Tag: Present day
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What does the world eat? National dishes, breakfasts and regional food on one map
National dishes for 186 countries and territories, breakfast styles for 73, and 2,706 regional dishes from fabada in Asturias to takoyaki in Osaka, mapped from Wikipedia and Wikidata. And why there is no lunch map.
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Darkest skies: where you can still see the Milky Way
I modelled the glow of the world’s lights from satellite images and checked it against 6,653 sky meter readings. By my count 52% of people, and 85% in the UK, cannot see the Milky Way from home.
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Where rain goes: which sea does your rain end up in?
Every place in Britain, Ireland and the world, followed downhill to the sea. 50% of Great Britain drains to the North Sea, Wales sends none of its rain there, and 24% of the world’s land never reaches the sea at all.
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How wrong is your clock?
For 76% of the world’s people the clock runs ahead of the sun. I measured the gap everywhere, and found out why winter mornings in Galicia stay dark until after nine.
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High Street or Main Street? The UK’s street-name divide
I sorted all 913,335 named streets in the UK by name. High Street rules the towns, Main Street the villages of Scotland, Northern Ireland, the East Midlands and Yorkshire, and every region has its own street words.
