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anvil, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 08:49 (one year ago)

I want a try at one of these

anvil, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 08:50 (one year ago)

oooh, good idea! Stumped, though.

StanM, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 11:48 (one year ago)

• Doesn't appear to be anything natural like crops, since green covers everything from the Dominican Republic to Russia.

• Doesn't appear to be anything political or related to human rights.

• It doesn't look like any current or former UK possessions are noted, but there are plenty of non-UK places like Brazil unmarked.

pplains, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 16:22 (one year ago)

oooh, good idea! Stumped, though.

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pplains, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 16:22 (one year ago)

Yeah, can we get a hint?

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 16:27 (one year ago)

do Turkmenistan, Angola, Syria, Cameroon have a secret Eurovision type song competition we don't know about?

StanM, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 16:46 (one year ago)

Based on reverse frequency I'm assuming Chartreuse > Violet > Green ?

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 16:58 (one year ago)

Nailed it!
It's favourite colours by country.

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 17:00 (one year ago)

Ha! countries collaborating on an international Mardi Gras celebration?

felicity, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 17:28 (one year ago)

Yeah, can we get a hint?

It isn't really a hint but I can remove some noise. After doing some research I think the purple and yellow are red herrings and should be ignored. It is only the green countries that share this thing in common.

anvil, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 17:29 (one year ago)

Is it a sports thing?

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 18:05 (one year ago)

Is it consumption of a food stuff?

Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 18:14 (one year ago)

Those couple dozen round dots, mostly gray but a few green, and many of them in the ocean, would not be there meaninglessly. There's a whole slew of them in the southern Caribbean. Meanwhile, North America as a whole seems to be considered irrelevant. A profoundly strange map!

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 18:37 (one year ago)

Yeah, Peru, Algeria, Russia... ?

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 18:46 (one year ago)

I suspect the dots are just the cartographer's attempt at making small countries show up rather than being a separate category of map data.

http://weeklymap.org for more stuff like this btw (don't think it's updated anymore but 111 puzzles is plenty...)

salsa shark, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:21 (one year ago)

Yet some of those dots show up within larger countries, which confuses matters even further.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:24 (one year ago)

They're small countries I think. Luxembourg, San Marino, Isle of Man, etc.

Maybe a clue in the ABC islands: Curacao is green but Bonaire and Aruba are grey...

salsa shark, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:26 (one year ago)

that's the world

ciderpress, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:27 (one year ago)

are all the green nations ones that criminalise or legislate against the civil rights of LGBT people?

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:42 (one year ago)

I'm suspecting a Russian sphere of influence because of Eastern Europe + MENA + Venezuela.
Is it something stupid like plugs ?
Or maybe something with trade

Working notes:
- Rwanda and Burundi are an exception in Central / East Africa
- Yemen also an exception
- Indonesia + Malaysia and Ghana the only green in their respective regions
- Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, one island

Nabozo, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:04 (one year ago)

I'm gonna guess Russian oil & gas consumers.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:51 (one year ago)

Whatever it is, none of the postwar/pre-Soviet collapse western democracies have it. And maybe it's the more socially conservative countries that have it? That makes me wonder if it's not a socio-legal thing.

Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:17 (one year ago)

xpost - surely China and India would be Russian oil/gas consumers?

Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:18 (one year ago)

also cuba, and probably not mauritius

mookieproof, Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:20 (one year ago)

Another pointer to this being a legal thing is the ABC countries - Curacao is green whereas Aruba and Bonaire are not. That corresponds with Aruba and Bonaire being under Dutch law whereas Curacao has its own constitution and legal system. Could it be something to do with taxation? Or maybe age of consent, divorce laws, same-sex laws or something like that.

Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 21 March 2024 02:18 (one year ago)

only thing i can think of is 'served on some fucked-up UN committee like that for human rights'

mookieproof, Thursday, 21 March 2024 02:19 (one year ago)

I'm thinking Calzino is right and it's something to do with LGBT rights. Maps on same-sex marriage or adoption rights look very similar.

Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 21 March 2024 02:30 (one year ago)

Thing is, Japan has atrocious LGBT recognition iirc, and so would have some kind of colouring.

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 March 2024 02:34 (one year ago)

yeah no...

LGBT rights in Yemen

Same-sex sexual activity is punishable by death; this law is applied to both men and women. Members of the LGBT community additionally face stigmatization and homophobic violence among the broader population. A provincial court in Yemen sentenced several people to death for engaging in homosexual acts in 2024.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 21 March 2024 02:43 (one year ago)

That pesky Yemen!

Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 21 March 2024 03:39 (one year ago)

That pesky Russia!

Perú and Ecuador are both green. They hate each other and don't have a lot in common besides geography and language.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 March 2024 03:57 (one year ago)

kinda feel like it has to be tied to oil production, or dependency on it for each country's economy

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 21 March 2024 04:01 (one year ago)

Nothing of substance (or more herrings), but just noting that the Russian Arctic islands aside from Severny appear uniquely cobalt blue.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 21 March 2024 04:12 (one year ago)

Those are herrings, Green is all that matters.

I won't give a hint yet as there is activity, and it will be more satisfying for someone to get there without one if possible

anvil, Thursday, 21 March 2024 04:22 (one year ago)

Although it may be something of an unknown hint I haven't worked out what the yellow/purple is (whereas blue is just an anomaly). There was no key on the map and when I checked for myself only the green countries met the condition. so maybe the purple/yellow countries used to meet the condition or will meet the condition in the future but that is pure speculation I actually don't know. So they're not necessarily herrings but wouldn't focus on them too much, green is definitely correct and blue is definitely a herring

anvil, Thursday, 21 March 2024 04:27 (one year ago)

is this map pulled from somewhere or is it something you generated?

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 21 March 2024 04:35 (one year ago)

Its a map I pulled from somewhere

anvil, Thursday, 21 March 2024 04:47 (one year ago)

from your ass?

pplains, Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:07 (one year ago)

“Countries in which it is legal to pay a trapeze artist less than standard minimum wage”

Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:10 (one year ago)

“Countries with samovars or samovar-type tea brewing”

“Countries where cats are more popular than dogs, as pets”

“Countries where ‘Peter’ is more common than ‘John’”

Anvil the real answer had better be good I puzzled and googled this for over an hour last night

Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:14 (one year ago)

ILX: come for the zings, stay for the comparison of legal systems between Aruba and Curacao...

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:18 (one year ago)

Is it amount of inward investment by China in these countries?

Dan Worsley, Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:00 (one year ago)

How old is this map? South Sudan isn't marked, though it may be covered up by that yellow blob.

pplains, Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:09 (one year ago)

I think the map is from 2020, but its accurate for today.

South Sudan is on the map isn't it? I assume the map is just a base template map

anvil, Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:27 (one year ago)

wait, I have it! Is it Earth?

StanM, Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:43 (one year ago)

Surely for a 'Guess the..' thread, this has to follow the "Guess the City" thread where you post an image of the inside of someone's shoe then disappear for a month?

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Thursday, 21 March 2024 16:57 (one year ago)

Ok, let me think of a suitable hint on the way home. I'll post one in a couple of hours unless anyone wants a bit more time

anvil, Thursday, 21 March 2024 19:03 (one year ago)

Has anyone been in the right ballpark?

Dan Worsley, Thursday, 21 March 2024 19:30 (one year ago)

I think all of the answers so far have been in the same ballpark as each other, but none of them in the same ballpark as the answer

anvil, Thursday, 21 March 2024 19:47 (one year ago)

IIRC, Perú's biggest exports are copper, gold, oil and fish-related products (fertilizer, animal pellets).

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:06 (one year ago)

Countries that don't have Starbucks yet

jk I know that's wrong

Josefa, Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:54 (one year ago)

I really thought Dominican Republic would give me some big clues but it didn't.

