Map Addicts: a place for the obsessive amateur cartographers amongst us.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

A place for you to post any interesting maps you find on the Internet. 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

[Futtocks]

The borders between the Netherlands and Belgium in the city of Baarle.

[Gerrumonside ref]

6 hours ago, Futtocks said:

The borders between the Netherlands and Belgium in the city of Baarle.

Is this the origins of the phrase “Baarle-room brawl” given the rivalry between the nations?

Edited July 9 by Gerrumonside ref

[Futtocks]

I may have actually learned of this website on here, years ago. The interface is a little fussy, but what it allows you to do is overlay a selection of old maps onto a current one (or an aerial photo) in varying degrees of transparency. Not all maps cover all the UK, but most do.

You can waste your time happily here: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=11.0&lat=51.52642&lon=-0.26146&layers=170&b=1&o=61 

[Futtocks]

And this is LightningMaps, which tracks thunderstorms in real time. Quite addictive if there's a storm wherever you are.

https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;y=52.4359;x=3.6365;z=6;d=2;dl=2;dc=0; 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

4 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

And this is LightningMaps, which tracks thunderstorms in real time. Quite addictive if there's a storm wherever you are.

https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;y=52.4359;x=3.6365;z=6;d=2;dl=2;dc=0; 

Mrs. Goose is obsessed with lightning maps, constantly checking any place that comes up on TV or in a film or whatever.

[Mumby Magic]

O boy. I thought I'd seen some titles of threads but this beats it. 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

51 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Mrs. Goose is obsessed with lightning maps, constantly checking any place that comes up on TV or in a film or whatever.

Mrs. Goose has been studying Dortmund on lightning maps for about an hour now and is getting really excited as the lightning gets closer.

[Padge]

1 hour ago, Futtocks said:

I may have actually learned of this website on here, years ago. The interface is a little fussy, but what it allows you to do is overlay a selection of old maps onto a current one (or an aerial photo) in varying degrees of transparency. Not all maps cover all the UK, but most do.

You can waste your time happily here: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=11.0&lat=51.52642&lon=-0.26146&layers=170&b=1&o=61 

 

1 hour ago, Futtocks said:

And this is LightningMaps, which tracks thunderstorms in real time. Quite addictive if there's a storm wherever you are.

https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;y=52.4359;x=3.6365;z=6;d=2;dl=2;dc=0; 

The two mapping sites I use the most along with google earth, the NLS one is almost permanently open on my PC.

[Futtocks]

World Map in the style of Piet Mondrian.

[EagleEyePie]

2 hours ago, Futtocks said:

I may have actually learned of this website on here, years ago. The interface is a little fussy, but what it allows you to do is overlay a selection of old maps onto a current one (or an aerial photo) in varying degrees of transparency. Not all maps cover all the UK, but most do.

You can waste your time happily here: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=11.0&lat=51.52642&lon=-0.26146&layers=170&b=1&o=61 

2 hours ago, Futtocks said:

And this is LightningMaps, which tracks thunderstorms in real time. Quite addictive if there's a storm wherever you are.

https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;y=52.4359;x=3.6365;z=6;d=2;dl=2;dc=0; 

I love both of these. The first one I often use if I've been out walking and found a bit of old infrastructure. As soon as I find a path that looks like it's an old railway line or bridges over seemingly nothing I make a note and look it up when I get home.

Lightning maps I use as soon as there's any sign of a storm. Also during tornado season in the US I sometimes follow the storms if I'm bored on a weekend or evening, particularly if there are storm chasers live streaming on youtube. I'm a storm chasing nerd.

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

On 09/07/2024 at 14:21, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Thanks for an interesting map, HG.  I wonder how its compilers define 'from each English county' and 'top selling'.

James Blunt seems a slightly surprising choice for Wiltshire, although he was born in it.  Latterly, his parents have more connection to Hampshire, I think.  A few years ago, we rented a self-catering cottage in Suffolk from a Hampshire-based Mr and Mrs Blount, who turned out to be James Blunt's parents; he has dropped the 'o' in his surname.

