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Old Posted Oct 29, 2019, 9:32 PM
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One cute one... occasionally, when the British press covers us, they often tilt the map as strongly as our own local weather forecasts do.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...dland-labrador

It's still not fully accurate (our actual southernmost point is still tilted nearly enough to be the easternmost on this map), but much better than Canadian media does.
No flat map can ever “fully accurately” represent the surface of a spheroid. No matter what you do, something has to be sacrificed - relative distances, relative areas, landmass shapes, directions, or some combination thereof.
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I'm taking Geospatial Communication Methods right now, and that comment just made me sigh and lay own I can't wait to be done. Love looking at maps, apparently hate making them.
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2019, 3:21 AM
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I'm taking Geospatial Communication Methods right now, and that comment just made me sigh and lay own I can't wait to be done. Love looking at maps, apparently hate making them.
Hand drawing? Yup. GIS application data input? Nope.
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2019, 3:26 AM
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I like going on this website to look at old maps for pretty much anywhere in the world:

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

For where I live, I enjoy seeing many of the Indigenous names of the lakes (as interpreted by whoever drew the maps) and how much exploration was done.
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Hand drawing? Yup. GIS application data input? Nope.
EXACTLY! *shameful tears*
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Interesting graphic showing urban heat islands in the northeast (including southern parts of Ontario).

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As a point of reference, the northern edge of downtown is currently just north of Bloor near Dupont. The current system downtown is much smaller/far less extensive. I'd love to see streetcars return to Bay, Church, and Parliament. Perhaps a few others.




https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/02/...cars-map-1932/
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Ottawa's 1929 streetcar network.



https://www.maproomblog.com/tag/ottawa/

vs the current map (minus a few minor changes).


https://www.westsideaction.ca/new-co...ra-bus-routes/
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back (1941) when Montreal wooted supreme.
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Thought this was interesting. Conceptual plans for Resolute Bay from architect Ralph Erskine in 1970:













https://www.instagram.com/marie_passa/?hl=en



The actual town today:


https://www.instagram.com/marie_passa/?hl=en


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:V...lute_bay_4.jpg
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^That's fascinating! Would love to have seen some more thought put into the design of our Arctic communities. IIRC there's a place in the north of Quebec that uses an apartment block as a sort of wind shield, I remember reading a VICE article about it longggg ago.
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^That's fascinating! Would love to have seen some more thought put into the design of our Arctic communities. IIRC there's a place in the north of Quebec that uses an apartment block as a sort of wind shield, I remember reading a VICE article about it longggg ago.

Fermont!



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^ Who knew

never heard of Fremont, Quebec but the design of the town makes sense.

"The town is notable for the huge self-contained structure containing apartments, stores, schools, bars, a hotel, restaurants, a supermarket and swimming pool which shelters a community of smaller apartment buildings and homes on its leeward side. The structure was designed to be a windscreen to the rest of the town. It permits residents (other than mine workers) to never leave the building during the long winter, which usually lasts about seven months."




Some interesting maps I just found on Reddit.




Even though Saskatchewan's image to the rest of Canadians is of featureless flat Prairie as far as the eye can see...

But boy does Saskie have lakes!

2 of the top 25 largest in the World.

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"Iron Mount", because it's an iron mining town; nothing to do with California explorer John Fremont.
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^ Who knew

never heard of Fremont, Quebec but the design of the town makes sense.

"The town is notable for the huge self-contained structure containing apartments, stores, schools, bars, a hotel, restaurants, a supermarket and swimming pool which shelters a community of smaller apartment buildings and homes on its leeward side. The structure was designed to be a windscreen to the rest of the town. It permits residents (other than mine workers) to never leave the building during the long winter, which usually lasts about seven months."
Do you know where the fuck this town is? It's in remote Northern Quebec. That's like me using Uranium City weather data for "Saskatchewan" (and bolding it).

By the way, it was +16C in Maple Creek (colder than Alaska!) when I was there a few days ago.
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That Top 25 Lakes really underscores why Trump is secretly mobilizing his (funded by SoCal) plans to take us down. Someone somewhere said something about the next great war will be fought over the most important resource on the planet. Details at Wet-ops.com....
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That Top 25 Lakes really underscores why Trump is secretly mobilizing his (funded by SoCal) plans to take us down. Someone somewhere said something about the next great war will be fought over the most important resource on the planet. details at Wet-ops.com..
I think it would be silly for most major countries to fight a great war over water when most of them have access to the ocean. Poor landlocked desert areas may fight over water.

How much sea water could you desalinate for the price of an Iraq War, which is just a minor war? You could get terawatts of nuclear power generating capacity, build aqueducts wherever, and make a new great lake if you felt like it (also, some of those lakes have high salinity).

Meanwhile a large scale fusion generator is under construction in Europe. I am guessing that power will be extremely cheap in 50 years as long as countries like the United States make even semi-sensible decisions (so I guess it's far from in the bag...).
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I think it would be silly for most major countries to fight a great war over water when most of them have access to the ocean. Poor landlocked desert areas may fight over water.

How much sea water could you desalinate for the price of an Iraq War, which is just a minor war? You could get terawatts of nuclear power generating capacity, build aqueducts wherever, and make a new great lake if you felt like it (also, some of those lakes have high salinity).

Meanwhile a large scale fusion generator is under construction in Europe. I am guessing that power will be extremely cheap in 50 years as long as countries like the United States make even semi-sensible decisions (so I guess it's far from in the bag...).
This is the argument I've always had. I was also uncertain if he was posting tongue-in-cheek or not.

The problem with water is that it's heavy and you need lots of it in industrial countries. Considering that the Earth is 70% water and a desalinization plant runs a couple of billion dollars for a decently large city with a few million dollars of operating costs, it makes no sense to have a bonkers war nor some super-canal to push water against gravity for thousands of miles.

I think the number one user of water is irrigation, so maybe not irrigating the desert might be a wonderful idea if we wanted to save some water.
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Old Posted Jul 30, 2020, 9:30 PM
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I think the number one user of water is irrigation, so maybe not irrigating the desert might be a wonderful idea if we wanted to save some water.
In the future I believe a lot of food production will be in a factory-like setting where evaporation and humidity can be more easily controlled. We may still produce, say, wheat or corn in easily irrigated areas or places where rainfall means irrigation is not even needed. But there will not be much reason to try to eke out food production in marginal areas, aside from distribution problems. In fact this is probably already the case.

The world population will start to fall soon. In 2100, I don't think we will have "third world countries" as we understand them today.

African GDP growth. High growth in countries that are poster children for desertification (e.g. Chad):


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Power generation will mostly be nuclear, fission or fusion. Either the US and Europe will lead this or they'll go down the wrong path and China will. Either way humanity will have far greater energy resources at its disposal than today, and many applications of electrical power that seem too expensive today won't be.

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