I blinked and it was a new decade (aldo), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:05 (one year ago)

If it’s like all countries with nickel deposits or something I’m going to hurl the computer through the window

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:15 (one year ago)

Countries that have an even number of McDonald's restaurants

StanM, Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:24 (one year ago)

The DR and anvil's hint makes me think it's baseball or Olympic related.

felicity, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:26 (one year ago)

If that is a reference to the ballpark reference, that isn't a hint. Dan Worsley introduced that reference and I was just replying in kind

anvil, Friday, 22 March 2024 05:58 (one year ago)

Although neither answer is close, Josefa and StanM have been the closest with their suggestions

anvil, Friday, 22 March 2024 06:00 (one year ago)

'incidences of certain businesses' would be quite a letdown

mookieproof, Friday, 22 March 2024 06:18 (one year ago)

Is it countries Amazon don’t operate in?

Dan Worsley, Friday, 22 March 2024 12:50 (one year ago)

No, because Germany is there

I blinked and it was a new decade (aldo), Friday, 22 March 2024 16:50 (one year ago)

(Germany is purple fwiw)

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 22 March 2024 16:55 (one year ago)

Countries that perpetrate(d) genocide?

Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 22 March 2024 17:30 (one year ago)

oh wait, you said green is what matters.

Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 22 March 2024 17:30 (one year ago)

been trying to focus on the Ghana presence but getting nothing.

Ste, Friday, 22 March 2024 18:28 (one year ago)

Google maps / satellite / streetview coverage? even though I've already disproved this myself.

gene besserit (ledge), Friday, 22 March 2024 18:28 (one year ago)

I forgot about this after trying to think how to do a clue

'incidences of certain businesses' would be quite a letdown

It might be considered as a letdown

anvil, Friday, 29 March 2024 09:09 (one year ago)

It really is a strange subset of countries. I can't decide if "green" means "has" or "has not". What could Western Sahara, Russia, Bonaire and Mauritius have in common? But if it is a "has not", then what the hell is going on in CAR and Chad and Niger, but not Ghana?

If there is a boat for those of us who are saying "I give up, tell us the answer already" I'm on that boat

Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 29 March 2024 14:22 (one year ago)

Green means the country has it

anvil, Friday, 29 March 2024 15:55 (one year ago)

*removes bookmark*

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 March 2024 16:05 (one year ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC_Waikiki

anvil, Friday, 29 March 2024 16:36 (one year ago)

LOL ok I’m mad haha

I’ve never even heard of that thing

Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 29 March 2024 16:50 (one year ago)

*re-removes bookmark, throw laptop out window*

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 March 2024 16:53 (one year ago)

With approx 54,000 employees worldwide, LC WAIKIKI directly employs nearly 0.000007% of the world's population!

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 29 March 2024 17:23 (one year ago)

Ok, my turn...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC_Waikiki#/media/File:Lcw_magazalar_turkiye.svg

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 March 2024 17:43 (one year ago)

I'll come back in a few months if anyone needs any hints.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 March 2024 17:43 (one year ago)

It is a great thread idea anvil tbqph

Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 29 March 2024 18:11 (one year ago)

but but

what do the colours mean?

StanM, Friday, 29 March 2024 18:18 (one year ago)

blue = yes, blue = no, grey = yes no

Ste, Friday, 29 March 2024 22:18 (one year ago)

oh, that makes perfect sense - thank you :-)

StanM, Saturday, 30 March 2024 11:43 (one year ago)

ignore the markers i think, all about the heat map

Ste, Thursday, 11 April 2024 19:57 (one year ago)

Number of lights on at a certain point of the day.

emil.y, Thursday, 11 April 2024 19:57 (one year ago)

no :)

Ste, Thursday, 11 April 2024 20:01 (one year ago)

it looks very city/ population related - could be so many things

StanM, Thursday, 11 April 2024 20:25 (one year ago)

guessing McDonald's restaurants again?

