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u/RatioScripta

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Manaus, Brazil has access for ocean-going ships despite being deep in the Amazon rainforest, 1400km away from the ocean.

Is this the furthest port from the ocean that ocean-going ships can access without unloading cargo to another vessel?

u/RatioScripta — 23 days ago
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Spilhaus projection is one of the most interesting ones to map the world's oceans

u/RatioScripta — 26 days ago
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Having a border along a winding river is bound to get messy. Which river has moved the most from the border?

u/RatioScripta — 27 days ago
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When the Empire of Japan invaded and occupied mainland China, they held directly flat and populated areas. While failing to control hard-to-reach sparsely populated areas.

u/RatioScripta — 29 days ago
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The total Native American reservations land area compared to the UK land area.

u/RatioScripta — 30 days ago
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Most Spaniards live in a hotter and sunnier climate than most Ethiopians

Africa is often perceived as hot and sunny, but parts of it is different.

Most population in Ethiopia is concentrated in higher elevation and live in a cooler climate than most population in Spain.

Makes me question a lot of things.

u/RatioScripta — 1 month ago
▲ 688 r/Ships

Are all ring fenders old tires? Or are there some specialty ones too?

u/RatioScripta — 1 month ago
▲ 12 r/IndieDev

I picked up 3D modelling after a two decade break, hoping I can make something nice. I was disappointed.

u/RatioScripta — 1 month ago
▲ 24 r/Unity3D

How do you think these floor shaders are made?

I don't use Unity, but I'd like to understand the mechanism behind them.

The game is Viewfinder and has an amazing visual style.

u/RatioScripta — 1 month ago
▲ 429 r/geography

Are cliffs close to civilization being monitored for potential collapse?

Cliffs on the image are in La Ciotat France.

u/RatioScripta — 2 months ago
▲ 16 r/AskArchaeology

I make historical maps as a hobby and I've found data access to be an issue.

The data that I'm interested in already exists, but it's trapped somewhere.

They're spread across multiple databases, articles or PDFs. Data is usually produced for a single project, paper or funding. When the grants end, the database is effectively abandoned.

The sources I find in books lead nowhere.

The data that is in a database, in the technical sense, often has only a web interface. When an API exists, it's hard to use or returns something not useful for me. I'm familiar with REST APIs, but academic data and APIs are often in some weird format.

I haven't found a way to find data like "all documented Roman coin hoards in Britain", "all Viking settlements" or "all found hominin remains" in a format that I can use for my maps.

As I said, the data exists. For example the Roman coin hoards data. There was even a big project about it. But I can't get the data in a machine readable format.

Am I missing something or is this an actual issue professional archaeologists deal with?

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u/RatioScripta — 4 months ago
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Map of the Seven Seas in Greek sources.

A reconstruction of the major waters known to Greek geographers.

There was no fixed list. 'Seven seas' was less a number and more a way of saying the world's seas. Which for the Greeks included the Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Red Sea and Persian Sea.

u/RatioScripta — 4 months ago
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In honor of the upcoming anniversary of the Acts of Union (1 May 1707), I updated my UK and British Isles administrative map, showing:

  • England
  • Scotland
  • Wales
  • Northern Ireland
  • Republic of Ireland
  • Isle of Man
  • the Channel Islands

I'm sure I still got something wrong. If you spot any errors, let me know in the comments.

The color shades are based on Eurostat Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS).

u/RatioScripta — 4 months ago