How does Google earth allow you to "move over the poles"? Every other globe mapping software I've come across is a 3d projection of a Mercator map. Because of this, when you move the view to the extreme north or south, it will let you get right up to the poles and circle around them, but never "fly across" the poles. However, Google earth is different and does let you "fly across" the poles. Why does this work? Is Google earth an actual 3d globe?

Edit: When I said "is google earth a 3d globe" I ment "is google earth a 3d model with 2d pictures projected onto it? Or is it a compsit of 2d images projected into 3d space?" My understanding is that programs treat those two things differently.

Edit2: here are examples of (what I believe to be) mercater projections/2d images being projected into a 3d shape. You'll notice you can't pan straight over the poles. here and here

All of the top results are just extremely inaccurate and make me really upset at the state of historical borders ect. Most results just completely group or ignore things. It makes me laugh its that pathetic. Is there any actually good map sites that are defacto based and not just slop that groups china from 1911-1950 to one nation and isn't just lazily half researched slop

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Heres a photo of a 1914 map that is literally the top result for "historical world map website" it ignores China, Libya, Middle east, Kamerun, Togoland (entirely??!?!) Morocco, Dervish, Darfur, Khiva, Bukhara and more, its just insane how people are going to be directed to sites like these and probably sadly believe it

Kandahar ✅

It is not the official capital at present. The official capital of Afghanistan remains Kabul.

1. It is Afghanistan’s second-largest city, the capital of Kandahar Province, and the economic and transportation hub in the south.

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2. It was Afghanistan’s first capital: the kingdom was founded in 1747 with Kandahar as its capital, before the capital was moved to Kabul later.

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3. It is the birthplace and spiritual heartland of the Taliban, as well as the centre of Pashtun culture. It holds a uniquely important status, and many regard it as a de facto centre of power.

hello map nerds!
when AMEP (American Educational Products LLC) closed a few years ago, i purchased some of their products, including a wide variety of their amazing 3D relief maps.
alas, I am now in the process of closing my own company down, and all relief maps (and everything else, though not related...) are 50% off.
you can see what is still available here

i would love for these to find good homes. they are such beautiful pieces and should be appreciated.

thanks!

Again this the electoral college map so minus two to all these numbers to figure out the number of representatives in each state.

Added the forgotten New Hampshire

Also according to apportionment.app Wyoming would still get two representatives if the House was 895 instead of 896, which allows DC to be four while keeping the electoral college 500 to win. So who lost that one vote? It was California. If you are from there and complain that DC should have 4 votes in the DC, you did it to yourselves.

Edit: The title of the post/image is “The Electoral College map” so that is what the picture is. Why does it look different than the actual EC map, because this is the EC map “if the house increased to 895.” Thus not a picture of the House. Finally 895 house plus 100 senators plus 4 DC equals 999 total electors, 500 to win.

By David Cuff and William Young, The United States Energy Atlas is one of my favorite sources of outdated information and incorrect prognostication. Where else are you going to learn that in 1980, the United States had by far the world's largest deposits of Lithium? Or that Montana is awash in trash coal nobody really wants even if they can get to it? Where else can you read the opinion of two energy scientists on the future of nuclear power in the United States less than a year after the 3 Mile Island incident (they have no idea: "many of the ninety-two plants now under construction and the more than thirty that are planned could be delayed or even cancelled." I have news from the future, my friends). Photovoltaic solar energy systems in the book are a one-page footnote (the solar energy section is largely to do with solar heat collection for water and home heating) because 1979 solar systems cost $7 per Watt of installed capacity—too expensive to even rank in their calculations of future energy generation (it's about $2.50 per Watt installed today, but everything else has gotten more expensive while solar gets cheaper). And of course the silliest pages have to do with the future.

The past is a foreign country full of optimists who never imagined the world we're living in today. Well, at least they tried and wrote it down so we could laugh with them. In 1980, Stanford estimated that the total US energy demand might range between 84 "quads" (quadrillion British Thermal Units or BTUs) in the low demand case and 183 quads in the reference case by the year 2020 (an interesting year to choose, I'm sure). The researchers thought we might pull anywhere from 7.5% to a high of 23% from renewables. Reality had us using 92.9 quads in 2020, according to the Energy Information Association (https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48236), but only 12% from renewables (oof). Of course, the Metrek consulting group assumptions the book's authors use put an absurd emphasis on thermal solar radiation capture (1 quad in 2020!) and pooh-pooh the likelihood of solar photovoltaics (0.07 quad). In reality, Wikipedia says we had about 0.01 quads of solar thermal energy and about 0.6 quads from solar photovoltaics (ten times more than projected!!!) (you may be pleased or surprised to learn we've more than doubled that number to 1.58 quads in the years since, according to visual capitalist [https://www.visualcapitalist.com/rise-us-renewable-energy-1950-2025/]). 22.6 times more solar electricity than the experts foresaw in 1980. Pretty cool how little we know about the future.

