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System Metternich posted:Is there any serious push in the UK to get rid of FPTP? No, that died for the forseeable future when the Alternative Vote referendum failed.
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Technocrat posted:Two different maps illustrating the same results from yesterday's election The Guardian picture is a fat man, with a mustache, a goatee, and a top-knot, wearing red and blue overalls, sitting on his rear end while contemplating a levitating turnip.
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I was going to post that Guardian map if no one else did. It's hilariously hideous. Even though it's less bulbous and illegible than the US equivalent, I still can't read read it worth a drat because, as an American, a huge chunk of the map is just "somewhere in the Midlands" to me. Also, I had no idea South Wales was that much more populous.
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Duckbag posted:I was going to post that Guardian map if no one else did. It's hilariously hideous. Even though it's less bulbous and illegible than the US equivalent, I still can't read read it worth a drat because, as an American, a huge chunk of the map is just "somewhere in the Midlands" to me. A full third of North Wales is Snowdonia, which while beautiful and great for hiking, climbing, or cycling, doesn't contain many votes.  gwlad Duw :cryingdragon:
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Cat Mattress posted:The Guardian picture is a fat man, with a mustache, a goatee, and a top-knot, wearing red and blue overalls, sitting on his rear end while contemplating a levitating turnip. The Daily Mail is bloodstained Maggie Simpson.
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Cat Mattress posted:The Guardian picture is a fat man, with a mustache, a goatee, and a top-knot, wearing red and blue overalls, sitting on his rear end while contemplating a levitating turnip. 
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Technocrat posted:Two different maps illustrating the same results from yesterday's election And the BBC presents the current results as simply one equal size hexagon for every constituency.
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fishmech posted:And the BBC presents the current results as simply one equal size hexagon for every constituency. OK, I take back everything bad I said about the Guardian map. At least that one had identifiable cities besides London.
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Jun 9, 2017 15:56
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I mean, that type of map is not made to be geographically accurate at all, that's not the point. The point is to visually show the real weight of each party and region in the parliament, which is very warped in a normal map in favor of the territorially larger constituencies. I like it. 
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A map doesn't necessarily need to be accurate to geographic scale, as subway/bus/metro maps have understood. So sometimes you can find maps which have been deformed for a reason or another. Typical example are maps scaled by wealth or by population, probably already posted somewhere in the 1000+ pages of this thread. 
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Duckbag posted:OK, I take back everything bad I said about the Guardian map. At least that one had identifiable cities besides London. The other cities of the UK are positively tiny compared to London.
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fishmech posted:The other cities of the UK are positively tiny compared to London. Yeah, I already knew that, thanks. What I'm saying is that if I wanted to know at a glance how, say, Leeds voted, the Daily Mail map is the one I'd use because the others distort geography too much. The Guardian map helpfully labels the big cities at least, but the BBC one feels like a district map and a pie chart got together and did something unspeakable. I can tell the big red blob in the corner is Yorkshire, but I'd just be guessing for most of the rest of England. E: I just noticed Leeds actually is labeled on the Guardian map. I blame low res phone posting. Also maybe I don't know where Yorkshire is? Pretend I said something else and also wasn't an idiot. Duckbox fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Jun 9, 2017 |
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Duckbag posted:Yeah, I already knew that, thanks. What I'm saying is that if I wanted to know at a glance how, say, Leeds voted, the Daily Mail map is the one I'd use because the others distort geography too much. The Guardian map helpfully labels the big cities at least, but the BBC one feels like a district map and a pie chart got together and did something unspeakable. I can tell the big red blob in the corner is Yorkshire, but I'd just be guessing for most of the rest of England. It's just saying that if i wanted to put a nail in a board, this saw would be a terrible tool for it. Different maps have different uses, some show where people voted what, others show how nay voted what and yet others show how many of each party got elected. The latter two might possibly have som crossover with pie charts though.
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The worst thing about that map is that it uses basically the same shade for Sinn Fein and Green
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Elyv posted:The worst thing about that map is that it uses basically the same shade for Sinn Fein and Green
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 This map hits all the right notes, but for some reason I think that in a real cliché-ridden fantasy novel the individual places would be nearer/farther to each other than they're depicted here. Like, the northern wall would probably be a more prominent feature, and Elvenhome would 100% be somewhere out west
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It's a nice tip of the hat to Tolkien who invented this kind of thing, I guess. And really this is just a parody of that, but so are most fantasy maps, so, alright.
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fishmech posted:And the BBC presents the current results as simply one equal size hexagon for every constituency. Of course the BBC would show Scotland and Wales and not ENGLAND :911 but english:
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Peanut President posted::911 but english: 
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Lord Hydronium posted:The river that never flows to the nearby coast and somehow heads back into the mountains is a nice touch. a wizard did it
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System Metternich posted:
This one reminds me of the Teddy Ruxpin map. https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/teddyruxpin/images/a/a8/Map_of_Grundo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130819174138
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 Note: the plain circle design is also the design that was originally meant to be the standard, and is often used for a state route on both paper and online maps for simplicity's sake.
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Indiana made a huge mistake getting rid of their state shaped ones back in the old days.
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Utah: Let's make it a tit.
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Plebian Parasite posted:Utah: Let's make it a tit. it's not their fault that you're too perverse to enjoy the simple pleasures of the beehive state
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Hawaii: "What did New Jersey do? Do the OPPOSITE OF THAT!"
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Cat Mattress posted:A map doesn't necessarily need to be accurate to geographic scale, as subway/bus/metro maps have understood. So sometimes you can find maps which have been deformed for a reason or another. Typical example are maps scaled by wealth or by population, probably already posted somewhere in the 1000+ pages of this thread. I love maps like these because Canada and Russia's population densities are so low they turn into black holes and bend half the map around themselves. I do feel that leaving the oceans and Antarctica untouched is cheating.
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A day's firefight's in Rio, tracked trough a collaborative reporting app funded by amnesty international
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bagual posted:A day's firefight's in Rio, tracked trough a collaborative reporting app funded by amnesty international What do the numbers mean? Number of people involved? Number of casualties?
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bagual posted:A day's firefight's in Rio, tracked trough a collaborative reporting app funded by amnesty international I spent about a minute wondering why Rio is so flammable.
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Pakled posted:What do the numbers mean? Number of people involved? Number of casualties? I think it's actually a weekly, not daily, but it's total firefights reported through the app by neighborhood
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Cat Mattress posted:The Guardian picture is a fat man, with a mustache, a goatee, and a top-knot, wearing red and blue overalls, sitting on his rear end while contemplating a levitating turnip. From around Brexit 
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bagual posted:A day's firefight's in Rio, tracked trough a collaborative reporting app funded by amnesty international Seems like you want to live across the bay and not in Rio proper.
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Phlegmish posted:Seems like you want to live across the bay and not in Rio proper. I think that's true for many reasons
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HookShot posted:Hawaii: "What did New Jersey do? Do the OPPOSITE OF THAT!" I think you meant opposite of Virginia or Oregon there.
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fishmech posted:
Fun fact: DC Route 295, the example sign shown for the District, is actually the only District Highway. All other signed routes in the District are US Highways or Interstate Highways. 
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Those signs are important so that the makers of movies and TV shows can tell people where something is set.
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