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Simon Kuestenmacher
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Simon Kuestenmacher
@simongerman600
German #geographer and #demographer in #Melbourne. I curate #maps and #data that explain how the #world works. Obviously all opinions are my own...
- Another US election, another "Land doesn't vote, people do" style map showing the election results.
00:00 - A female GPS-tracked falcon flew from South Africa to Finland. In 42 days she flew over 10,000 km. That's 230 km per day. What have you achieved in the last 42 days? Source: buff.ly/3ArE2eq
Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextThis is not a falcon, but a European honey buzzard named "Päivi." The map shows her migration from South Africa to Finland April 15-June 1, 2015. Päivi received her transmitter at her nest in Vesilahti, Finland on August 13, 2013, and was last tracked in May 2019. luomus.fi/en/satellite-h… satelliitti.laji.fi/?lang=en&id=JX… - I love Finland. I love their obsession with personal space too. Never have I seen such a hilarious visualisation of how much the Finns love their personal space! It's a real life data visualisation! Source: buff.ly/42Ooi4q
- The Norwegian flag is the Swiss Army knife of flags: It contains six other flags!
- A beautifully detailed version of an old pie chart joke.
- This is a berry good map. The distribution of 19 types of berries native to North America are shown in this interactive map. Source: buff.ly/3ZvAmGv
00:00 - Outstanding animated globe shows a year worth of earthquakes by depth (July 2017 to July 2018). In the interactive online version you can click on each individual #earthquake to learn more. Epic #dataviz! Source: buff.ly/353fycg
00:00 - Wow! New research reconstructs a billion (!) years worth of plate tectonics. Mouth watering research. Source: buff.ly/3ah9jpA
00:00 - World map centered around Argentina. Will feel very natural for all Argentineans and super weird to anyone else.
- I’m writing and speaking on #gentrification a lot these days. This sign in a pub cracked me up. It’s a great reminder that when you buy a house you become part of an existing local urban ecosystem - not the almighty ruler over that ecosystem.
- A female GPS-tracked falcon flew from South Africa to Finland. In 42 days she flew over 10,000 km. That's 230 km per day. What have you achieved in the last 42 days? Source: buff.ly/3ArE2eq
- This amazing little tool simply draws all streets in any city you want. As examples here are the town I grew up in (20k residents) and the city I live in (5M residents). Have a play with it. The exported screenshots make great desktop backgrounds. Source: buff.ly/2uht4vJ
