That map’s now out of date- Minnesota should be red, since the flag upgrade last year
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Virginia and New York should get extra credit for showing individual “piggies”, rather than amorphous blobs like Florida’s.
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I don’t think this is true. The poles are like 20km closer to the center of the earth than the equator.
EDIT: Found this clarification on WP:
The Indian Ocean area is the “point on the ocean surface farthest below sea level… the Indian Ocean Geoid Low, about 106 m (348 ft) below the global mean sea level.”
This WP article is really interesting from a map-nerd perspective
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Utah also has a new flag, sans toes.
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because they got rid of the eagle?
do bees have toes?
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They have knees,if the saying is to be believed, and extraordinarily good ones, at that.
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I think FM 101-5-1 (or current equivalent) is available online.
Never mix up your FLOT and your FEBA!
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I know. It’s showing Wyoming as part of Pennsylvania, when it was clearly part of Connecticutt.
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Happy to see that very dark blue where our riding school lives!
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not surprised to see Marion County, Florida in the top ten. Ocala is big time horse people!
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The ice here is 4,757 m thick, or more than 15 times the height of the Shard, the UK’s tallest skyscraper.
#fuckYouMetricSystem
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Reform UK will be after them for that nonsense. The official measurement in the UK is 516 double decker buses.
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A LIDAR-assisted map of lone (Trees Outside Woodland) trees in England.
Seems clunky but that could be because it went live today.
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