[Note: You may have to turn off labels from the overlay menu at top right]

I had accidentally come across a map without any labels or borders and made me search a bit about such maps.

It really is cool seeing the earth without any kind of human borders or labels, just a plain satellite view. I find it very calming:)

An other map without labels (apart from two pins that can be turned off from the bottom or left of the screen) is this one: https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/No-label-map/jtlp6Ps5Re

You could try google earth pro and turn off every label/border etc.

We need some state names for these. A few -stans would be appropriate as well.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/24741542

TL;DR: India, China, US, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil. Aggregated percent of total: 50.4

Source: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-homes-in-western-states-so/comments?triedRedirect=true

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46809135

The stop killing games campaign is about preventing game publishers from intentionally destroying their games after official support ends.

Sign here:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Thousand

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/post/92262

The Leo Belgicus (Latin, 'Belgic Lion') was used in both heraldry and map design to symbolize the former Low Countries (current day Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and a small part of northern France) with the shape of a lion.

2,810 × 4,000 pixels:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Leo_Belgicus_%28Dutch-Belgic_Lion_of_the_Low_Countries%29_Famiano_Strada_c1647.jpg

Academic study on the use of the octopus metaphor to represent grasping, controlling invasive entities etc. Examines many examples.

Conspiratorial thinking can connect many distinct or distant ills to a central cause. This belief has visual form in the octopus map: a map where a central force (for instance a nation, an ideology, or an ethnicity) is depicted as a literal or figurative octopus, with extending tendrils. In this paper, we explore how octopus maps function as visual arguments through an analysis of historical examples as well as a through a crowd-sourced study on how the underlying data and the use of visual metaphors contribute to specific negative or conspiratorial interpretations. We find that many features of the data or visual style can lead to “octopus-like” thinking in visualizations, even without the use of an explicit octopus motif. We conclude with a call for a deeper analysis of visual rhetoric, and an acknowledgment of the potential for the design of data visualizations to contribute to harmful or conspiratorial thinking.

Via Metafilter:

• https://www.metafilter.com/209159/The-Octopus-of-Persuasive-Cartography

Source: https://landgeist.com/2022/04/12/spirits-consumption-in-europe/

Other maps on the same topic from the source:

New Zealand doesn't exist, as usual.

Edit: Swapped image link.

Original link: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/9a23037f-23da-44ea-ad39-c7a3147a935c.png

RIP lemm.ee

Good luck reading Dutch: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Tichelaar