Map fun
To give you a bit of a breather from all the anime reviews, here’s three articles about maps that I recently found, and that are very interesting to people who like cartography, language and technology.
- Which lines of longitude and latitude pass through the most countries? An interesting read, with ample map diagrams to back things up.
- How far ahead Google Maps is on Apple Maps, and how they achieved that. A thorough analysis of Google and Apple Maps, and some shrewd deductions on how Google has been combing (and combining) the data available to them to achieve their vast superiority in the online mapping space.
- There are two words for tea, and depending on how you got your tea, you use one or the other. Tea was for very long a monopoly of China. So obviously you’d use the Chinese word for it back home, because there simply wasn’t a word for it in your own language. And the word you used depended on where you went to get the stuff!
Crossposted from my blog. Comment here or at the original post.