http://www.howbigreally.com/
The BBC has launched a new site where you can visualise the scale of important historical places and events by overlaying them on a map of a location that you are already familiar with.
For instance, you can set your city as the starting point for the Great Wall of China to understand how massive it is. Or if you wish to know how far the astronauts walked when they first landed on the moon, simply overlay that area to some familiar neighbourhood.
There’s a map of the Tora Bora caves in Afghanistan where Bin Laden was thought to be hiding. Once you see that area relative to your own location, you suddenly realise how big it is.
I think it's very interesting!
Comment from Peter Paget:
ReplyDelete"Good point Barnaby.
Tell the Met Office.
As the crow flies, it is about 262 miles from Cape Wrath to the border, and some 330 miles from that border to the south coast coast of England.
The Met Office weather maps would have us believe that Scotland is not much bigger than the Isle of Wight. No wonder the English don't like the Barnet formula"
Yes, Peter, but what is the Barnet formula?
ReplyDeleteThinks: The Barnett Formula (after Joel) was the method used to decide the amount of financial input from central government to local authorities.
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