Examining Interesting Maps Part 12

[@HazelGIS]

I'm Hazel and made the 6 state Tornado map. Thank you so much for the kind words and comments! I greatly appreciate it! 😊

[@Phylonyous]

Lovely map, but I’m colour blind and I can only see difference between TX and LA… the others blend together… just and fyi in case you update it 🫶

[@MilanMilan0000]

It's really well designed, keep it up!

[@Mindbombable]

No Legend... oh there is a legend here ;) The map really is beautiful and maintains the essence of what infographics can be... instantly communicate meaning and data. Thx.

[@TheSilentWhales]

Congrats!

[@curtvona4891]

Great job! 👍

[@dictatorofcanada4238]

I am the creator of the Manitoba maps, I have completed a total of 10 maps for different ethnicities in Manitoba that are important to the provinces cultural fabric. (I was secretly hoping all of them would be shown, but that would take too long).

[@bmjv77]

Thanks Chairman Trudeau!

[@kimmontenegro2258]

I was dozing off when I heard about the dictator of Canada 😂 Wide awake now😂

[@marklittle8805]

I think Dictator you did pretty well. I know I should do some of Ontario. We have some wacky things I could do in this format...just need to figure it out

[@sumdued]

Hi! I'm Paul and I made the strongest tornado per county map at 6:33! Thanks for including my map!! I had fun making it and wasn't expecting to see myself here ❤

[@magellanicspaceclouds]

I like professionalism is every discipline. Kyle is a true geography professional!

[@senatorjosephmccarthy2720]

Even in proofreading?

[@FreedomAndLibertyGuy]

This channel is one of my favorites. It’s interesting without being heavy or political. Thank you for sharing what you love with all of us. This is totally Mr Roger’s Neighborhood + a cup hot chocolate + Claire de Lune + a freshly mowed lawn. Props.

[@orangelab6846]

Great job by ALL contributors! Congrats, Hazel😊

[@dereks1263]

Absolutely love this channel! No one examines maps and geography better on this site

[@nickimontie]

The talent displayed here is amazing! Kudos to all of the map makers!

[@PeterWiernicki]

9:27 --> Best map label ever: "12.6% of Manitobans are Pierogi Pinchers!" 🤣

[@dictatorofcanada4238]

Creator here - Thank you! I actually made more maps for some other ethnicities in Manitoba and included a similar one-liner for each of them.

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

@@dictatorofcanada4238They are however perogies or varenyky, not pierogi. That's the Polish word.

[@dictatorofcanada4238]

@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co I used the Polish spelling because I thought that was the spelling Americans recognized.

[@frigginjerk]

@@dictatorofcanada4238 Speaking as an American with Polish heritage, who has hand-made hundreds and hundreds of pierogi in his time, dziękuję.

[@dj-kq4fz]

Thanks Kyle and all the cartographers! Great stuff!

[@adamwroblewski1435]

As soon as I saw Hazel's I thought it should win. Glad it was the champ! All cool stuff here. Can't wait for the next edition Kyle.

[@sandhillfarmer1]

The Minnesota high point map was fascinating. Makes me want to dust off the old GIS skills

[@benjaminfortney9655]

All of these maps were cool, but the map showing bus service levels was for me definitely the best. I have a number of aesthetically pleasing maps of places that were important to me adorning my walls, but the most interesting thing that a map can do is not just to explain what has happened or what is, but to point us toward ways we can be better.

[@americansmark]

The interactive tornado county map and the outbreak map that followed it were both incredible.

[@SmallwoodMedia]

Now I'm all caught up with this series! I look forward to the next installment, and I always enjoy your work. Thank you!

[@docjaramillo]

Love your Channel, Kyle. Always feel equally entertained and educated. Keep truckin’… let me know if you ever want an NYC tour from a 20 year city transplant from NM. I’d love to show you the unique geography of this crowded fascinating place

[@okyouknowwhat]

The dodecatology we didn’t know we needed

[@philipstaite4775]

Well done! I completely agree with your choice of the best map. That is beautiful, informative, and very clever. I had intuitively figured out the color scheme, then realizing the state abbreviations confirmed it.... Really well done.