StanM, Thursday, 11 April 2024 20:27 (one year ago)

availability of bratwurst

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 11 April 2024 20:29 (one year ago)

Places Where Germans Go On Holiday

mookieproof, Thursday, 11 April 2024 20:30 (one year ago)

places introverts should avoid

StanM, Thursday, 11 April 2024 20:36 (one year ago)

Number of Volkswagen cars

Overtoun House windows (aldo), Thursday, 11 April 2024 20:49 (one year ago)

Neanderthal DNA prevalence

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:26 (one year ago)

People searching what "LC WAIKIKI" was last week.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 April 2024 01:35 (one year ago)

Given the prominence of Germany and Central Europe I'm guessing something to do with alcohol, maybe beer consumption

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 12 April 2024 03:01 (one year ago)

Iceland is too purple for this to be human/population related

StanM, Friday, 12 April 2024 04:09 (one year ago)

It's got to be in some way population related as most major conurbations are marked yellow

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 12 April 2024 05:04 (one year ago)

Is it coverage of 5G or something similar?

Dan Worsley, Friday, 12 April 2024 06:02 (one year ago)

I'm trying to understand why the three parallel lines north east of Moscow - and the lines in Egypt

StanM, Friday, 12 April 2024 06:06 (one year ago)

power lines?

StanM, Friday, 12 April 2024 06:21 (one year ago)

Density of pubs/bars

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 12 April 2024 06:58 (one year ago)

Qatar and Dubai well known for their drinking culture.

Dan Worsley, Friday, 12 April 2024 07:09 (one year ago)

Reading through this and finding out what the first map represented does just leave me wondering how arbitrary the shops' distribution were. If there is anything linking why they are set up where they are.
I guess the semi randomness was why the map was picked but presume there must be some order as to how a business is set up. History of trade or something. What directs aesthetic taste across such a broad area if the goods are at least semi uniform across the shops. Like business serving a recognised demand etc. &specific business instead of any alternative.

Stevo, Friday, 12 April 2024 07:56 (one year ago)

none correct so far

Ste, Friday, 12 April 2024 11:28 (one year ago)

100% not-population related because India/China/Indonesia are pretty mid in the heatmap and that's where 40% of the planet's population lives.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 April 2024 11:43 (one year ago)

Iceland feels key to this.

anvil, Friday, 12 April 2024 12:01 (one year ago)

Florida, France, Spain, Turkey (and the Black Sea in general) all have a notable discrepancy between the coast and inland

anvil, Friday, 12 April 2024 12:09 (one year ago)

Kinshasa (Congo) is 16 million people and hardly visible on that map, Reykjavik 122k

StanM, Friday, 12 April 2024 12:41 (one year ago)

Iceland keeps me going back to power (solar/hydro/wind/geothermal) but if none of the above guesses were correct then maybe not, after all :-/

StanM, Friday, 12 April 2024 12:44 (one year ago)

the Kuril islands (Japan <-> Kamchatka archipelago) are suspiciously visible too (only 20-odd thousand inhabitants, there can't be power lines or railways between them) - but what can it be then? mmmmmmmm

StanM, Friday, 12 April 2024 12:50 (one year ago)

(archipelago->peninsula sorry)

StanM, Friday, 12 April 2024 12:51 (one year ago)

It could be that people don't live there. Vacation destinations would tie in with the coastal differences in France, Florida, Turkey and the others

anvil, Friday, 12 April 2024 13:03 (one year ago)

life expectancy?
or its direct opposite. levels of violence?

Stevo, Friday, 12 April 2024 13:07 (one year ago)

herring consumption

devvvine, Friday, 12 April 2024 13:08 (one year ago)

nope

Ste, Friday, 12 April 2024 16:10 (one year ago)

it's something really basic

Ste, Friday, 12 April 2024 16:10 (one year ago)

but i can give a better clue if you want one

Ste, Friday, 12 April 2024 16:12 (one year ago)

concentration of german bank branches

he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 12 April 2024 16:16 (one year ago)

no

Ste, Friday, 12 April 2024 16:18 (one year ago)

the thing that sticks out to me is yellow in the southwestern us, some of those places are podunkville

he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 12 April 2024 16:18 (one year ago)

Mercedes Benz ownership

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 April 2024 16:20 (one year ago)

nah

Ste, Friday, 12 April 2024 16:25 (one year ago)

sewage piping

devvvine, Friday, 12 April 2024 16:29 (one year ago)

The pins got me thinking are they the most visited places in the world by tourists?

