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OpenCage ๐Ÿ‘‰๐ŸŒ

7/ Val d'Aran is also interesting because it is the only region of Catalonia in which the water flows to the Atlantic ๐ŸŒŠ via Toulouse and Bordeaux ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท

curiositatcat.wordpress.com/20

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10 May at 15:36 | Open on en.osm.town
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OpenCage ๐Ÿ‘‰๐ŸŒ

8/ While Aranese is a tiny linguistic island, Catalan is much more widely spoken. It is the official language of Andorra ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ, has official status in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and Valencia, and in the city of Alghero on Sardinia, Italy ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_

There is an active campaign to have Catalan recognized as the 25th official language of the EU
catalaoficial.eu/en/

#geoweirdness
10 May at 15:46 | Open on en.osm.town
OpenCage ๐Ÿ‘‰๐ŸŒ

9/ Best way to practice your geospatial Catalan?

Follow @Raf who posts daily about interesting geospatial stuff in Catalan. Raf is of course a regular Barcelona geomobster

You should also follow the @osmcatala to keep tabs on the OpenStreetMap community in Catalonia

#geoweirdness

10 May at 15:48 | Open on en.osm.town
OpenCage ๐Ÿ‘‰๐ŸŒ

10/ The capital of Catalonia is Barcelona, it is the second largest city in Spain.

Because of its grid system maps of Barcelona typically do NOT have north at the top! Instead maps are aligned so that the city's unique grid system is shown up-down/right-left.

#geoweirdness
10 May at 15:58 | Open on en.osm.town
OpenCage ๐Ÿ‘‰๐ŸŒ

11/ As if that is not confusing enough for the 12 million tourists who visit Barcelona each year (approximately ten times the city's population), residents of the La Salut neighbourhood successfully campaigned to have the ๐ŸšŒ ๐Ÿš 116 bus route removed from Google and Apple Maps to battle overcrowding caused by tourists trying to visit the world-famous Park Gรผell, designed by legendary architect Antoni Gaudi.

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr

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11/ As if that is not confusing enough for the 12 million tourists who visit Barcelona each year (approximately ten times the city's population), residents of the La Salut neighbourhood successfully campaigned to have the ๐ŸšŒ ๐Ÿš 116 bus route removed from Google and Apple Maps to battle overcrowding caused by tourists trying to visit the world-famous Park Gรผell, designed by legendary architect Antoni Gaudi.
10 May at 16:01 | Open on en.osm.town
OpenCage ๐Ÿ‘‰๐ŸŒ replied to OpenCage

12/ We'll leave our look at Catalan #geoweirdness there, thanks for reading and sharing ๐Ÿ™ What did we miss?

We hope you can join us at Geomob Barcelona #geomobbcn in a few weeks.

Until then we have more threads about specific countries, border disputes, geocoding, etc over on our blog: blog.opencagedata.com/geothrea

If you enjoyed our look at Catalonia, you may also appreciate our threads about:

Spain ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ en.osm.town/@opencage/11056498
and
France ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท en.osm.town/@opencage/10993004

12/ We'll leave our look at Catalan #geoweirdness there, thanks for reading and sharing ๐Ÿ™ What did we miss?

We hope you can join us at Geomob Barcelona #geomobbcn in a few weeks.

Until then we have more threads about specific countries, border disputes, geocoding, etc over on our blog: blog.opencagedata.com/geothrea
10 May at 16:07 | Open on en.osm.town
OpenCage ๐Ÿ‘‰๐ŸŒ replied to OpenCage

Wait! Forgot to post about one of the most delightful #geoweirdness things in Catalonia.

In the Catalan town of Badia del Vallรจs not far from Barcelona the street layout is actually a map of Iberia

openstreetmap.org/#map=17/41.5
10 May at 16:47 | Open on en.osm.town
Colm Donoghue

@opencage how is the Val dAran not on the north of the Pyrenees like Llivia?

10 May at 16:14 | Open on mastodon.ie
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