All you need in life is a color picker willing to expose you to the unbounded madness we call color vision.

me, absolutely clueless: "I want a color just like this one, but in red" color picker: Fuck you think you are, a Mantis Shrimp? Don't talk to me again until you can afford a wide gamut monitor.

Mea culpa! I forgot an element in the blazon:

Argent, a cat sable rampant contourné guardant, holding a cat toy gules in its mouth.

Phew. That's better. :)

Argent, a cat sable rampant contourné, holding a cat toy gules in its mouth.

Argent, a cat sable rampant contourné, holding a cat toy gules in its mouth.

System of German and French Trenches in 1917 during WWI

The Roman Empire across the centuries

Map of Visigothic Kingdom, 586-711.

Where NYC neighborhoods start and end, according to NYC residents.

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decolonial atlas project releases indigenous place names of turtle island map

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This map was a collaborative endeavor involving hundreds of Indigenous elders and language-keepers across the continent to accurately document place names for major cities and historical sites. The process of consultation and research for the map was a 9-year effort. In fact, the Decolonial Atlas was started in 2014 initially just to make this map.

Nearly 300 names are compiled here, representing about 150 languages. Some names are from the precolonial era, while others are not quite as old, and in certain cases where the original name has been lost, Indigenous collaborators reconstructed names based on their cultural relationship with that location. Because Indigenous languages are living and dynamic, none of these names are any less “authentic” than others. Embedded in all these names are ancestral words and worldviews. However, some major cities are missing from the map because, as our collaborator DeLesslin George-Warren (Catawba) pointed out, “The fact is that we’ve lost so much in terms of our language and place names. It might be more honest to recognize that loss in the map instead of giving the false notion that the place name still exists for us.”

The names are written as they were shared with us, but may be spelled differently depending on the orthography. Note that some languages, like Lushootseed, do not use capital letters, while others, like Saanich, are written only in capital letters. Most names are spelled in the modern orthographies of their languages, but some, like the Lenape name for Philadelphia, were spelled as recorded by early settlers because it could not be confidently interpreted.

In the context of Indigenous erasure, the global collapse of traditional ecological knowledge, language suppression and revitalization, our hope is that this map will lead to more accurate cultural representation and recognition of Indigenous sovereignty."

the pdf and png files for the map are available for download under a creative commons license.

Few interesting coats of arms of Slovak towns and villages

by u/mancko28

Map of Constantinople in 1422 by Cristoforo Buondelmonti

by @vintagemapstore

A map of every pub in the UK.

Map of Roman Britain taken from Encyclopædia Britannica’s 14th edition.

Mapping the ‘migration’ of the PIE phoneme *gʷ across the IPA table, in descendants of the word *gʷḗn. Descendant languages changed it to at least 16 different sounds, and none of them preserved the original /gʷ/

German States, Provinces and Districts

World Infrastructure Map

by Peter Atwood