Fun with maps

[wamego relays champ]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think Tampere, FIN is the northernmost host ever for an international track & field championships. Probably right near the top, too, for just about any Olympic sport. (It is slightly north of Lillehammer, NOR).

Has Reykjavik ever hosted anything major (excluding chess)?

[Atticus]

U.S. lightning-strike frequency
http://lightningsafety.com/nlsi_info..._Lightning.pdf

We're #1! We're #1! We're . . .

[gh]

U.S. lightning-strike frequency

http://lightningsafety.com/nlsi_info/lightningmaps/US_FD_Lightning.pdf

[Atticus]

Only about a quarter of US adults get enough exercise
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20...-exercise.aspx

Having just been to Colorado, I can attest to the fact that everyone seems to be out running, biking, hiking, kayaking!
On the flip side, being in Deep South, I do declare that's it's just too hot to do anything in the summer except sit out on the veranda sipping mint juleps.

[TN1965]

Only about a quarter of US adults get enough exercise

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180629/Only-about-a-quarter-of-US-adults-get-enough-exercise.aspx

[jeremyp]

See how your county has changed demographically in 16 years.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/22/america-is-changing-demographically-heres-how-your-county-compares/

[TN1965]

America’s graying population in 3 maps

https://www.salon.com/2018/05/27/americas-graying-population-in-3-maps_partner/

[TN1965]

The 3 most commonly spoken languages in every New York City neighborhood

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-brooklyn-manhattan-language-maps-2018-5

[26mi235]

And it looks like Harvey Mudd is second; it is the former academic home for our own JRM (also, the computer facilities I used in grad school were on the Mudd campus, so I was in that room many hours most days for several years (with eventual success). The computer center would often get mail for Mudd, Harvey C.

[mcgato]

Yay, UChicago leads the pack!

[TN1965]

The most expensive college in every state

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/most-expensive-college-every-state-141300439.html

[Davidokun]

Literal World Map Reveals the Historical Meanings of Country Names

https://mymodernmet.com/literal-world-map

[Halfmiler2]

Why is that surprising? In France both conservatives and communists were against women's suffrage. Conservatives were for predictable reasons, and communists thought married women would simply vote the same way as their husbands did.

In the USA, there were places that women had the vote long before 1920 especially in parts of the west. In Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho, women could vote before 1900. And they could vote in New Jersey between 1790 and 1807.

[Olli]

years in which women got the vote, by-nation (go New Zealand!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/com..._each_country/

Yea, but Finland was the first country in which women were eligible, and elected, to the Parliament (1907).

[26mi235]

That is in nominal income. While adjusting for cost of living is a little tricky, 96,000 does not make really cushy living in the middle of Silicon Valley or parts of San Francisco.