leviramsey Posted June 27, 2007 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27, 2007 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villab0y Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 :?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 :?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 27, 2007 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27, 2007 Credit to the Strange Maps blog. Basically each state was renamed to the country with the closest total GDP. Also amusing is the Stockholm Metro map with stops translated into English: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 27, 2007 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 27, 2007 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27, 2007 They've missed off The People's Republic Of Usenet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 28, 2007 VT Supporter Share Posted June 28, 2007 They've missed off The People's Republic Of Usenet. Usenet is near the IRC Isles, a shadowy area of the sea (since each newsgroup would probably be viewed as its own island on the map. There be dragons, trolls, and flamefests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 28, 2007 VT Supporter Share Posted June 28, 2007 They've missed off The People's Republic Of Usenet. Usenet is near the IRC Isles, a shadowy area of the sea (since each newsgroup would probably be viewed as its own island on the map. There be dragons, trolls, and flamefests. Oh, so it is. Skitt's Law invoked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 29, 2007 VT Supporter Share Posted June 29, 2007 I don't see where the grammatical flame that is required for an invocation of Skitt's Law is. The grammatical error "there be" is parodic of the whole "here be dragons" meme. If you're generalizing Skitt's Law into something akin to something about those who live in glass houses, I'm not slamming Usenet (indeed, the trolls and flamefests are Usenet's greatest social feature relative to web-based fora such as VT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Nice to see WoW gets its own island! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted September 4, 2007 VT Supporter Share Posted September 4, 2007 Doesn't really need an explanation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted November 1, 2007 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2007 It turns out the divide is more between the Northwest and the Southeast: on this map, the line (which, incidentally, does cross the Watford Gap – somewhere in between Coventry and Leicester) runs from the estuary of the Severn (near the Welsh-English border) to the mouth of the Humber. Which means that a town like Worcester is firmly in the North, although it’s much farther south than the ‘southern’ town of Lincoln. At least, that’s the result of a Sheffield University study, which ‘divided’ Britain according to statistics about education standards, life expectancy, death rates, unemployment levels, house prices and voting patterns. The result splits the Midlands in two. “The idea of the Midlands region adds more confusion than light,” the study says. The line divides Britain according to health and wealth, separating upland from lowland Britain, Tory from Labour Britain, and indicates a £100.000 house price gap – and a year’s worth of difference in life expectancy (in case you’re wondering: those in the North live a year less than those in the South). The line does not take into account ‘pockets of wealth’ in the North (such as the Vale of York) or ‘pockets of poverty’ in the South, especially in London. Clicky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwpzxjor1 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 I tihnk I am pretty much dead on that line... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrownsVillan Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Glad to see my home state is as good as "Algeria"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted November 1, 2007 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2007 I tihnk I am pretty much dead on that line... Me too mate. i live about as close to solihull as you can be without leaving brum, so the very south east of brum, and it's very close to that line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 As a geographer, I'd say this is my favourite map Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted November 2, 2007 VT Supporter Share Posted November 2, 2007 Paddy, that's just a poor parody of: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shambles Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 ^ Levi, FYI, that map came out of the Spitting Image annual from about 1989. I haven't seen it for years! Good on who ever posted it online! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaretMahoney Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Ok umm. I'm not sure that makes any sense, closest to the GDP? Switzerland must have a HIGH gdp and yet Georgia* is named Switzerland? Also, Venezuela is matched up with Iowa...that doesn't seem right either. Cool idea though. *edited, oops mixed up AL with GA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted November 4, 2007 VT Supporter Share Posted November 4, 2007 Ok umm. I'm not sure that makes any sense, closest to the GDP? Switzerland must have a HIGH gdp and yet Georgia* is named Switzerland? Also, Venezuela is matched up with Iowa...that doesn't seem right either. It's not based on per-capita GDP, it's based on nominal (read: total) GDP. It's not a metric of how rich/productive the state is, more a measure of how much overall the states contribute to the world's economy. Switzerland's 2006 GDP was US$377,240 million (per the IMF) while the state of Georgia's is US$379,550 million (per the US Bureau of Economic Analysis). If the US splintered into 51 independent countries (including the District of Columbia), then 14 of the 40 largest economies would be former US states (there are some readily visible discrepancies between this list and the map; I suspect that the maker of the map was using figures from other sources and/or other years): 1. Japan 2. Germany 3. People's Republic of China 4. United Kingdom 5. France 6. Italy 7. California 8. Canada 9. Spain 10. Brazil 11. Texas 12. New York 13. Russia 14. South Korea 15. India 16. Mexico 17. Australia 18. Florida 19. Netherlands 20. Illinois 21. Pennsylvania 22. Ohio 23. New Jersey 24. Belgium 25. Turkey 26. Sweden 27. Michigan 28. Georgia 29. Switzerland 30. North Carolina 31. Virginia 32. Indonesia 33. Taiwan 34. Saudi Arabia 35. Poland 36. Massachusetts 37. Norway 38. Austria 39. Greece 40. Washington does anybody have GDP breakdowns for England, Scotland, Wales, and NI? I'd suspect that England would probably come in between Italy and France, while Scotland would be down around 50 or so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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