Dan Worsley, Friday, 12 April 2024 16:35 (one year ago)

I think thats right, and would explain why the coastal strips are yellow in some places, much more so than adjacent interiors

anvil, Friday, 12 April 2024 16:43 (one year ago)

the thing that sticks out to me is yellow in the southwestern us, some of those places are podunkville

Canyons?

anvil, Friday, 12 April 2024 16:44 (one year ago)

getting close Dan

Ste, Friday, 12 April 2024 16:45 (one year ago)

Well, I mean you almost nailed it but the specific is different

Ste, Friday, 12 April 2024 16:45 (one year ago)

I found it by googling but I won't spoil

StanM, Friday, 12 April 2024 17:15 (one year ago)

cool you can help with the replies, when i aint' here but dan almost got it so might not be long before a result.

Ste, Friday, 12 April 2024 18:37 (one year ago)

Something to do with transport? Highest concentration of cars, busiest roads, something like that?

Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 13 April 2024 01:28 (one year ago)

Airbnb density?

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 13 April 2024 01:37 (one year ago)

Immigrant proportion of population?

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 13 April 2024 01:38 (one year ago)

it's related to/a consequence of what Dan guessed

StanM, Saturday, 13 April 2024 02:38 (one year ago)

extensive underground cave networks?

canon cameras are sold

elevation above or below sea level since all the mountains have been levelled recently.

Stevo, Saturday, 13 April 2024 07:33 (one year ago)

your second one is very close, combine with Dan's guess :-)

StanM, Saturday, 13 April 2024 08:06 (one year ago)

Something to do with where tourist photos have been geotagged?

salsa shark, Saturday, 13 April 2024 08:32 (one year ago)

I would call that 99% correct - I hope Ste agrees but I'll reveal...

it's a "touristiness" heatmap of the most photographed places based on photographs submitted to Panoramio. -> https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2012/01/world-tourism-heatmaps.html

StanM, Saturday, 13 April 2024 08:51 (one year ago)

That explains some of the more remote pins. Niagara Falls, Pyramids etc

Dan Worsley, Saturday, 13 April 2024 08:55 (one year ago)

Looks like it, explains the canyons and the coastal strips too

anvil, Saturday, 13 April 2024 09:56 (one year ago)

yeah i'll take that

Ste, Saturday, 13 April 2024 13:07 (one year ago)

that was great! thanks :-)

StanM, Saturday, 13 April 2024 15:19 (one year ago)

three weeks pass...

https://i.ibb.co/yR7Rn5b/map.png

StanM, Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:35 (one year ago)

why is that so small? hmm

StanM, Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:37 (one year ago)

PAL regions

adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:38 (one year ago)

i'm wrong, japan wasn't PAL.

adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:42 (one year ago)

let's try another site then, this shouldn't be shrunk like the first attempt:

https://i.postimg.cc/hGKjB3gf/map.gif

StanM, Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:48 (one year ago)

My first guess (daylight saving time) was wrong but I'm also thinking it's tech related
Excludes some EU+EFTA members like Poland, Hungary etc
Inclusion of all those oversea territories is probably key

Nabozo, Saturday, 4 May 2024 19:47 (one year ago)

western europe, australia and new zealand, antarctica, japan, hong kong, a bunch of island nations.

japan and hong kong seem significant, but why antarctica?

adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 4 May 2024 23:01 (one year ago)

the exclusion of the US and Canada seems important

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 5 May 2024 00:09 (one year ago)

that one green dot just north of venezuela appears to be bonaire (dutch). the other caribbean green dots are too crowded for me to make out, but they're *not* dutch

also curious that hong kong and macau are included

mookieproof, Sunday, 5 May 2024 00:38 (one year ago)

I was thinking signatories to an Antarctic treaty or something but that doesn't check out. Must be something regulatory though, given how the overseas territories of a country all line up.

Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 01:17 (one year ago)

I'm guessing some sort of environmental regulation.

Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 01:30 (one year ago)

Or banking regulations? It seems neither Isle of Man or the Channel Islands are green. Another oddity: Estonia and Latvia are green but Lithuania isn't.

Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 02:28 (one year ago)

None of the guesses are even close so far.

a clue: green means not

StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 04:52 (one year ago)

side of the road people drive on?

Stevo, Sunday, 5 May 2024 12:50 (one year ago)

Do they have a side of the road in Antarctica?

Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 13:02 (one year ago)

Given Stan's hint, I'm guessing the green countries do not have a law discriminating against something that the other countries do. A bit flummoxed by Antarctica though.

Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 13:05 (one year ago)

Antarctica, remote Island Nations, Western Europe, Australia/NZ, that don't have something.

Most of these places are either isolated, tiny, or likely to have controls of some sort. So its some kind of bad flora/fauna/disease that they don't have

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:39 (one year ago)

Lithuania and Poland the counter to that, if there are no border checks?

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:41 (one year ago)

one of those guesses is right, cherry blossom!

StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:13 (one year ago)

No rabies?

emil.y, Sunday, 5 May 2024 18:57 (one year ago)

CORRECT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_rabies#Rabies-free_jurisdictions

StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 19:16 (one year ago)

:( sigh

(I got dogbit this past week and have to get the rabies shots starting tomorrow)

your dog is fed and no one cares (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 5 May 2024 19:31 (one year ago)

oh no! just do it though, if you get symptoms it's too late :(

StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 19:35 (one year ago)

Yeah I know. I thought we found the dog but it was the wrong dog. Bleahhhhh

your dog is fed and no one cares (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 5 May 2024 20:08 (one year ago)

maybe I was a little bit too fast with my hint, I'm too eager to help sometimes :-)

StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 20:18 (one year ago)

Ha, nice one, Lithuania.

pplains, Sunday, 5 May 2024 20:28 (one year ago)

Woooooo! Thank you cherry blossom & StanM, wouldn't have got there without those prompts but it totally clicked into place and I was reasonably confident in the rabies guess.

emil.y, Sunday, 5 May 2024 20:55 (one year ago)

Our bats would like a word with the author of this map

Nabozo, Monday, 6 May 2024 08:20 (one year ago)

Part of the reason I was confident is because a few years ago I had to look up whether British bats had rabies (injured bat in the house). The emergency vet just called it rabies, but it's a different strain of rabies virus ("European Bat Lyssavirus") and so the UK can maintain its rabies-free claim (based on what the site I'm looking at right now calls "classical rabies", nice nice).

emil.y, Monday, 6 May 2024 13:03 (one year ago)

I remember being told as a kid that France had rabies, but googling it, it seems it's been free since 2001

Zelda Zonk, Monday, 6 May 2024 13:12 (one year ago)

I think pet passports were introduced at about that time? That would make sense as part of an international push to eradicate it.

emil.y, Monday, 6 May 2024 13:21 (one year ago)

Interesting. My doctor described us as free of terrestrial rabies, which is a cool way of saying bats. Apparently no strain of the rabies virus is older than 1500 years. It's originally from bats and shifted to foxes, dogs, skunks etc, which means it's being again contained to the original hosts. And apparently the vaccine served as a base for one of the Covid vaccines, described as a "deactivated rabies-virus Covid vaccine". Which I guess is why you hire people for marketing after scientists do their job.

Nabozo, Monday, 6 May 2024 13:34 (one year ago)

three weeks pass...

https://i.imgur.com/FQQnZWE.png

Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Friday, 31 May 2024 11:47 (one year ago)

Light pollution is too obvious probably?

