Tag: world maps
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How many months a year are pleasantly warm?
Count the months whose average afternoon high is 18 to 27 °C and the average city dweller gets 3.6 a year. By 2041 to 2060 it is 2.9: months are lost at the hot end, gained at the cool end, and you can pick your own band.
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Sun and rain: the world’s sunshine against its rainfall
Sunny and dry, sunny and wet, dull and dry, dull and wet: a map of the world’s sunshine against its rainfall. Only 3% of land is both sunny and wet, and 84% is sunnier than anywhere in the UK.
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There and Back Again: 2,500 years of great journeys, and how sure we are that they happened
I mapped 43 great journeys from about 600 BC to 1947, out and back, and graded each by its evidence. 18 are proven and 7 are legends, and 11 of the 12 journeys after 1450 are proven against 7 of the 31 before.
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Is the barrow a European thing?
I mapped 99,049 burial mounds and cairns from Ireland to the steppe and dated them with radiocarbon. The famous northern barrow belt is partly a belt of good records; the pattern that survives is earth against stone, and a Bronze Age peak.
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Whose Church Is It? The map of saints across Western Europe
I sorted 279,212 churches in twelve countries by their patron saint. Mary leads everywhere; then Peter, John and Martin; and Cornwall turns out to be the most varied corner of Western Europe.