[@mattmedina8792]

Love your videos! Been interested in geography since my world geography class in freshman year of high school!

[@Buckshot9796]

Really cool maps! I have always been fascinated by maps. Colored map legends many times are unreadable for me, that's how I found out I was color blind.

[@jayhache5609]

Thank you for pronouncing Appalachian Mountains correctly.

[@Scott7137]

That part of Colorado has the most tornadoes in the US due to topography with the Cheyenne Ridge and the Palmer Divide. A lot of those tornadoes are landspouts.

[@pxn748]

What is a lands-out? It is the same as a dust devil?

[@Scott7137]

@@pxn748 Landspouts are non-supercellular tornadoes. They form under a thunderstorm in a different way than conventional tornadoes and are generally weaker. Different than dust devils which form without any thunderstorms.

[@johnsechrest2675]

I love these videos

[@sketchypeoplepdx]

Love this segment! Excellent maps and a fun way to show data!

[@adamjacquez9495]

Great watch as always. Thanks Kyle!

[@Woodshedphilosophy]

11:56 Mount Magazine in Arkansas has an elevation of 2,753’

[@grantrobinson5985]

I was curious about that too. Arkansas actually has about 8 peaks all higher than Eagle Mountain despite the state being entirely within the lower elevation zone.

[@BS-vx8dg]

Ahhh, thanks for that. I just wrote a note on how much I liked the Minnesota high point map, but yes, or course you're right. Damn.

[@dennisrounds1996]

The tornado top 6 is Beautifully Done

[@outbackwack368]

I picked out that tornado trajectory map as soon as I saw it... very cool... good call! Thanks!

[@izanhoward7742]

Winner Hazel should take that map and map a tornado alley focused stitching of her data. Really cool mappings!

[@ArunLal-d6s]

Kyle pops up, and I stop everything and watch!

[@ruthlessgoat3702]

Yes, Ft. Colliins and Loveland are in Larimer Co. Tornadoes are pretty rare in these two cities, but very prevalent when you get away from the mountains into the E. Colorado plains.

[@jamwest3146]

Great content presented well. Thx Geography King!

[@LandryTriesItOut]

I've been waiting for another one of these!

[@michael7054]

Great video! I really enjoyed watching this!

[@robertsykes3242]

Thanks Kyle. Bought a great map ur recommendation. Upper Peninsula Mi. Enjoy ur videos

[@garrettgarcia2592]

1:43 "All the other states have at least two [counties on the list]" Huh? Arizona, Delaware, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Alaska, and Hawaii all have zero. Rhode Island and Massachusetts only have one.

[@jetfan925]

Can you take New Hampshire add one please?

[@qwaszx55564]

I love the new intro graphics. Very Nice.

[@thomasbrodowicz944]

on the eagle mountain map the area between the two lines is not all low elevation than eagle mountain, the Ouachitas and Ozarks have higher elevations which are between the lines

[@ASMR-Arboretum]

I love this series. It's awesome.

[@Rancid-Jane]

10:05 Wheat has become a minor crop in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. True before the 1970's but now many other, higher value, crops have surpassed wheat in acreage.

[@scottbogfoot]

2:19 one little flag of Newfoundland, but its not on the legend. Can you do a video all about Newfoundland maps and geography over all?

[@kevintiernan3517]

Super cool episode, love it!!

