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35 Unusual Maps That Might Change How You See The World, As Shared In This Online Account
There’s something about maps that keeps capturing our imagination again and again. Maps not only tell the stories in the most subtle and informative ways, they put things into a unique perspective we may not have ever thought of before.
So today we present you with a treat for your inner cartographer–the Twitter page dedicated to sharing “maps that keep you updated.” The creators of the page with a 36.1K-solid fan base also run a super popular Facebook page by the handle @IFLOVEMAPS. Here more than 757k people follow their content on a daily basis, which includes “keeping them updated about global events via maps,” “sharing maps developed by others” and providing them with “a new perspective on the world every day.”
Below we wrapped up some of the most interesting and informative maps shared on this page, so scroll down below and upvote your favorite ones!
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To find out more about the team behind the IFLOVEMAPS Facebook page and Twitter account, we reached out to the creators, Pablo Izquierdo and Lars Erik, who have been developing maps together for over a decade. The duo lives in Oslo and Madrid and they have a company called Mapographics that delivers services in the GIS-space (GIS = Geographical Information Systems).
Pablo explained that the main goal of Mapographics is to make maps that are informative, educational, and hopefully also nice to look at. “We have developed a lot of maps and analysis in the sustainability domain, and lately we have also started to sell maps for decoration. We love to merge scientific data with design,” he told Bored Panda.
I remember doing Technical Drawing in high school, such a lost art now.
The birth of IFLOVEMAPS was ten years ago, when Pablo and Lars Erik talked about making a social media page where they could share their love for maps. “It started with a Facebook page, and then moved on to Twitter and Instagram. We’re super happy to have several hundreds of thousands of followers, which to us is only a testimonial that many people share our love of maps,” Pablo said.
When asked if it’s true that more and more people are interested in maps, Pablo explained that we live in an ever more globalized society, and the distances between us are getting smaller due to cultural exchange and technology. “In addition, themes such as those that relate to environment, climate, sustainability, man-build-environment and more, nurture more interest in the spatial dimensions of things. Maps can represent how things are tied together in the spatial dimension, or geographical sense.” He added that “we experience a much higher interest in maps, more advanced spatial analysis, and more lightly, storytelling.”
Finland has no special irritating sentence. It’s the intention of speaking to us that does the trick.
Most ordinary Brits won't raise an eyebrow at reference to the Falklands, nt really taught about. Now try something more like "put the milk in before the tea" or "heat tea in the microwave" t get better results.
Indeed, and they get upset about some football match against the Germans, which the Germans totally forgot about. (The Germans mainly count their wins/losses against the Dutch, in football.)
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Portuguese here: If someone asks if we speak Brazilian we don´t get irritated. We just think you´re dumb AF. ... To get us irritated you have to assume we speak Spanish. That´s what triggers us. Not the question but when people just expect us to speak Spanish with them or believe we´re a part of Spain. You trigger the wrath of around 1000 years of war and fighting to keep independence from Spain...
One of my co-workers had a table and he dropped the check and asked if they were finished. "NO we are from SWEEDON!"
or asking a Slovak if they are still part of Hungary (over a hundred years ago) or USSR (never was) but yes Are you eastern Europe is the most irritating one :-D we are Central Europe remember that :-D
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And I GUARANTEE These are asked by American tourists at least 50 times a year EVERY year.
Dang. JUST as I was about to say how impressed I was that no one had found a way to somehow shoehorn an insult about America or Americans into this...here we are. Every. Time. It does not matter the topic. We can be talking about snowshoes in the Arctic.... and someone here will STILL find a way. It is becoming rather impressive, in a strange way. But we were SOO close. SMH. I do believe one day, it WILL happen.
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As an Austrian I can confirm that's true. About 30 years ago I was in Ireland, and some Irish dude said: "Oh, Austria, that's a part of Germany, right?" I answered with: "Oh, Ireland, that's a part of the UK, right?" Somehow he was not amused...
The Malvinas are Argentinian? If you think that winds up people in Britain then you’ve really not got a grip of what makes us tick. ‘Should I leave the teabag in the cup?’ Is a much better way to get us going 😂
I was thinking more 'The scots really deserve independence"
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Southern Ireland. That's one way to get offered a ride to the airport. Heh.
Indeed. Not much craic to be had after that one :D
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Lol very true. Also "oh, do you speak french, no?" And "dutch fries are better" for the flemish.
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The videos of italians reacting to pasta with ketchup is so funny yet sad at the same time
I would say pineapple on pizza is even worse
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A singer in a band I know, that shall both go unnamed to protect the innocent, once entered the stage in Dublin Ireland and said: "Hello! Welcome! So good to be back here in the UK!".....
Bold of the map-maker to assume the average English person speaks more Spanish than "dos cervezas por favor".
Bold of you to credit them with that! 😂 TWO BEERS GARSON POOR FAVOUR PRONTO.
