Amazing maps

[Dr. Strangelove]

most searched cost obsessions by country

 

[Al Bhatti]

Who Drives on the Wrong Side of the Road? (blue = left)

Highest capacity stadium by country

The World's Atomic Powers.

The World Online. Map resizes countries by number of internet users

Cost of University in the EU

Electricity production from renewable sources

A Map of Every Device in the World That's Connected to the Internet

 

[Al Bhatti]

Bangladesh has the same population as the territories in green

Map showing how hairy men are around the world

Current world life expectancy at birth

The Astounding Drop in Global Fertility Rates Between 1970 And 2014

Map of immigration to Britain by local authority

 

[BDforever]

Bangladesh has the same population as the territories in green

@Al Bhatti wtf is that thing like octopus at the bottom in The depth of the ocean to scale pic?

 

[Al Bhatti]

@Al Bhatti wtf is that thing like octopus at the bottom in The depth of the ocean to scale pic?

I cannot see what you are pointing to

 

[BDforever]

I cannot see what you are pointing to

between 31,000ft and 36,000ft

 

[untitled]

@BDforever
Are you talking about the Antartic peninsula?

 

[Indus Pakistan]

I like the Idea ...

100 years of Russian rule and Soviet invetment in education has produced a more contemperory secular societies in Central Asia more in synch with Europe but I guess somethings are not so easy to change. Girls below in Uzbekistan wearing what are in effect Shalwar Kameez.

But then look at this

I guess our Mullah's would have plenty of work and killing to do to get these "kaffirs" in line .........

include azerbaijan as well

Not a "stan" and they would join Turkey .....

 

[Al Bhatti]

between 31,000ft and 36,000ft

@BDforever
Are you talking about the Antartic peninsula?

He is talking about this picture.

The depth of the ocean to scale

I zoomed in and could see there is something in the picture at the place he is pointing to. Don't know what it is. Maybe some sort of deep sea jellyfish or creature.

Maybe other members can explain more.

 

[Fenrir]

The Soviet Military’s Eerily Detailed Guide to San Diego

Team USA | Page 94

A 1980 map of San Diego made by the Soviet military. KENT LEE / EAST VIEW GEOSPATIAL

DURING THE COLD War, the Soviet military mapped the entire world in one of the most ambitious mapping projects ever undertaken (see this feature article for more about these amazing maps, and the unlikely group of scholars trying to figure out how they were made—and why). The maps are fascinating to look at, and for those of us who grew up during the paranoid days of the Cold War, seeing your hometown covered in cyrillic text is a bit unsettling.

But the Soviets didn’t stop at just making some of the most accurate and detailed maps of the day. Some of the medium scale maps of include extremely detailed descriptions of the area–everything from the load-bearing capacities of bridges to the paving materials of the roads. (Yes, comrade, they will accommodate your tanks!)

A Soviet map of Altan-Emel, a remote region of China near the border with Russia and Mongolia, for example, describes the monasteries and other settlements in the area: The houses are wattle and daub, (rarely stone or wooden); the yards are normally fenced with a wattle and daub wall 1-2 meters in height. There are detailed notes on the local climate: The summer has the most gloomy days a year (up to 10 gloomy days a month). In other places, the Soviet maps include details on the species, average diameter, and spacing of trees and the prevailing wind direction at different times of year.

In the US, the Soviets mapped many cities down to the level of individual buildings. In some ways, these maps surpass the ones our own government produced. Soviet maps of US Navy installations in San Diego, for example, include details not shown on maps made by the US Geological Survey around the same time.

The Naval Training Center in San Diego is shown in far more detail on a 1980 Soviet map (left) than on a 1979 USGS map of the same area. In both maps the training center is at bottom left. KENT LEE / EAST VIEW GEOSPATIAL; USGS

The Soviet map of San Diego also comes with a long block of text. Intrigued, we had it translated, and it is published below in English for the first time.

It includes information about the terrain and climate during the dry season (June to September), almost all rivers dry up, and in spring, during rainfalls, they turn into impetuous impassable ********. There is information about the transportation and telecommunications grids. The length of airport runways and depth of waterways are noted, as are the products of local farms and factories. There is information about the local Navy and Marine installations (not surprising), as well as information about which are the nice parts of town (somewhat more surprising): The streets and intra-block sites are lined with shrubbery.

The amount of detail suggests the maps were intended for more than just military planning. It seems like information that could come in handy during an occupation. Or, as Alexander Kent, a geographer who’s studied the maps thinks, the Soviets may have used the maps, in an era before computers, as a way to organize what they knew about the world both inside and outside their borders.

 

[Thorough Pro]

Either we have the lowest number of citizens involved in criminal activities or highest number of corrupt people in Police.

Prisoners per 100,000 people

 

[Al Bhatti]

Either we have the lowest number of citizens involved in criminal activities or highest number of corrupt people in Police.

Or our criminals consider the jails a their second home, they come and go as they wish.

 

[BDforever]

He is talking about this picture.



I zoomed in and could see there is something in the picture at the place he is pointing to. Don't know what it is. Maybe some sort of deep sea jellyfish or creature.

Maybe other members can explain more.

see above

@BDforever
Are you talking about the Antartic peninsula?

 

[bongbang]

 

[xenon54 out]