Maps: December 2008 Archives

348 - An Imperial Palimpsest on Poland's Electoral Map « Strange Maps

Party results of 2007 Polish legislative election seem to reflect the boundary between the German and Russian Empires, a line that has been gone since 1917.

337 - Europe Without Germany « Strange Maps

Split between Poland, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Austria, and Czechia. Plus Austria with Italian placenames.

Image:Wasscherscheiden.png - Wikimedia Commons

"Flusseinzugsgebiete und Europaeische Hauptwasserscheiden." A map of watersheds of European rivers, showing the divides between the areas drained by the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and the North, Baltic, Black, Caspian, Adriatic, and Mediterranean Seas. (Via Strange Maps entry on Europe's continental divide.)

xkcd - A Webcomic - Map of the Internet

"This chart shows the IP address space on a plane using a fractal mapping which preserves grouping.... Each of the 256 numbered blocks represents one /8 subnet.... The upper left section shows the blocks sold directly to corporations and governments in the 1990s before the RIRs took over allocation." (I wonder who inherited DEC's Class A allocation.)