[@jim9930]

Map 5 (17:30) Th red outbreak from West Virginia through western Pennsylvania/eastern Ohio and those three purple counties are the May 31, 1985 line of severe storms that stretched all the way across lake Erie into Canada. About 25 violent storms with F4's and one F5. I was in the Niles, Ohio - Wheatland, PA F5 tornado... no fun. 😎

[@Peachymochi86]

Hey King! Love your videos for a while now. Was hoping you could tell me where you got that awesome relief/topographic map of SC in the bottom right of the screen there… I love how it shows the contrast of the higher parts of the state on the left to the coastline/sea level with that big shadow (as it doesn’t continue into the other state) … wondering if they have one for my state. Can you comment a link or anything for me? Thanks!!!

[@GeographyKing]

It's from the website of my sponsor Muir Way. There's a link to the website in the description of the video. They have some really great maps on their site.

[@finegoldstones]

I love the channel Kyle, long time supporter. Maybe its for that reason that I feel this way, but I really miss the old intro!!

[@skipast75]

Eagle Mountain at 2301 feet is 12.5 miles inland from Lake Superior at 600 feet. In that general vicinity the Sawtooth mountains follow the north shore and rise to over 1900 ft in elevation. They stand 1300 ft tall over Lake Superior…. Just over the boarder near Thunder Bay is The Sleeping Giant that stands 1200 ft, nearly vertical, above Superior and the Superior Highlands continue on all the way across the north side of the Lake. Old Woman Bay has a 700 ft tall cliff that looks like the Oregon coast. So many unknown gems around Lake Superior…..

[@maluorno]

next time you're heading north from minnesota. take the route on the east side of Lake of the Woods . Along Ontario Hwy 71 heading North, watch the landscape change from prairie to canadian shield before your eyes. I've made the trip a million times over the years, always have geeked out over the geography, history and geology. Not much french presence, but there's a place called Finland....lol

[@jay5729]

I like the new intro!

[@hobog]

So thankful for maps made by the dictator of Canada

[@dictatorofcanada4238]

Thank you!

[@AsianInvasion88766]

I like that new intro

[@Maxville2]

Sick new intro clip!

[@sneakdroids]

Cool maps. I have an amateurish interest in geography, and always wondered how these type of interesting maps are created. Are there any software programs that are used to create specialized maps such as these? Or does one have to learn some programming language and use a specific package or library?

[@tweezerjam]

First walk around

[@coveringcambria]

Thank you

[@posteroonie]

Hazel's map has a wonderful artistic quality. I thought Kyle would pick it, because I did. :)

[@Austin6403]

Thank you to everyone making these maps. Kyle, are you subscribed to r/MapPorn?

[@ItsEverythingElse]

As green is my favorite color, i super like your green shirt and green walls :)

[@randyalanko4903]

I thought the winner was best! Impressive group of maps.

[@simplebutpowerful]

Excellent installment as always! How about a theme for the next version: election related maps? It’ll be about the right time

[@FriscoKittens]

Hazels map was my pick too!

[@robthetraveler1099]

11:46 It's not accurate that everywhere in between the two curved north-south lines is below 2300 feet. That area includes the Ozarks in eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas, and I know those go over 2500 feet.

[@gingermany6223]

Mount Magazine in AK is taller than Eagle Mountain MN

[@BS-vx8dg]

@@gingermany6223 Your comment proves to me that the US Postal Service really screwed up on many of the US state abbreviations. *AK* should indeed have been "Arkansas", but the idiots used AK for Alaska. Also AB should be Alabama; looking at AL one's initial reaction could be (and has been) that it was Alaska MC should be Michigan; looking at MI one's intial reaction could be Minnesota NB should be Nebraska, and it originally was, but when Canada came into the system, NB was given to New Brunswick.

[@verde7595]

@@BS-vx8dg It's first+second unless that's taken, then it's first+last, unless interference occurs. Alaska is AK because AA is stupid and AL was in use. Arizona is AZ because AA is stupid and AR was in use. Minnesota is MN because MA was in use and MI was in use, and saying "MN" out loud is literally the first part of the word Minnesota. Same with Mississippi's "MS". Nebraska is NE because it's first+second first and foremost.

