Frionnel posted:

Brazil is innacurate now because on top of using both US and Europe style we added our own special snowflake to replace them:

Samuel Clemens posted:

Those look like European sockets to me.

Paul.Power posted:

Now that I think of it, one of the downsides of living in the UK is that our sockets don't look like a surprised robot.

Although maybe if they were upside down...

Frionnel posted:

Brazil is innacurate now because on top of using both US and Europe style we added our own special snowflake to replace them:

kapparomeo posted:

Those look just like Swiss plugs and sockets.

cheerfullydrab posted:

As a map nerd, I would like an article that asks the people of Colorado who reside in the tiny area "ceded" by Texas if they feel they are better or worse being citizens of Colorado rather than Texas, and, if either, then why?

Samuel Clemens posted:

Those look like European sockets to me.

cheerfullydrab posted:

As a map nerd, I would like an article that asks the people of Colorado who reside in the tiny area "ceded" by Texas if they feel they are better or worse being citizens of Colorado rather than Texas, and, if either, then why?

Benagain posted:

There is actually an east side of Chicago. It's a community area directly bordering Indiana. Here is a map of the community areas of Chicago, East Side is 52. Politically loaded because notice how they're numbered? 77 seems a bit out of place yeah? Edgewater seceded from Uptown (#3) because they didn't want to be associated with it anymore. (Uptown has the highest concentration of mental health centers in the city and is also home to a shitton of poor people, although it is slowly gentrifying.) Community areas were defined by the University of Chicago back in the 1920's and they don't change so as to allow comparisons over time. Neighborhoods are much more fluid and the borders are not set which results in a great deal of cherry picking as to where you actually say you live in the city.

edit: 76 is O'Hare airport which the city annexed from neighboring towns back in the 50s by bribing them with water from Lake Michigan.

edit2: I only did this because I'm a tour guide in Chicago and sperging about poo poo like this is how I make money.

alnilam posted:

Along this line, what do people who live in the northwest angle feel like?

KaiserSchnitzel posted:

After living in Chicago on the North side for years, these maps still confuse the poo poo out of me because there's so much inconsistency. For instance, one of the places I lived was on Ashland just north of Lawrence. On that map you posted, it looks like that's either towards the West end of Uptown or right on the border of Uptown and Lincoln Square. I always thought of it as Ravenswood, which isn't even on your map. And, if you go to the https://www.google.com/maps/place/C...7.6297982Google Map of Chicago, as you zoom in and out the neighborhoods change, appear, and disappear depending on how far zoomed in you are. It's bananas. It goes from Ravenswood, to Uptown, to Sheridan Park, to Ravenswood again, to Winnemac (which I have never actually heard of before). The Google Earth version adds in Andersonville and Lincoln Square to confuse me even further.

alnilam posted:

Woah, I never knew cities could have enclaves like that, with the exception of Vatican city

Ofaloaf posted:

How unincorporated are the "unincorporated areas"? Does California not have townships?

majormonotone posted:

Townships are basically a northeast/Midwest thing

Also worth nothing that townships usually aren't considered incorporated anyway (except in like, New Jersey. There's a whole book about Jersey's ridiculous municipalities)

fishmech posted:

What does township mean to you? Their meaning varies quite a bit between different states.

Ofaloaf posted:

I know some eastern states like Virginia have cities independent of counties, and I figured California probably differs a bit from either here or Virginia, but... what, do properties in unincorporated land California just answer directly to the county government, with no municipal go-between?

Ofaloaf posted:

Here in Michigan, we have the entire state divided into counties, and then all land within the counties is incorporated into either a city or a township. Villages exist, but their status doesn't grant them autonomy from the townships they reside in. Townships themselves are organized municipalities, with their own elected officials. They're only rarely confused with towns as like a central urban center, because townships are usually either incredibly rural or suburban hellscape.

I know some eastern states like Virginia have cities independent of counties, and I figured California probably differs a bit from either here or Virginia, but... what, do properties in unincorporated land California just answer directly to the county government, with no municipal go-between?

Spoeank posted:

Look at that map and realize why Californians roll their eyes when people from Santa Monica or Beverly Hills correct you when you say they're from LA.

fishmech posted:

Yeah over there, the county government directly administers the unincorporated areas with no half-way government like a Midwest township tends to have (when they're not purely markers for location as they often are in the southern portions of the midwest). And they're definitely not Northeast style townships which are just another town, but since they were originally in place in like 1684 they still retain the name "township".

Virginia's system is also kind of confusing - although cities are independent of counties, and in effect operate as consolidated city-counties, there's tons of Virginia "towns" which are quite large, have 95% of the same abilities, but remain under the county's governance. This has some interesting consequences, because for instance the "city" of Norton, population 3958, has county independence and all that. Blacksburg on the other hand, with 43,000 people, is the largest town to not become an independent city - and it's larger than 25 of the state's 38 independent cities! There are also weird instances like Arlington County, which to all intents and purposes operates exactly like a single high-density incorporated city, even though the only government is county government (population's about 230,000 within 26 square miles, there's a longstanding development plan, etc).

Anyway as you can see, it makes it very annoying to map Virginia with all those tiny independent cities sprinkled in:

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Lord Hydronium posted:

How are so many people drowning in Mali?

fake edit: Oh, I guess there's some major rivers running through it, but even so it seems odd that that's one of the only blue countries.

Peanut President posted:

I was curious about this so I looked it up at the source:

code:

MALI
09-04-2014	Bamako					Drowning
01-24-2010	Bamako					Other Accident
12-02-2008	Bandiagara				Other Accident
12-21-2007	Djema					Veh. Accid-Auto
09-03-2006	Niger River				Drowning
09-03-2006	Polyclinique Pasteur			Drowning

Niger River is a dangerous place, who knew?

Lord Hydronium posted:

How are so many people drowning in Mali?

fake edit: Oh, I guess there's some major rivers running through it, but even so it seems odd that that's one of the only blue countries.

fishmech posted:

Yeah over there, the county government directly administers the unincorporated areas with no half-way government like a Midwest township tends to have (when they're not purely markers for location as they often are in the southern portions of the midwest). And they're definitely not Northeast style townships which are just another town, but since they were originally in place in like 1684 they still retain the name "township".

Virginia's system is also kind of confusing - although cities are independent of counties, and in effect operate as consolidated city-counties, there's tons of Virginia "towns" which are quite large, have 95% of the same abilities, but remain under the county's governance. This has some interesting consequences, because for instance the "city" of Norton, population 3958, has county independence and all that. Blacksburg on the other hand, with 43,000 people, is the largest town to not become an independent city - and it's larger than 25 of the state's 38 independent cities! There are also weird instances like Arlington County, which to all intents and purposes operates exactly like a single high-density incorporated city, even though the only government is county government (population's about 230,000 within 26 square miles, there's a longstanding development plan, etc).

Anyway as you can see, it makes it very annoying to map Virginia with all those tiny independent cities sprinkled in: