MetaFilter posts tagged with geography

Musicartography

yiftach — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:01:38 -0800

A piano has 88 keys; Ohio has 88 counties. Cartographer Andy Woodruff noticed this fact while driving through Ohio to complete his Counties Visited Map, and decided, despite knowing nothing about music, to make a map based on this coincidence.

The Present Sound of London

nthdegx — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:13:40 -0800

The Present Sound of London -- "I’ve been lured to London by money at the hottest, stickiest time of year. Every time I visit, I’m struck by the noises—not necessarily their volume, but their strangeness and variety in comparison to the quiet humdrum of the provincial town where I live. So this time I’m equipped with an audio recorder." By Giles Turnbull.

Search the Bible with Google Maps

Effigy2000 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:49:53 -0800

Biblemap.org is an interactive map system for the bible, which is great for visualising where certain biblical events are said to have occured. It's also great for people who don't subscribe to any kind of organised religion but do like looking at maps (like me!).

SQUIRREL!

Artw — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:26:02 -0800

The real world location behind “Up’s” Paradise Falls. But could that house really fly?

London Shop Fronts

nthdegx — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:57:19 -0800

London Shop Fronts

Largest microbreweries in America

baphomet — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:53:13 -0800

A map of the top 50 craft breweries in America by volume. State map of per capita beer consumption. The rankings:

Boston Brewing Company, Boston MA
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Chico CA
New Belgium Brewing Company, Fort Collins CO
Spoetzl Brewery, Shiner TX
Pyramid Brewries, Inc., Seattle, WA
Matt Brewing Company, Utica NY
Deschutes Brewing Company, Bend OR
Boulevard Brewing Company, Kansas City MO
Full Sail Brewing Company, Hood River OR
Harpoon Brewery, Boston MA
Alaskan Brewing and Bottling Company, Juneau AL
Magic Hat Brewing Company and Performing Arts Center, South Burlington VT
Anchor Brewing Company, San Fransisco CA
Bell's Brewery, Inc., Kalamazoo MI
Shipyard Brewing Company, Portland ME
Summit Brewing Company, St. Paul MN
Abita Brewing Company, Abita Springs LA
Gordon Biersch Brewing Company, San Jose CA
Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn NY
Stone Brewing Company, Escondido CA
Rogue Ales, Newport OR
Long Trail Brewing Company, Bridgewater Corners VT
New Glarus Brewing Company, New Glarus WI
Kona Brewing Company, Kahlua-Kona HI
Dogfish Head Brewing Company, Milton DE
Firestone Walker Brewing Company, Paso Robles CA
Great Lakes Brewing Company, Cleveland OH
The Lagunitas Brewing Company, Petaluma CA
Flying Dog Brewery, Denver CO
Sweetwater Brewery, Atlanta GA
Bridgeport Brewing Company, Portland OR
Rock Bottom Brewery, Louisville CO
Odell Brewing Company, Fort Collins CO
BJ's Restaurant and Brewery, Huntington Beach CA
Victory Brewing Company, Downington PA
Mac and Jack's Brewery, Redmond WA
Lost Coast Brewery and Cafe, Eureka CA
Big Sky Brewing Company, Missoula MT
Pete's Brewing Company, San Antonio TX
Otter Creek Brewing Company, Middlebury VT
Karl Strauss Brewing Company, San Diego CA
Breckenridge Brewing Company, Denver CO
Gordon Biersch Brewery, Chattanooga TN
Anderson Valley Brewing Company, Boonville CA
Boulder Beer Company, Boulder CO
North Coast Brewing Company, Fort Bragg CA
McMenamins, Portland OR
Utah Brewer's Cooperative, Salt Lake City UT
Capital Brewing Company, Middleton WI
Blue Point Brewing Company, Patchogue NY

Check out BeerAdvocate for more info about these breweries and their crafts.

The capitvating and deadly pyroclastic flow

baphomet — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:53:46 -0800

An erupting stratovolcano poses numerous hazards for nearby habitation, but none nearly so terrifying and deadly as the pyroclastic flow. Pyroclastic flows, comprised of tons of superheated sulfuric gases, particulate rock materials and ash, can reach temperatures of 1,830 °F and travel at alarming speeds up to 450mph. Convection of materials within the clouds causes them to become a suspension, fluidizing and thundering noxiously across the surrounding landscape for miles, in some cases even uphill or across open water. Wherever these clouds come in contact with humans the result is catastrophe, as the residents of Herculaneum and St. Pierre, Martinique learned within minutes of the eruptions of Vesuvius in 79AD and Pelee in 1902-- both towns were overwhelmed by pyroclastic clouds, igniting all flammable materials and incinerating and suffocating the inhabitants. None survived Herculaneum, while just two of St. Pierre's 26,000 survived, one of whom was a prisoner condemned to death and awaiting his execution in a dungeon cell. Despite their incredible capacity for violence, pyroclastic flows are also capable of producing mesmerizing, awe-inspiring beauty.

How the Crash Will Reshape America

Afroblanco — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:35:49 -0800

" ... the recession, particularly if it turns out to be as long and deep as many now fear, will accelerate the rise and fall of specific places within the U.S.—and reverse the fortunes of other cities and regions." From The Atlantic Online - How the Crash Will Reshape America

Playing For Kibble

Secret Life of Gravy — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:30:58 -0800

Play Trivia to Help Save Abandoned Animals. Free Rice set the standard for on-line charity games and Free Poverty soon followed by donating water. Now you can play for free kibble to be donated to either Rocket Dog Rescue or The Urban Cat Project.

