Guess The Map

one of those guesses is right, cherry blossom!

No rabies?

CORRECT

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

:( sigh

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

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

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

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

Ha, nice one, Lithuania.

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.

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

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).

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

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

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.

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

Light pollution is too obvious probably?

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.

honestly the only thing that makes sense is population density

adam t. is on the right track

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

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

The Canary Islands are lit up

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

Mauritius & Réunion, east of Madagaskar, too

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

now pondering what south korea and southeast england have in common

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

afaik continental Europe is Nando-less?

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

on second thought, the US would be the brightest.

bicycle usage

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)

wow i rule

you do

south korea getting biz-ay

completely and thoroughly

https://scontent.fslc3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/456063611_472399819112709_4974670646802839732_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=bKH6qvL8Y2cQ7kNvgGEZ5Tc&_nc_ht=scontent.fslc3-2.fna&oh=00_AYCMERwCj0YIzKHnqgcTpy0kj5GYos_WfxxbeeEy4SFQGA&oe=66CDD2B7

the world, imo

Episcopalian churches

Whatever it is they don't have them in Australia

this one's a mystery

Some of those dots aren't islands

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Which would explain overrepresentation of Falklands and underrepresentation of Melbourne

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