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I too was surprised so i searched for some info: "it became clear that Sweden's high numbers were fueled in large part by Sweden's broader definition of rape and more inclusive reporting rules compared to other European countries. When the data was recalculated using Germany's narrower guidelines, for example, Sweden's average reported rapes per 100,000 people fell from 64 to 15, a decrease of 326.7%." source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/rape-statistics-by-country
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That Swedish comment would get you ignored as being some right wing extremist nutjob. But if you really want to irritate a Swede you should praise them for their good chocolate and watches. And to piss them off you should complain about the Swedish bank secrecy.
i'm not sure it's socially acceptable anywhere to just randomly say "Polish death camps"
For context, the Polish government passed a law a couple of years ago making it illegal to refer to Auschwitz and others as 'Polish death camps', they must be referred to as 'German (or Nazi) death camps in Poland'. Which is accurate of course, although I'm not sure legislation is the best way to educate people.
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Because that’s the best way to wind up the Welsh, ignore them. It’s that or ‘you are the largest county in England’….
Load More Replies... I have a greek buddy and my favourite way to annoy him is to say "I look forward to going to see that big mosque in istanbul".
Next time try telling him that souvlaki is just a rip-off of Shish Kebab...
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The irritating thing is that you basically wrote «Glory Ukraine» instead of «Glory to Ukraine»
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To piss flemish people all you need to say is 'Dutch fries are better' xD
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This one should be on top, even if American wines are obviously not better.
I love how the only freaking sentence in another language is the UK one...in Spanish. And of course, I read it with the accent. XD And yes, the "you're latino" will p**s off a few compatriotes. Also, it's quite curious that we consider ourselves whites, but in USA, prior the Oscars ceremony, they said that Antonio Banderas was POC (and for us, POC means black, period). And yes...a lot of pissed spaniards. Because "we're not black". No, we're not black, we're quite racist. XD
Danes are a Lot more than Hans Christian Andersen and the little mermaid
The German one is so true for me. Every now and then i want to watch an anime, but it is not available in my country. So annoying.
Some of these are just insensitive. I find Poland's cruel, it isn't annoying, its on another level this guy is sick in the bad way
Well, you are annoyed enough by it that the government basically banned the phrase, so I would say it is spot on
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Several of these fall under the 'justifiable homicide' rules in those countries.
The red capital designation comes from Middle East and African refugees.
Falklands. Because apparently this map was created in 1982.
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As a Dutch person: Sinterklaas IS racist, so it's more factual then annoying
Funny italians getting mad about pasta when it´s a chinese invention, brought by Marco Polo, and so is ketchup
That about Marco Polo bringing "pasta" home is a total myth.
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it's what you get when you name things as what they are. proper definition of rape.
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Pablo explained that “from a social media point of view, people love maps that are spot-on in conveying a message of stereotypical characteristics and differences between countries. From a more professional point of view, the interest in sustainability related topics in maps has skyrocketed in recent years, such as maps showing degradation of nature or the effects of climate change. But more generally speaking, what we see is that maps, as a way to represent data or tell a story, are increasingly used in media, by the government, NGOs and even in the business community.”
I wish there was a key to see how many people each height equates to
But making a good map that is based on advanced data, that tells a story and that looks good (or at least tries to) is a process of trial and failure, Pablo argues. “To put it simply, the process starts from the idea on what story/data the maps should express, to identification of data source, quality assurance, data processing, GIS processing, and working to ensure the final print has crisp and flawless details when it turns into a final product.”
This is really lovely. Too bad their habitat is being destroyed daily.
but yet the standard of living is lower in the US. I woudl rather have lower income than go bankrupt after a cancer diagnosis or be one of the 56% of homeless people who have full time jobs. -American living abroad
If you are born in France and live there until 18, you are automatically French.
Ah, I see the Maritimes have been remembered! Finally. (I'm joking, everybody knows the Maritimes)
Not true! In today Romania was the Dacian language, which was Not Slavic and then it was combined with Latin -> Romanian language. It is a big part of the Eastern Europe!
I’m going to start calling Ferraris “Smiths” and nobody will understand but me
Give me a word, any word, and I show you that the root of that word is Greek. -Gus Portokalos
This is country perspective based. Didn't see squat about western tragedies or news when living in China, found out about them from western sources. My relatives in Malaysia don't hear any either unless we tell them; get lots of "omg world is inbdanger!" stuff when it's in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, India, China, Thailand, or Vietnam though. Lots about coups and stuff in Thailand and Myanmar get reported there as terrible for the world.
So everyone went to pretty much the same places? (Except looks like the Dutch weren't that much interested in North America)
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I could probably spend the rest of my life looking at these and still forget all of it three minutes later.
Yeah these are always nice facts to look at, never remember anything after I close the page though :D
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I could probably spend the rest of my life looking at these and still forget all of it three minutes later.
Yeah these are always nice facts to look at, never remember anything after I close the page though :D
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