Weekend Stack of Maps 7: Lingua Gaelic

Mapping the Irish language, the Panama Canal, 36 ways to divide Taiwan, and the hottest places on earth in June, and one terrible map

Good morning and happy Saturday! Do you know what grinds my cartographic gears? Maps that have no reason being maps. Or rather, data that is better shown as graph, or basically any other way. You’ll see what I mean when you reach the end of the weekend stack of maps!

Lingua Gaelic

Did you know that English is not the native language of the Irish. You probably did. Regardless, I thought this was an interesting map of the decline of their native language. From what I’ve heard, though, the language has made some progress towards being re-established as a common language in Ireland.

Panama Canal

Just the Panama Canal. In particular I like the transect graph below that highlights some of the challenges of actually passing through it. That’s quite a bit of elevation gain for a tanker.

36 Ways to Divide Taiwan

Sorry you’re probably tired of prejudice maps after Thursday’s Map Chat, but I meant to include this one and forgot it. It’s definitely one of the larger prejudice maps I’ve seen!

Hottest Places in June

I’ve written quite a bit about the heat dome that hit the Pacific Northwest a couple weeks ago, but apparently a similar one hit the Nordic countries. Maybe not quite as extreme, but definitely as worrisome.

One Bad Map

What’s wrong with this map? Well for one the data has not real reason to be cartographic. In fact a bar chart would be a better way to synthesize the data. This is a good lesson in when to not map something.

Happy weekend! See you on Tuesday.