Pointless & Interesting Topical Maps

[LadyLocust]

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I’m guessing the brown is Mexican not Spanish.

 

[Tacitus]

I’m guessing the brown is Mexican not Spanish.

Well, it is a map of "White Americans" by their ethnicity, and most Mexicans are not classified as white, rightly or wrongly. So, I'm guessing Spanish is the "white" ethnicity in those areas.

Obviously, at some point, these distinctions become silly. I come from a family of which half claims to be German and half claims to be Irish...but I suspect that if Germans from Germany, and Irish from Ireland, heard them, they would just shake their heads, and say, "Really? Please. You folks are American, not German or Irish."

 

[Tacitus]

I call shenanigans! New York has over 450 wineries.

Yeah. Those numbers are off. No doubt about it.

 

[d_marsh]

 

[Supervisor42]

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Wow! Can we boot out the homeless, or what!

 

[LadyLocust]

Wow! Can we boot out the homeless, or what!

You must have sent them up here.
The numbers would be interesting. Like in Vermont (? Is that where it was up there?). 200+%. It’s so cold in winter, they might have gone from 3 to 7 instead of somewhere warmer that has only gone up 30% but from 10,000 to 13,300.

 

[d_marsh]

 

[Supervisor42]

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We got our own category?!

 

[LadyLocust]

We got our own category?!

And it’s not illegal

 

[Supervisor42]

And it’s not illegal

Yeah, I forgot we had coal, even though back in the day, I worked on equipment in that industry.
The other one never talked about, is our salt production:

The Cote Blanche salt mine is the largest producer of Louisiana's three major salt mines and produces nearly 15% of America's highway deicing salt. ... .The states that produce the most salt are Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. May 13, 2024.

I can testify... salt eats equipment.
...Worked on those too.

 

[Amish Heart]

Wow, so many ambulatory health care services, my state included. I've never really noticed anything unusual. The ambulance comes from the next town over to us when I call.

 

[d_marsh]

I dated a curvy woman from Wisconsin once who could drink me under the table, so I am calling this legit.

50 Drunkest Counties - Binge Drinking

 

[Peanut]

I concur… lots of drunk people in Rochester MN and Wisconsin.

I once saw an unusual bachelorette party tradition in bars there. The party went from bar to bar… the bride to be wore 2 cotton string necklaces. Tied to one were dozens of tootsie pop mini’s, tied to the other were pieces of bubble gum.

The bride then approached every guy in the bar and said “blow or a suck for a buck”. The guy choose, paid $1 and got bubble gum or a tootsie pop.

The idea was to make extra cash for… whatever!!!! Yep, lots of drunken fun!

 

[d_marsh]

 

[LadyLocust]

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Wow @Supervisor42 you got your own category again

 

[Supervisor42]

Wow @Supervisor42 you got your own category again

...Of course, they never say what percentage were 'bad guys' taken down.
Cajuns can shoot!

 

[Pearl]

Wow @Supervisor42 you got your own category again

The humidity makes them crazy

 

[UserNameTaken]

Not sure if one like this was posted yet, so here.
European cities in place of NA cities for latitude.

 

[zoomzoom]

Not sure if one like this was posted yet, so here.
European cities in place of NA cities for latitude.

Interesting, all over the board!
Places like Istanbul that are hot and dry sit in a local like Cleveland. Ditto for Tehran as it's sitting in Charlotte NC.

 

[LadyLocust]

Not sure if one like this was posted yet, so here.
European cities in place of NA cities for latitude.
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There’s no Milan OR or Zurich WA. There is a Zurich insurance company but it’s in or near Seattle. There is also a Malin OR but it’s along the southern border not in the Portland area.

 

[d_marsh]

 

[UserNameTaken]

Trucking traffic across the US.

 

[Binky]

I don't know how to post the picture, here is the link to interactive map showing continental smoke and fire detector

https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

 

[zoomzoom]

I use this site a lot to track aircraft.
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

Here's a current snapshot of flights over the USA right now.

 

[zoomzoom]

Zooming in a little, this is current traffic in the NYC to Wash DC area.
NYC is top right, DC is bottom left.

 

[Neb]

There’s no Milan OR or Zurich WA. There is a Zurich insurance company but it’s in or near Seattle. There is also a Malin OR but it’s along the southern border not in the Portland area.

I didn't verify so...

I believe those cities represent the latitude only. The longitude is arbitrary. The intent is to illustrate how far north south the actual cities are.

Ben

 

[Jen]

No, I didn't mean topographical. This isn't landnav training.

I come across these all the time, some are interesting, some are stupid, many contain suspect data. But every time I post them, they seem to bring out some good conversation, so I decided I would create a thread to discuss them just the same.

I am going to begin with a life expectancy map allegedly documenting the counties where people live past 80 years. It seems Southern food may take years off your life.

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I am in Oklahoma where, apparently, no one lives past 80. We will move to Minnesota when hubs retires. Hopefully neither of us have approached 80 by then.

 

[Jen]

DUMBS - Deep Underground Military Base System

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Wow. I expected more in the north-central states and Texas and way less in New Mexico. I thought Colorado would be the hottest spot.

 

[Jen]

Memphis Dry Rub for the Win

Texas is the best hands down.

 

[Jen]

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This is why we love Oklahoma.