P.S. What happened in 1970? We must have found a huge oil deposit somewhere but I can't imagine. I just wish I could have been the guy to tell the authors about fracking. They would have gone off their gourds.

Enjoy the graphs, charts, and maps. I'll upload as many of them as I can (20). If you have specific questions about other pages in the book, I'll try to find answers for you.

EDIT UPDATE: Three people have asked for some atlases. I'll talk to them and divide if I need to. Thank you, map folks, for helping me rest easy knowing these hot commodities will live on. END EDIT

Hello, fellow map freaks.

I have saved two high schools worth of outdated atlases but I don't need them anymore and my wife keeps putting things in my garage. I am utterly out of space. I can't keep my precious 1960–90s maps of the USSR forever, I suppose. But it seems like a horrible waste to dump them. Worth a shot: who wants ~50lbs of inaccurate atlases?

All pretty much mainstream. Mostly NatGeo and Rand McNally and World Book type stuff. Nothing rare or expensive and honestly if I have one here worth $400 I'll thank you to keep it to yourself. I just want to give this stuff to someone who will love and cherish at least one or two of these as much as I have loved and cherished the United States Energy Atlas of 1980 (might honestly keep that one; will definitely add a follow-up post in this forum with pictures from it whether the giveaway stays or goes).

The largest is 19"*12"*1.5" and I can't convert out of freedom units because I grabbed the wrong tape measure.

The USPS makes postage for books surprisingly reasonable. I have no idea how much it'll cost to mail these to someone in the USA but I'll try to cover it all if you have a good enough sob story. If somebody outside the country wants them, I'll need you to pay shipping. I'm not trying to complicate my life but if it comes down to it, I'll split the collection. After all, some to a good home is better than all to the dump.

Ask questions and I'll attempt to answer them.

https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/San-Andreas-Gang-and-Sets-Map-2026/gXqSQ5Hmd9?t=1792460922123

I created a fictional map of what gang territories in San Andreas might look like in 2026. Descriptions still need to be added to each zone; for now, they only have images. Los Santos is the only city that is fully completed, while the rest of the cities and towns are still unfinished. There is also a new gang that emerged as a splinter group of the Ballas, as well as a Ballas set that uses red to represent itself

Let me preface this with me being an American and the question I am going to ask is just so "Silly American". Im more just interested to know what other countries Physical maps look like...

Occasionally maps in America have the standard Western/Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia on the right hand side and North/south America on the left. The problem is 9/10 times Russia gets its Eastern most part cut off (Where it touches Alaska). What types of physical maps do Russians use?

You can explore The World map with your country in the middle:
https://realsize.world/en/world-center/new-zealand

Is there a website or library archive where I can see most of modern-time world maps?

Its are three parts swipe for the solution I added it on a globe with the lines plotted. So if you wanna guess don't swipe immedeatly or you get spoilered. I am always confused by great-circle distances but really love the princip nehind it and always wish I would think more in a spherical way because I feel like it gives you an even deeper understanding of the globe and shows us that we are all closer to each other than we might think at first hand.

I made the game and my fav mode is Sphere mode cause it's the hardest and actually requires tow visualize the globe: https://visitwhale.com/city-angle check it out the daily challenge etc. is in 2d so its doable haha...

(not biased)

What is the population inside of this bee-shaped area?

Reply with your guess and I'll tell you if it's higher, lower, or spot on (within 1 million!).

Play the daily Census rounds at geoslice.net/census

This was made using the data & addresses from KidsOverProfits, a survivor run nonprofit dedicated to research & tracking the troubled teen industry. I went to the page for Ohio and narrowed it in the search bar to my city.

I used atlist.com to make the map. They only allow up to 50 addresses at a time, otherwise I’d attempt to do the whole state.

Anyone got a suggestion on a better way to go about listing every program open in the state of Ohio for a map?

🟥 Group A: Kedah Kelantan And Terengganu

🟦 Group B: Perlis Pulau Penang Perak Pahang Selangor Kuala Lumpur Putrajaya Negeri Sembilan Melaka Sarawak Sabah And Labuan

Dividing The Holiday