[@BS-vx8dg]

Before replying, I want to know what you mean when you say, _Alaska is AK because AA is stupid and AL _*_was in use_*_ and Arizona is AZ because AA is stupid and AR _*_was in use_* What do you specifically do you mean when you say that AL and AR were "in use"?

[@chucknorris477]

I can’t believe you got Justin Trudeau to submit a couple maps.

[@travisfinucane]

Colors in map 4 should have been tornados / sq mi. Physically large counties like San Bernardino in southern CA show up, even though tornados are pretty rare out there. And Colorado definitely gets tornados, but their county size makes it look more common than they actually are.

[@Luhvene]

I made that map, and that’s definitely a good point. This was my first attempt at making a map like this, plus I’m colorblind, but I’ll see if I could make that work. Should be pretty straightforward to code up

[@travisfinucane]

@@Luhvene Very cool map, and a useful tool.

[@tiberiusG]

3:40 the county I grew up in is so proportionally large that the neighborhood I grew up in could be resolved if it were a satellite image. Edit: So could individual buildings in Midtown Manhattan and Battery Park. Another edit: 7:10 ... I believe that purple streak from SE Missouri to Indiana was caused by a single tornado. The Tri-State Tornado of 1925. It was the longest-track and deadliest tornado in US history.

[@NDHFilms]

Howdy, I’m early this time!

[@Scottrick]

GG Hazel

[@silliaek]

Is the interactive tornado map posted online?

[@BS-vx8dg]

I love a beautiful map, and many of these really, really attractive. And yet my favorite was *not* a pretty map after all. The Eagle Mountain map, which was neither pretty or even intuitive (without an explanation, I doubt one person in a thousand would have figured out what it showed) was hands down the most fascinating. (Probably an explanation of the concept of "prominence" would have been appropriate, as well.) *Edit* : Unfortunately, as others have pointed out in the comments, a significant error in this map may be the inclusion of the Ozarks in the area ostensibly lower than Minnesota's high point. I'd be interested in the map maker's response to that.

[@williammontgrain6544]

Not all the other states but California have more than one counties with one of those those common names. Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, and Hawaii, have none, while New Jersey and Rhode Island also only have one.

[@derekelliott6098]

NE Ohio (SE of Cleveland) just had a nasty short tornado. ~500K without power for a week from Sandusky to PA to Columbus. Huge outage. I live right beside 3 RR crossings, so that got power back same day.

[@BeaverThingify]

Yep. 5 tornadoes that night, though all of them EF1. I lost power for 3 nights but heard some lost it for a week.

[@derekelliott6098]

@@BeaverThingify Im in Mentor. Nearest was in Euclid.

[@BeaverThingify]

@@derekelliott6098 I'm in Geauga. The nearest one to me was about 10 miles. I work outdoors in the woods and the destruction around here was pretty unbelievable, lots of large healthy trees downed. The strange thing about all of it was how brief the storm was, maybe only lasted 15-20 minutes.

[@tristanduff9038]

It may be my computer, but it seems like the first map missed Warren County NJ. The color is also similar, which may be the issue.

[@BoredSquirell]

10:00 oh, wheat, they were growing wheat in Canada. I misheard in the first moment 😂

[@lilflo36]

That first map is interesting as the ONLY states that done have any of those county names are unsurprisingly Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii and then more surprising is Connecticut and Delaware!

[@BS-vx8dg]

Actually, I would regard the exclusion of Connecticut and Delaware as *_less_* surprising. As Kyle pointed out, many of the most common names are of Founding Fathers. As part of the original 13 colonies, their counties were established long ago. Delaware's three counties were all named prior to the American Revolution, as were six of Connecticut's eight counties. The two Connecticut counties established after US independence were established in 1785, four years before Washington became the first President. Indeed, most of these counties were established in the 1600s, before Washington and Franklin were born.

[@pimacanyon6208]

Dictator of Canada! I wouldn't have guessed that Trudeau is a map maker.

