www.worldmapper.org

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After reading the 'Mohammed Boys Name' thread and all the silly statements made without a shred of evidence i thought some of you might find this interesting...

www.worldmapper.org

It's a website that creates distorted world maps based upon various themes and statistics.

Just because this is OcUK GD here's some topical examples...

Refugee Destination

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International Immigration

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Tourism Profits

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Enjoy! :)
 
Illusion said:
They don't appear to make any sense...?

They are maps that don't take geographical boundaries into account, for example if the UK has twice as much income from tourism than the US, then the area covered by the UK on the map will be twice that of the USA.

It calculates an average across the globe and then redraws each countries size based upon that variable.

The bottom map shows that the UK has a lot hgiher income from tourism than any other country in the world.
 
chimaera said:
The bottom map shows that the UK has a lot hgiher income from tourism than any other country in the world.

Err...no, Britian is the squashed bit at the top, that big area is actually Spain and the dark red is France.
 
chimaera said:
They are maps that don't take geographical boundaries into account, for example if the UK has twice as much income from tourism than the US, then the area covered by the UK on the map will be twice that of the USA.
I think it's based on population too. So the UK will often appear a bit bigger than it normally is because we have a fairly high population density.
 
Awwww, Look how Skinny and small Australia is :D


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The UK looks like a Testicle in this one :p :o

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Psyk said:
Can't even see the UK in that one :confused:


AWW CRAP!!!

Its Spain that looks like a Testical not the UK :o

Its hard to make out what countrys what on that map :o
 
Zip said:
AWW CRAP!!!

Its Spain that looks like a Testical not the UK :o

Its hard to make out what countrys what on that map :o
Well you're not the first person to mistake Spain for the UK in this thread :p
 
I explored this site a while ago. There are some really interesting ones about health, wealth distribution, life expectancy and such.
The total population one was just scary.
 
yhack said:
If everyone had the same sense of humour then we wouldn't have gazillions of jokes.

Hehe, it actually made me laugh imagining you Laughing your ****ing ass off at that chap that didn't get it though.

Anyway some of those maps are pretty crap, you can barely make out which country is which :p
 
dun said:
Anyway some of those maps are pretty crap, you can barely make out which country is which :p

Philistine :p i wouldn't take up a career in geography mate ;)

Next time i'll make a relationship thread :o :D
 
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