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Map thread

Forest Cat said:
This is a map of a small island between Sweden and Finland called Märket.
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I love that story. We had a similar problem here but they didn't bother moving the border, it makes for some funny administration rules.

Broken Hill is a South Australian town but it exists in New South Wales. They are administered by South Australia and they are on South Australian time but they are subject to New South Wales road laws.

https://www.google.com.au/maps/plac...1.9595859!4d141.4608138!16zL20vMDEzYmJm?hl=en
 
Outdated said:
I love that story. We had a similar problem here but they didn't bother moving the border, it makes for some funny administration rules.

Broken Hill is a South Australian town but it exists in New South Wales. They are administered by South Australia and they are on South Australian time but they are subject to New South Wales road laws.
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So awkward when you accidentally build things in the wrong country. :D
 
Forest Cat said:
This is a map of a small island between Sweden and Finland called Märket. The Sweden/Finland border cuts the island in half and the border has a very odd shape. Because Finland built a lighthouse there a long time ago and then they discovered that they had accidentally built it on the Swedish side of the border. Awkward. So they moved the border and this was the best they could come up with. What a mess. :)

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This reminds me of this curious situation in the India Bangladesh border. Until 2015, they had an Indian enclave within a Bangladesh enclave within an Indian enclave within Bangladesh. It is named Dahala Khagrabari and living there was reportedly miserable since you couldn't reach anything.
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There is also the current Dutch-Belgian border in the town of Baarle.
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Discovered in 1900, the Saint-Bélec slab languished unrecognized in a castle basement for over a century.​


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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/europe-oldest-map-shows-tiny-bronze-age-kingdom
This is the earliest known example in Europe of a map for which we can identify the territory it depicts. The slab was engraved in the early Bronze Age (2150–1600 B.C.)

Map of “royal” Bronze Age tombs in Brittany with theoretical boundaries between their domains. Slab location marks the area depicted by the Saint-Bélec map.


The Saint-Bélec slab is the first map of its kind and age that has been identified with a particular territory. The researchers found that the markings on the slab corresponded to the landscape of the Odet Valley, oriented east-north-east to west-south-west. Using geolocation technology, the researchers established that the territory represented on the slab bears an 80 percent accurate resemblance to an area around a 29-kilometer (18-mile) stretch of the Odet River.
 
Outdated said:
^^ Is there a description or explanation for that one?
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I guess it was for Americans. How rude of me.

It is the state of Alaska, as compared to the contiguous United States. Much in the same way that people often underestimate the size of Australia, people also often underestimate the size of the state of Alaska.
 
Has anyone found an easy way to copy a feature on Google maps, and paste it elsewhere to compare sizes? It terms of downtown Toronto, by current town is one subway stop by two.
 
Shevek said:
Has anyone found an easy way to copy a feature on Google maps, and paste it elsewhere to compare sizes? It terms of downtown Toronto, by current town is one subway stop by two.
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Not the easiest, but the only way I know is to rotate and zoom the map, to line up the feature with the map scale indicator. Screenshot it so you remember. Then go do the same thing with the other feature. I've done this to compare building sizes at different locations, among many other things. This is on an iPhone. Not too keen on the capabilities on a PC, but at least you could have 2 windows next to each other.
 
My latest wallpaper image. Which has all the appearances of being a very wide-angle photograph rather than of a place that does not exist. But despite being a geography/cartography junkie, I am unable to conclusively determine where this is.

Anyone recognize this location or mountain range? I want to say somewhere in the Scottish Highlands...perhaps the Isle of Skye. The quality of the paved roads sure looks like this is the case...perhaps even in the vicinity of "Trotternish Ridge", but I'm just not 100% sure.


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Magnificent topography, wherever it is! :cool:
 
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