[@dictatorofcanada4238]

That's my gaming username, I've gotten that quite a few times lol

[@pimacanyon6208]

@@dictatorofcanada4238 eh, I wouldn't have guessed Trudeau was into gaming either! ;-)

[@lonfowler9843]

Johnson County, Texas🖐

[@Shattuckus]

Check out Anton Thomas "Wide World" map (if you haven't already).

[@jasonarthurs3885]

I know 70% of these county names from Cops episodes.

[@butter7734]

What country is the flag that is a red volcano on a blue background with yellow streaks coming from the top of the volcano? I'm not familiar with that one.

[@JramLisztfan]

Réunion island - it’s a French overseas department

[@ryklatortuga4146]

Map Man Map Man Map Map Map Man

[@jimgreen5788]

Since Hawaii and Alaska are a separate breed, I notice that none of the names there made the cut, since their names are all 1 of a kind, and if PR were a state, it would be in the same boat.

[@ItsEverythingElse]

Not sure tornado reporting depends on people reporting them. Isn't it all radar-based these days? Certainly people reporting is not going to identify tornadoes by severity.

[@Yormsane]

5:20 NE Colorado seems to be establishing its own Tornado Alley in recent years.

[@verde7595]

My friend outside Denver had never seen, like, a REAL tornado until just the past year or so. He was like "that shit scary how do you do it?" I've spent most my life in the Midwest and South.

[@young_nomad_]

King 🙏

[@jerrytwolanes4659]

Map 4....how about a legend? What do the colors represent?

[@twest344]

Map 9 looks a lot like a map of North America during the Cretaceous period, only everything within the red lines was under water.

[@TanksYouVeryMuch]

I’d love to watch a video of Geo King saying where all he has been.

[@dbaker3751]

I didn't see any counties in Arizona marked.

[@jasonarthurs3885]

@2:55; issue with "map" presented...how can the circle representing Indians emigrating to B.C. Canada be larger than the circle representing Indians emigrating to Canada?

[@dictatorofcanada4238]

@@jasonarthurs3885 I think the circles are sized by the percentage of the population that is Indian, not the total number.

[@cptnofgravytrain]

The first mapmaker missed West and East Carroll Parishes in the northeast corner of Louisiana

[@jackberquist321]

That’s very nice of Trudeau to send in 2 different maps of Manitoba!

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

The Ukrainians didn’t just randomly come to Canada. The federal government recognized that the rich chernozem soil in Western Canada strongly resembled that of Ukraine, and set out to recruit settlers from that area.

[@dictatorofcanada4238]

@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co Correct. The Canadian government tried to recruit in countries where they thought people would make good farmers, and avoided recruiting in places where they thought they would flock to cities instead (Southern Europe, Balkans, Asia)

[@BS-vx8dg]

That makes sense! Thanks for pointing it out.

[@tatethatcher4440]

AYY my grandpa has the same globe as you Kyle

[@anishraja9655]

Four seconds ago? No way.

[@jacobk7364]

2:34 I’d assume the reason those middle eastern countries (UAE, Qatar) have such a high % of Indian immigrants as a percentage of their population is due to the high number of Indian migrant construction workers there for the construction boom. A lot of those workers for the World Cup in Qatar were Indian and Bangladeshi workers if I remember correctly. Really interesting map tho

[@grokeffer6226]

👍👍👍

[@im2old4this2]

I don't see any counties in Arizona, Hawaii, or Alaska with those names

[@andrewmiller4573]

Justin Trudeau is a map maker for Canada? Who knew?

[@windowstudios45]

1:48 Arizona, Alaska Hawaii, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Delaware:

[@CBECK73]

1824 i believe it was spain and not mexico.

[@Minnesconi]

texas has 254 counties and the average is 62 per state. california 58, ny 62, fl 67...wth?

[@Nashvillain10SE]

9:27 Justin Trudeau sent in these maps!