StanM, Friday, 31 May 2024 13:14 (one year ago)

hmm. europe, japan, south korea all lit up. usa and mexico around the same. cuba and north korea completely dark. i'm thinking it's some cultural thing like soccer players.

adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:19 (one year ago)

honestly the only thing that makes sense is population density

Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:40 (one year ago)

adam t. is on the right track

Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:42 (one year ago)

Is it misleading that it looks like a map of might lights, then, if it's a cultural thing?

Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:48 (one year ago)

Dhaka isn't lit up, though it might be covered by the country label

The Canary Islands are lit up

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:51 (one year ago)

South Korea, Java, New Zealand are a couple of locations that seem more lit up than expected imho

StanM, Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:51 (one year ago)

Mauritius & Réunion, east of Madagaskar, too

StanM, Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:53 (one year ago)

South Korea is a hotspot, is it something like mobile phone use?

Dan Worsley, Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:53 (one year ago)

now pondering what south korea and southeast england have in common

Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:54 (one year ago)

does south korea have Nando's? I know Mauritus has like the most per capita in the world (don't ask how I know)

Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:55 (one year ago)

afaik continental Europe is Nando-less?

StanM, Saturday, 1 June 2024 19:28 (one year ago)

I see that Coca-Cola is banned in Cuba and North Korea -- is it Coke sales?

adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 2 June 2024 02:55 (one year ago)

on second thought, the US would be the brightest.

adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 2 June 2024 02:57 (one year ago)

bicycle usage

mookieproof, Sunday, 2 June 2024 03:14 (one year ago)

I will accept that as correct. It is a heat map of cycling activities recorded online on the most popular global app.

(Russia and some other countries are not rendered/displayed due to political reasons)

Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 2 June 2024 03:26 (one year ago)

wow i rule

mookieproof, Sunday, 2 June 2024 03:59 (one year ago)

you do

StanM, Sunday, 2 June 2024 05:17 (one year ago)

south korea getting biz-ay

completely and thoroughly

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 June 2024 19:41 (one year ago)

two months pass...

the world, imo

mookieproof, Friday, 23 August 2024 03:08 (ten months ago)

Episcopalian churches

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 23 August 2024 03:25 (ten months ago)

Whatever it is they don't have them in Australia

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 23 August 2024 03:49 (ten months ago)

this one's a mystery

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 August 2024 03:52 (ten months ago)

Some of those dots aren't islands

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 23 August 2024 03:53 (ten months ago)

Mainly thinking of the dots in the North Sea but also the one in the Adriatic

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 23 August 2024 03:58 (ten months ago)

The other two that are puzzling are the dot in the Gulf of Mexico and the one in the Hudson Bay (I would guess Akimiski island but it might just be in the bay). Akimiski doesn't appear to have anything noteworthy attached to it

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 23 August 2024 04:11 (ten months ago)

can people who do this please provide a hi-res of the maps? i honestly can't tell if those spots in the ocean are part of it or not.

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 23 August 2024 05:27 (ten months ago)

so Fairbanks, Alaska pops up but Las Vegas doesn't...

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 23 August 2024 05:30 (ten months ago)

No Sydney, São Paulo, or Melbourne either, and with the islands and also not islands I don't think this is anything to do with cities or populated areas

The not islands like in the North Sea have to be the biggest clue.

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 23 August 2024 05:39 (ten months ago)

i'm trying to wrap my head around why the EU and most of the familiar metro areas are solid and yet there's a spot between canada and greenland.

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 23 August 2024 05:42 (ten months ago)

Its something that can be true on both land and sea and it can't be something physical because its just sea, so they have to be where incidents occurred. And at sea I can only think of ships sinking, but ships don't sink on land. But ships sink when shot at which means these have to be war incidents which also occur on land

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 23 August 2024 05:43 (ten months ago)

though it could also be planes not just ships. Its either battles or incidents where people died

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 23 August 2024 05:44 (ten months ago)

Which would explain overrepresentation of Falklands and underrepresentation of Melbourne

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 23 August 2024 05:46 (ten months ago)

wtf that the only part of Australia represented is the Tiwi Islands

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 23 August 2024 06:03 (ten months ago)

Or could that be Darwin? Which would fit in with the battle places theory as the Japanese attacked Darwin during WW2. But if it's battles, why isn't Vietnam more heavily dotted ..

