect=true

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46809135

The stop killing games campaign is about preventing game publishers from intentionally destroying their games after official support ends.

Sign here:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Thousand

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/post/92262

The Leo Belgicus (Latin, 'Belgic Lion') was used in both heraldry and map design to symbolize the former Low Countries (current day Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and a small part of northern France) with the shape of a lion.

2,810 × 4,000 pixels:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Leo_Belgicus_%28Dutch-Belgic_Lion_of_the_Low_Countries%29_Famiano_Strada_c1647.jpg

Academic study on the use of the octopus metaphor to represent grasping, controlling invasive entities etc. Examines many examples.

Conspiratorial thinking can connect many distinct or distant ills to a central cause. This belief has visual form in the octopus map: a map where a central force (for instance a nation, an ideology, or an ethnicity) is depicted as a literal or figurative octopus, with extending tendrils. In this paper, we explore how octopus maps function as visual arguments through an analysis of historical examples as well as a through a crowd-sourced study on how the underlying data and the use of visual metaphors contribute to specific negative or conspiratorial interpretations. We find that many features of the data or visual style can lead to “octopus-like” thinking in visualizations, even without the use of an explicit octopus motif. We conclude with a call for a deeper analysis of visual rhetoric, and an acknowledgment of the potential for the design of data visualizations to contribute to harmful or conspiratorial thinking.

Via Metafilter:

• https://www.metafilter.com/209159/The-Octopus-of-Persuasive-Cartography

Source: https://landgeist.com/2022/04/12/spirits-consumption-in-europe/

Other maps on the same topic from the source:

New Zealand doesn't exist, as usual.

Edit: Swapped image link.

Original link: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/9a23037f-23da-44ea-ad39-c7a3147a935c.png

RIP lemm.ee

Good luck reading Dutch: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Tichelaar

Located in London, I measured the RTT or round trip time to 574,691 random webservers and plotted the times on the globe.

Discovery was done with masscan, measurements using hping and plotting with an old Python script I've revived and enhanced.

~~This is part of the next writeup on my blog, with which I will be posting any of the code I've used.~~

Full write-up and code

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