Maps. All the maps.

[Bacon King]

Atlanta air traffic while a thunderstorm passes:

[dead0man]

Air Traffic Controllers, weathermen and pilots are freaking amazing.

[Bacon King]

click to embiggen:

[7,052,770]

[Enderman]

Yeah, I've lived here for two years and I'm still not used to people calling soda "pop".

Back in Elementary School, one of my teachers was from Colorado and called it "pop", or worse "soda-pop", I mean "soda" and "pop" are two completely different things. "Soda" is southwestern and Northeastern (mostly) and "pop" is Midwest, Northwestern and all along the Rust Belt. Honestly I understand Coloradoans calling it "pop", but IMO "soda-pop" is just awful. Even worse than Fred meeting Annoying Orange. (link for those who can bear your ears.

[Joe Republic]

click to embiggen:

It doesn't surprise me one bit to see NV having the lowest percentage of people born in-state, or that almost a fifth of residents were born in CA.  We like to joke that born-and-raised locals are an endangered species, and that Vegas is basically a SoCal colony.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

It would be interesting to see divides within "Outside the US".

[retromike22]

It doesn't surprise me one bit to see NV having the lowest percentage of people born in-state, or that almost a fifth of residents were born in CA.  We like to joke that born-and-raised locals are an endangered species, and that Vegas is basically a SoCal colony.

I do feel that Las Vegas is becoming more attached to So Cal. From how often I hear family/friends visit, Las Vegas just feels like a desert suburb within the same state.

[traininthedistance]

Here's an update to the Facebook NFL fandom map:



Super-big version: http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/social_assets/nfl/FB_NFL_Fandom.jpg

Some things have changed!  For example, the Seahawks have conquered Alaska. And take a look at where the Jets are #1- or don't.

One thing that is bad about this map is that the Cowboys and Giants are almost the same color, which is especially a problem since there are so many random counties of that color strewn across the country.  It's probably a safe bet to say that Osceola, FL is Giants territory and everything else is Cowboys... but would have been better map design to make the Cowboys silver instead.  Broncos/Bears has a similar issue, too, and the Broncos/Chiefs boundary is not the most clear.

Also, this map is pretty solid evidence for the Los Angeles Raiders, methinks.

[Linus Van Pelt]

According to the NOAA, "never before has the country experienced such large areas of simultaneous, opposing temperature extremes in the same January-July period."

[Јas]

[Joe Republic]

Areas where nobody lives, basically.

[Joe Republic]

[Joe Republic]

[retromike22]

Areas where nobody lives, basically.

I wonder why the outline of North Dakota is noticable.

[RI]

Areas where nobody lives, basically.

I wonder why the outline of North Dakota is noticable.

North Dakota tends to delineate things to ridiculously small levels compared to Montana and South Dakota. Similarly:

[7,052,770]

The most popular college football team by county and ZIP Code.

This is the one map I've wanted to see for years. I don't think there will ever be a more fascination map ever posted on this thread:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/03/upshot/ncaa-football-map.html

[traininthedistance]

(There are others, too.)

[Joe Republic]

http://matadornetwork.com/life/34-insanely-detailed-maps-world/

[SNJ1985]

A .gif of unemployment in Europe from 2002 to 2012:

[greenforest32]

Full resolution

[Joe Republic]

It makes me happy that Maine's most popular street name is 'Main'.

[muon2]

It makes me happy that Maine's most popular street name is 'Main'.

I get that 1st street can often be renamed something as a main thoroughfare and then 2nd would be number 1. How did 3rd street become most popular in WA?

[Bacon King]

top three for WA:

3rd / Third, 255
1st / First, 248
2nd / Second, 244

Whatever makes 3rd the most popular is probably just some minor artifact in the methodology given how close the top three are. Perhaps 3rd Streets are more likely than 2nd Streets to be split into a North 3rd Street and a South 3rd Street, or something.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/06/these-are-the-most-popular-street-names-in-every-state/
(methodology is at the end)

[Antonio the Sixth]

Dogwood?

Also, LOL @ the Northwest and Florida. Lack of imagination FTW!