All the historical monuments of Ireland in one place!
Obviously Flightradar24 is the ultimate in this category.
Itâs great for a bit of plane spotting in the garden in the summer
Niche map glitch chat alert: on Google Maps the tag for Great Britain has been placed in such a manner as to rename Todmorden, which I find both amusing and chilling in equal measure.
The meaning of âTodmordenâ is âMurder Woodâ or âDeath Woodâ I think.
Take it to the Brexit thread
Itâs worse than that, itâs âDeath death woodâ. (Or âmarshy home of the foxâ depending on which version you choose to believeâ)
Either way itâs a total shithole.
I used to sometimes look up at planes flying overhead and wonder where they were coming from and going to, itâs slightly mind blowing to be able to look up it up now.
I feel the same about SkyView, with stars and constellations, too.
love skyview, especially when im camping. got an app called sputnik! the other day which tells you when the ISS and any satelites are due to go over and their location in the sky
There is a Bristol map where you can change the layers to historic maps from the 1700s / 1800s up to now
http://maps.bristol.gov.uk/pinpoint/
so can check out what was in a specific place back in the day. In the case of my house, fields basically.
I was about to post the raildar one. Love geeking out on that and being able to pass it off as work.
A map of 20th century Europe as predicted by Frenchman Henri Dron in 1863:
Lisbon gets a bit dot as it was his proposed capital of the world.
Spot Pontypridd
inhale through teeth
âTom Jonesâ
sigh of relief
i had no idea there were two Spanish cities on the African continent