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The incredible shrinking Utah. Finish the fight.
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Another proof for the Utah = Palestine theory
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Honj Steak posted:Another proof for the Utah = Palestine theory No, it's the magical shrinking Israel
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southeastern Idaho needs Right of Return
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straight borders are stupid as hell i mean all borders are, but ones that are just straight lines especially so
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gimme more weird permeable fractal poo poo like exclaves within exclaves
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Sep 16, 2022 18:45
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I maintain that we should have more calligraphy borders
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Sep 16, 2022 19:03
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everything based around circles like delaware
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All borders that don't follow natural barriers like mountain ranges, rivers, deserts, etc. are silly. Which is why Czechia has the best borders.
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Historically rivers specifically are often more of a main transport route than a barrier, though.
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Groke posted:Historically rivers specifically are often more of a main transport route than a barrier, though. And check out how many countries have mountains as the centre of their country rather than a border. Looking at you, Romania.
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Carthag Tuek posted:straight borders are stupid as hell You need a balance between straight lines and squiggles.  Canada has too many straight lines in its internal borders, and Mexico has too many squiggles. America is juuust right. (Hey, we have to get something right. Let us have this one. Please. Please let us have this meaningless question of map aesthetics.)
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texas is very aesthetically pleasing, easy to see why it's on so many belt buckles
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i say swears online posted:texas is very aesthetically pleasing, easy to see why it's on so many belt buckles Trying to imagine a Wyoming belt buckle
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Badger of Basra posted:Trying to imagine a Wyoming belt buckle How about Idaho?
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Lemniscate Blue posted:How about Idaho? *Bends forward* "Ow!"
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Straight lines make more sense for land that is largely undeveloped, since whatever natural features you think at the time will be a good border probably won't be what you expected by the time people do start living in that area in large amounts. Probably it'd be better if the borders didn't get frozen in stone at first conception so things could be redistricted to be more fair or sensible. Redrawing the borders would be a big huge fight from political interests jockeying for power, but then drawing the borders in the first place was a big huge fight of political interests jockeying for power, just the fight was long enough ago that everything has shifted and we've forgotten. Badger of Basra posted:Trying to imagine a Wyoming belt buckle 
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Powered Descent posted:You need a balance between straight lines and squiggles.
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lmao
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At first glance this looks like a broken belt buckle
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well something about it is broken
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Hey map nerds, is there any way to "turn back time" on Google Maps, like for instance, to see how long it would have taken me to drive from Marseille to Paris in 2010? Or how long it would have taken to drive from Dubrovnik to Split in 2021? Or is there even any easy way to see how the street plan of an area changed over time, without going to Street View for a hyper-specific spot, hoping they have multiple years, and clicking back and forth? Like specifically I've been driving the N57 highway in France for years (Besancon–Nancy) and there has been steady albeit incredibly slow progress on turning it from a regional highway into a full double-lane separated carriageway. My previous car was still using 2009 GPS maps so I would very clearly notice when the developments from 2009 to 2020 would shave like 15 minutes off my ETA, but now since I get automatic map updates, it'll be harder for me to notice e.g. how much of a difference it makes when they finish the new double carriageway directly at Besancon. For autoroutes, it's a little easier to find maps of the pre and post expansion, like in Switzerland before the recent completion of the trans-Jura A-16 and the glacial (no pun intended) construction of the upper Valais autoroute A-9, but for national routes it's like impossible to find anything. The closest I could find was this Wired article mentioning "Old Maps Online" ( https://www.wired.com/story/google-street-view-old-maps-online-travel-back-time/ ) but this goes like... too far back in time. Seemingly there is no way to go back in time for Google Maps even to previous years of data that they surely still have? Results for going back in time for Google Street View was polluting all of my searches on whether or not this is a thing that exists. E: I had already checked the time slider on Google Earth – that also doesn't change the roads, the road data overlay is as far as I can tell, always the most recent version, so I still have to know EXCATLY what I'm looking for and it's only slightly easier than going around on Street View. Like I can see that the Courrendlin highway bypass opened sometime between 10/2009 and 9/2016, which isn't very helpful since I already knew I had to look at that exact spot. Saladman fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Sep 17, 2022 |
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I can tell you where to get Open Street Map data from 2010. It’s here. Dealing with that data in a practical manner is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Platystemon posted:I can tell you where to get Open Street Map data from 2010. It’s here. I've looked at the internal format of OSM data once and ran away screaming.
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I did too. Trying to understand anything by looking at the raw DB isn't going to work, but it should be pretty feasible to just set up a renderer and point it to the snapshot that you want. I haven't actually done this myself so I dunno but check https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rendering
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Hmm, the Continental strategy of Aldi-North could have worked if they'd managed to confine Aldi-South to the Mediterranean, but their failure to seize the Suez has permitted their foe to access critical resource bases in the Anglosphere and China. On the other hand, the kingdom of Trader Joe's is in personal union with Aldi-North, offering them a possible avenue to countering this overseas offensive.
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It's not as clear cut, North America is in the middle of a partisan war as Aldi Nord has deployed its Trader Joe's guerillas. E:FB
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https://www.davidrumsey.com/ Map site. Can't be arsed to find some interesting ones, but some of y'all might be interested.
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Xelkelvos posted:https://www.davidrumsey.com/ Thanks!  link to the map where you can zoom Finland is just Russias fart, China is some sort of clock-obsessed pig and America is south of east asia for some reason Kamrat fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Sep 17, 2022 |
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What's wrong, it's not missing!
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Interesting depiction of Saudi Arabia.
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Herodotus discovered the Hyperaotearoans, setting in motion the events that caused the nine elevens.
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Google maps can't find any Aldis in French Guiana, though there is a restaurant named Saveur D'Aldi in Cayenne if you still want that Aldi flavour.
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Angepain posted:Google maps can't find any Aldis in French Guiana, though there is a restaurant named Saveur D'Aldi in Cayenne if you still want that Aldi flavour. Since French Guiana is not a colony or overseas territory but a part of Proper France, if you colour France on a map tool it will automatically get the same colour.
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