A little bit of map fun today with elevation data - a kind of topographic map, with lower elevations filling up first - spot the Danube, the Alps and all sorts of other things (elevation data from @CopernicusEU)
a few stills from the topogiffic map above - I'm not an expert but that looks like the Great Hungarian Plain
the data doesn't cover every European country but where it does you can see some interesting things, including parts of the Romanian border
I'll add a video file too - may look fuzzy on here, but useful for moving the slider back and forth if you feel the urge
related - Scotland and Finland have very similar high points (there was talk about Norway gifting Finland the highest bit of Halti (1,365m) but it didn't happen
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I cover installation of #ffmpeg on Mac (easy), Linux (easy) and Windows (easy, but can seem horrendously complex for new users) and ...
I also try to break things down into chunks so that they make sense to the new user - and then you can have all sorts of fun with animating the map files I provided
Weird alien eyeball? Or world population by latitude? Just another map experiment but since it fits with today's #30DayMapChallenge theme I'll share it here
'random Canadian-Scottish geography questions you can answer quickly while having your breakfast at the weekend'
- I may also have calculated the Scottish-Latitude population of Canada while I was at it, surprisingly low
plus, not everyone knows that the northern bits of Shetland are further north than the southern tip of Greenland - and even when you hear this you are duty-bound to check it yourself on Google maps because it sounds made up
the answer to my vital question, thanks to some 10km gridded data, is that a little over 570,000 people would appear to live at Scottish latitudes in Canada, and I think we can all sleep easy now
A short city population/datanerdfest coming up in this thread, beginning with a little panoramic tour of the Tokyo metro area - city as far as the eye can see
(I made this using Google Earth Studio btw, a very useful tool)
background: I have been using/playing with/analysing global city population data quite a bit over the years, most recently in an academic paper on the topic with @CJHoole and @stehincks
we looked at population density for the whole world, using 1km resolution data from the EU's GHSL project - e.g. here's a little snapshot of how it looks across part of West Africa, from our paper