GIS Christmas day 7

Since it’s Saturday I will link to a more fun map, the map of Vaguely Rude Place Names Of The World. The name of the map says what it is all about, places that have rude names. The Nordic countries have few places on this name, and I think this is due to the languages, as rude names in Norwegian, Swedish or Finnish will be hard to get for non-natives. I guess it’s a similar thing for Russia, where the Cyrillic names are hard to read if you don’t know the letters. But I’m surprised to see Canada this “clean”. Only Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in Canada have some rude place names. Otherwise I like the simple black and white layout of the map, and using open data like OpenStreetMap and Leaflet to power the map is in my opinion good ideas.

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