 Reminder: #fridaygeotrivia later today, here on mastodon. The question will be posted at 18:00 Berlin time / 5pm UK / 12 noon US east coast time. Rules, prizes, past questions are all over on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-july-2023 π βοΈ The end of the month is almost here, which means ... #fridaygeotrivia - our geo trivia game played here on mastodon on the final Friday of the month. We will play ποΈ Fri. 28th at 18:00 Berlin π©πͺ time, 5pm London π¬π§, 12 noon New York πΊπΈ. Who will take home the bragging rights and the coveted π emoji trophy? Full details on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-july-2023 As always you can/should practice on past questions to get warmed up for #fridaygeotrivia https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/fridaygeotrivia See you Friday! This week in #geoweirdness rather than focusing on a specific county or territory we thought we'd post a bit about confusing places in general. These come up a lot in geocoding. What exactly do we mean? People often have a perception of a place that doesnβt match the true geographic reality. Hereβs a basic example, saying "the United States" πΊπΈ but meaning only the contiguous US 1/n 2/ One of the best βconfusingβ countries is France π«π·. Many peopleβs perception of France is just European or βMetropolitanβ France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_France But France is much more than that, as covered in our thread back in February: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/109930044904649272 Most of the questions we get about geocoding are related to land, but of course most of the world is covered by water πππβ΅π This week in #geoweirdness let's consider the world's oceans 1/n 2/ There are some fun water based locations. For example "Point Nemo" (-48.876667, -123.393333) The point on Earth farthest from land In this week's #geoweirdness thread we leave Europe and turn our attention southward to ... Australia π¦πΊ So what's geoweird about Australia? 1/n 2/ Well first, Australia π¦πΊ is very big, twice the size of the EU πͺπΊ , but itβs much bigger than you probably think, with many external islands. Just like last week's country Norway π³π΄, Australia claims territory in Antarctica. |
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