Friday Flash Fun: Test your geography skills.

Nauip — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:06:44 -0800

Free Poverty. Kinda like freerice.com but they're giving water to places that need it. I feel dumb now. Some places are not where I thought they were.

Geowanking

finite — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:17:04 -0800

"We can have all the applications and Internet connectivity [...] but that still won't get at issues of lack of electricity and cartographic literacy and suppression of geospatial information by the state and their complicit corporations" reads a recent post on Geowanking, a mailing list for GIS nerds. [SLMLP] As there isn't a description on the list's website, the article "Geowankers Anonymous" from 2006 is probably the best place to go to get an idea of what it's all about. Or, just peruse their archives. The quote is from this message by Dr R E Sieber.

The body of the city

Horace Rumpole — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:29:48 -0800

Visualizing Early Washington. A project at the Imaging Research Center of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County has reconstructed the original landscape of Washington DC before its radical transformation into a modern capital city. Be sure to view the animation either embedded in the WaPo story or (sans advertising) at the "reconstructed the original landscape" link. (via)

Found It

netbros — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:40:27 -0800

Place Spotting ― Try to solve this Google map quiz. In the upper part of the page you see a satellite picture. Drag and zoom the map in the lower part of the page until it shows the same location as the upper map. Here's how.

"An already difficult journey has become dangerous."

amyms — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:49:28 -0800

Long before people called themselves Muslims or Hindus, long before they fought and died over these or any labels... water dripped and froze inside the Amarnath Cave at the heart of Kashmir. Amarnath Cave official site. Amarnath Cave pilgrimage. Amarnath virtual tour. Wikipedia's page on the Amarnath land transfer.

The Map-Happy Chaplain

Rykey — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:15:08 -0800

John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg emigrated from Germany to the United States, where he was eventually a Chaplain in the American Civil War. He also really liked maps; in the course of traveling over his lifetime, he collected hundreds of maps, some dating back to the 16th century. [Most maps in Latin]

I know, it should be 'Armin Tamzarian'.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:39:52 -0800

Cute quiz: Name the Simpsons characters. Also: US states, countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America, periodic table of elements. More.

Interactive 18th century Rome

peacay — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:21:59 -0800

Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome is a rich and innovative geographic database that projects Vasi's 18th century engravings of Roman architecture onto the contemporary map of Giambattista Nolli [previously] with supplementary modern satellite, photographic and mapping overlays together with copious background detail. The work was undertaken by researchers at the University of Oregon (announcement) [via]

A Changing Neighborhood

Kronos_to_Earth — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:14:49 -0800

Before and after sattellite photos (along with much more information) of the effects of climate change over the past 30 years are available through UNEP's (the United Nations Environment Programme) Atlas of Our Changing Environment (Via)

Seven average Indians

goo — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:19:01 -0800

Liberalisation's children. The Financial Times interviews seven 24-year-old Indians, all of the average age but of very different circumstances.

Mostly blue

Artw — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:20:36 -0800

Google to map the oceans.

Map Quizzes from Ilike2learn.com

ignorantguru — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:07:29 -0800

Ilike2learn.com has a series of simply-wrought yet wonderfully mind-bending Map quizzes: check out North America if you're looking for a confidence booster, relive forth-grade geography by going through state capitals or impress friends with your knowledge of the European Peninsula. Find out how little you know about Africa and Asia, then peruse the mind-fuck that is Oceania. Heck, they even have c a pita l s, oceans, lakes, rivers and mountains for the truly adventurous. The world's a big place!

I Am The Eye In The Sky

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:17:02 -0800

Discoveries made using satellite imagery, particularly via Google Earth, have made headlines in the blue and green before. Increasingly high-resolution photos, combined with obsessive interest, have lead inevitably to the next step: interpretation and analysis of spots on the Earth's surface for which information is restricted, censored, or classified, such as the preparedness of military defenses in North Korea and Iran, or the viability of Saudi Arabia's next big oil play. Of course, not all mapping is benevolent.

CSI Baarle

Skeptic — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:16:27 -0800

Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau has been previously mentioned in MeFi. A historical quirk and geographical jigsaw, these days the complicated border criscrossing this Belgo-Dutch town had become little more than a tourist attraction. What happens, however, when a dead body is found, and nobody knows in which country it lies?

Electoral Geography

Rykey — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:09:19 -0800

Had enough election coverage this year? If not-- or if you forgot that countries besides the USA have elections too-- you can see details of elections the world over via Electoral Geography 2.0. Browse elections in chronological order or by country, or read scholarly articles on various elections. Not comprehensive (yet!); in general, the more recent, the more coverage.

Mapping Globalization

desjardins — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:11:14 -0800

What does "globalization" look like? Princeton's searchable collection of historical maps and present-day analysis, including Artists' Travels in the Renaissance, an 1891 ethnographic chart, Telegraph Lines in 1869, Global Terrorism c. 1983, Oil reserves vs. consumption, a visualization of world development since 1960. (via)