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Here's a site with some real cool maps with a sprinkle of intercourse..

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-th...the-world/

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That was pretty cool man

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Here's a funny one I saw the other day..
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I don't understand this one:


   

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About the map Parlay posted..Notice the Dominican republic isn't colored up...I guess they didn't want to bring the age lower than 15

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(08-26-2013 09:34 AM)el mechanico Wrote:  About the map Parlay posted..Notice the Dominican republic isn't colored up...I guess they didn't want to bring the age lower than 15

It's funny how SEA is 23+. I call bullshit.

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(08-26-2013 09:26 AM)Aliblahba Wrote:  I don't understand this one:

It's about where the economy is growing. Probably where the manufacturing is.
Factories always pop up in the poorest areas to exploit cheap labor.

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Here's one for IRT so he knows where to plan his trips..
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according to Arabs
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No explanation needed
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LOL

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My thread on Cyber maps that got 0 love here
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For Iknowexactly more Murka...cool shit on that site

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Great find! I'm a map nerd myself.

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Good thread. I love this stuff.

Here's a site you guys would like, Strange Maps:

http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps

Watch a slideshow of maps he's posted here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/7992837610/

Read an interview about his blog and this GDP map (I posted an updated version):

http://www.theworld.org/2012/11/frank-ja...ange-maps/

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http://www.whereivebeen.com

A site to create a map of the place you have visited/lived.

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Here's one from another site:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/08/...-maps.html

Quote:Most students of history will be familiar with this map of Africa, completely dominated by European powers just before the First World War. After 1918, the German colonies were divided between Britain and France and Africa remained under the foreign control for decades to come. Colour coding is as follows: Britain red, France blue, Portugal purple, Germany light green, Spain pink, Italy emerald green, Belgium yellow. Only Ethiopia and Liberia, established as a homeland for freed slaves in the mid-nineteenth century, remained independent:

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(08-26-2013 09:26 AM)Aliblahba Wrote:  I don't understand this one:

Yes, map 29 took me a minute to figure out. It shows the economic center of gravity between east and west and north and south.

So, in AD 1 the the economic center of gravity of the world was located primarily between Rome in the West and China in the East, with more minor countries in between (Persia, India, etc.)

That economic center of gravity shifted dramatically westward with the Industrial Revolution (1820) and then with the emergence of the U.S. as an economic powerhouse (1913). By 1950, because of WWII, the U.S. produced something like fifty percent of all goods in the world. The the rebuilding of Japan and Germany began shifting the economic center of gravity back eastward.

Now the economic center of gravity is turning dramatically eastward with the emergence of China as an economic giant, especially since 2000.

Obviously, there was also a more modest shift northward from the Mediterranean areas to central and northern Europe over the past 2000 years.

Men love this stuff: "40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World," but it should be sub-titled "40 Maps That Make The Lizards Nod Off"

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Time lapse map of last 200 years' political boundaries. (Fairly famous some of you've probably seen it already)

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Is this for real??



Seriously?

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map #36 is a good one

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(08-28-2013 08:53 AM)roberto Wrote:  Is this for real??



Seriously?

Sort of, I think. Football coach salaries are ridiculous. But if you read the deadspin article source you'll see that it includes income from sources that aren't traced to public coffers(endorsements, etc.), although it's still technically part of the compensation package so the author counted it. Meanwhile there are plenty of people making a killing off government money that aren't included. Defense Contractors, for example. How does the CEO of Raytheon compare? You wouldn't know looking at this map.

It's really hard to figure out why the map looks like that without a lot more information.

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It pretty much accurate but doesn't tell the whole story.

An example is the University of Wisconsin's football and basketball coaches. (I'd think the football coach is paid more but not bothering to look it up). The UW athletic department is entirely self sustaining, meaning it takes no funding from the University or state. Instead it derives it's revenues from ticket sales, merchandising, TV broadcast revenues, bowl game payouts and donations.

Not a dime of tax payer money is spent on coach's salaries, even in the sports that do not contribute to the bottom line. College football is a huge cash cow and basically subsidizes the rest of the athletic department with some help from basketball.

The coaches are technically state employees, but they are paid out of the athletic department budget.

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Thanks a lot for this, actually spent quite a deal of time looking at this rofl.

McDonald's is taking over the world!