More specifically Wiltshire - and also 'top selling' (whatever that means!) - are Salisbury's very own Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch.

Likewise, just over the border in Hampshire, how about Andover's very best, the Troggs?

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

2 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Mrs. Goose has been studying Dortmund on lightning maps for about an hour now and is getting really excited as the lightning gets closer.

She should get out more...except, for safety reasons, when there is thunder about...obviously!

[Futtocks]

23 minutes ago, Wiltshire Warrior Dragon said:

Thanks for an interesting map, HG.  I wonder how its compilers define 'from each English county' and 'top selling'.

James Blunt seems a slightly surprising choice for Wiltshire, although he was born in it.  Latterly, his parents have more connection to Hampshire, I think.  A few years ago, we rented a self-catering cottage in Suffolk from a Hampshire-based Mr and Mrs Blount, who turned out to be James Blunt's parents; he has dropped the 'o' in his surname.

More specifically Wiltshire - and also 'top selling' (whatever that means!) - are Salisbury's very own Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch.

Likewise, just over the border in Hampshire, how about Andover's very best, the Troggs?

I very much doubt the Troggs total record sales come even close to Craig David's. I know their biggest hit Love is all around got a million sales worldwide, but sales must drop off pretty drastically below that and Wild Thing. Craig David's got about 15 million sales and is still active.

Edited July 10 by Futtocks

[Bedford Roughyed]

[Futtocks]

3 minutes ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

We really need to up our game on this front.

Edited July 10 by Futtocks

[Padge]

ESRI are probably amongst the world's leaders in mapping technology.

https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html

 

[Padge]

This our map on google MyMaps of our Greek travels over the years.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1eyfDvXeFyUmVebOZ15fxPl7iVKs&usp=sharing

 

[Gerrumonside ref]

If you’re fascinated by ancient maps there is a magnificent corridor in the Vatican museums that has a large collection of them on its surrounding walls with an almost golden ceiling too.

[Ullman]

16 hours ago, Futtocks said:

I may have actually learned of this website on here, years ago. The interface is a little fussy, but what it allows you to do is overlay a selection of old maps onto a current one (or an aerial photo) in varying degrees of transparency. Not all maps cover all the UK, but most do.

You can waste your time happily here: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=11.0&lat=51.52642&lon=-0.26146&layers=170&b=1&o=61 

I think I first heard about that site on here. It's a brilliant resource.

[Padge]

The Gough Map of Great Britain is a medieval map that has been digitised and published on line in a searchable version.

http://www.goughmap.org/map/?mapID=274

 

[RBKnight]

12 hours ago, Futtocks said:

I very much doubt the Troggs total record sales come even close to Craig David's. I know their biggest hit Love is all around got a million sales worldwide, but sales must drop off pretty drastically below that and Wild Thing. Craig David's got about 15 million sales and is still active.

Surely Craig David - and his kestrel - are from Yorkshire (Morley, to be precise) ?

[JonM]

Maybe stretching the definition of interesting, but here's a few more I occasionally look at:

The British Libraries photographs of King George III's map collection (40K+ pages)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/collections/72157719509637544/

Another old map site similar to the NLS one:

https://www.archiuk.com/archi/archi_old_maps.htm

Defra's magic map - got all kinds of stuff on there - geology, rare bird species etc etc

https://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx

[neanderthal]

On 10/07/2024 at 18:48, Futtocks said:

I may have actually learned of this website on here, years ago. The interface is a little fussy, but what it allows you to do is overlay a selection of old maps onto a current one (or an aerial photo) in varying degrees of transparency. Not all maps cover all the UK, but most do.

You can waste your time happily here: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=11.0&lat=51.52642&lon=-0.26146&layers=170&b=1&o=61 

This one is similar but side by side instead - gives you the option of selecting maps through the ages

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=5.0&lat=56.00000&lon=-4.00000&layers=1&right=ESRIWorld