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 23 August 2024 08:02 (ten months ago)

still standing buildings built before 1800

devvvine, Friday, 23 August 2024 11:34 (ten months ago)

if it's battles then it's got a different source than this one because there's no dot in the Davis Strait (between Canada or Greenland) - https://www.siliconrepublic.com/life/battles-of-the-planet-interactive-map-shows-every-known-battlefield-on-earth

StanM, Friday, 23 August 2024 12:27 (ten months ago)

but it doesn't feel THAT different

StanM, Friday, 23 August 2024 12:28 (ten months ago)

Akimiski Island / James Bay is a problem for the battles theory advocates but maybe it depends how far back you go and who recorded what. I can't think of anything else that covers the North Sea though where there are no islands!

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 23 August 2024 16:01 (ten months ago)

wtf that the only part of Australia represented is the Tiwi Islands

I see Perth too?

Ste, Friday, 23 August 2024 16:27 (ten months ago)

it's battles from 2500 bc via wikipedia. not very comprehensive obviously lol.

he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 23 August 2024 16:56 (ten months ago)

huh, i wonder what's the battle in west australia

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 August 2024 17:03 (ten months ago)

Google suggests the pinjarra massacre

nxd, Friday, 23 August 2024 17:07 (ten months ago)

i'm surprised there were that many sea battles back then

ava (paolo), Saturday, 24 August 2024 07:43 (ten months ago)

Battles made sense for North Sea and Falklands but still stumped on Akimiski!

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Saturday, 24 August 2024 08:47 (ten months ago)

we fight a lot don't we

Ste, Saturday, 24 August 2024 08:54 (ten months ago)

Aussies seem pretty relaxed (about recording their battles)

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Saturday, 24 August 2024 08:55 (ten months ago)

But is it a lot? Its a 4500 time period on a plant of billions and no indication of how large an incident has to be to count

Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Saturday, 24 August 2024 08:57 (ten months ago)

The map comes from this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK5OsDWYJmQ

bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Saturday, 24 August 2024 10:47 (ten months ago)

https://i.imgur.com/qi1ui0P.png

Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 29 August 2024 20:45 (ten months ago)

what savages still use the mercator projection

ledge, Thursday, 29 August 2024 21:04 (ten months ago)

white people of the world

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 29 August 2024 21:12 (ten months ago)

Whatever this is, it seems highly correlated with national wealth.

Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 29 August 2024 21:13 (ten months ago)

except for the Middle East...

StanM, Thursday, 29 August 2024 21:29 (ten months ago)

incidence of dementia

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 29 August 2024 23:20 (ten months ago)

what is that little dark spot in the Gulf - Djibouti?

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 29 August 2024 23:25 (ten months ago)

Average life expectancy?

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 30 August 2024 02:55 (ten months ago)

Average life expectancy?

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 30 August 2024 02:55 (ten months ago)

Reverse google image searched it, good luck getting this one guys.

bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Friday, 30 August 2024 10:08 (ten months ago)

Greenland complete contrast to the adjacent lands, hmmmm

Ste, Friday, 30 August 2024 10:35 (ten months ago)

(this time Greenland and Svalbard aren't part of Denmark and Norway, respectively - they sometimes are) - and Crete and Mallorca are probably too small to see (or the lines around them are too thick)

StanM, Friday, 30 August 2024 14:41 (ten months ago)

Iran, Irak, Afghanistan, Libya, Djibouti, North Korea are brighter than their surrounding countries - is it something political? (but then Greenland and Svalbard again - and those two shouldn't be life expectancy either I think)

StanM, Friday, 30 August 2024 14:53 (ten months ago)

Pakistan, Syria, Sudan, also - political? Terrorism?

StanM, Friday, 30 August 2024 14:57 (ten months ago)


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