Immigrant proportion of population?
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 13 April 2024 01:38 (two months ago) link
it's related to/a consequence of what Dan guessed
― StanM, Saturday, 13 April 2024 02:38 (two months ago) link
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 (two months ago) link
your second one is very close, combine with Dan's guess :-)
― StanM, Saturday, 13 April 2024 08:06 (two months ago) link
Something to do with where tourist photos have been geotagged?
― salsa shark, Saturday, 13 April 2024 08:32 (two months ago) link
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 (two months ago) link
That explains some of the more remote pins. Niagara Falls, Pyramids etc
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 13 April 2024 08:55 (two months ago) link
Looks like it, explains the canyons and the coastal strips too
― anvil, Saturday, 13 April 2024 09:56 (two months ago) link
yeah i'll take that
― Ste, Saturday, 13 April 2024 13:07 (two months ago) link
that was great! thanks :-)
― StanM, Saturday, 13 April 2024 15:19 (two months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/yR7Rn5b/map.png
― StanM, Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:35 (one month ago) link
why is that so small? hmm
― StanM, Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:37 (one month ago) link
PAL regions
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:38 (one month ago) link
i'm wrong, japan wasn't PAL.
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:42 (one month ago) link
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 month ago) link
My first guess (daylight saving time) was wrong but I'm also thinking it's tech relatedExcludes some EU+EFTA members like Poland, Hungary etcInclusion of all those oversea territories is probably key
― Nabozo, Saturday, 4 May 2024 19:47 (one month ago) link
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 month ago) link
the exclusion of the US and Canada seems important
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 5 May 2024 00:09 (one month ago) link
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 month ago) link
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 month ago) link
I'm guessing some sort of environmental regulation.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 01:30 (one month ago) link
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 month ago) link
None of the guesses are even close so far.a clue: green means not
― StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 04:52 (one month ago) link
side of the road people drive on?
― Stevo, Sunday, 5 May 2024 12:50 (one month ago) link
Do they have a side of the road in Antarctica?
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 13:02 (one month ago) link
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 month ago) link
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 month ago) link
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 month ago) link
one of those guesses is right, cherry blossom!
― StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:13 (one month ago) link
No rabies?
― emil.y, Sunday, 5 May 2024 18:57 (one month ago) link
CORRECT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_rabies#Rabies-free_jurisdictions
― StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 19:16 (one month ago) link
:( 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 month ago) link
oh no! just do it though, if you get symptoms it's too late :(
― StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 19:35 (one month ago) link
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 month ago) link
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 month ago) link
Ha, nice one, Lithuania.
― pplains, Sunday, 5 May 2024 20:28 (one month ago) link
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 month ago) link
Our bats would like a word with the author of this map
― Nabozo, Monday, 6 May 2024 08:20 (one month ago) link
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 month ago) link
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 month ago) link
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 month ago) link
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 month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FQQnZWE.png
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Friday, 31 May 2024 11:47 (two weeks ago) link
Light pollution is too obvious probably?
― StanM, Friday, 31 May 2024 13:14 (two weeks ago) link
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 (two weeks ago) link
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 (two weeks ago) link
adam t. is on the right track
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:42 (two weeks ago) link
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 (two weeks ago) link
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 (two weeks ago) link
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 (two weeks ago) link