 ๐จ Time for #fridaygeotrivia ๐จ Name countries (or parts of countries) that use the postal system of other countries. An example: Liechtenstein ๐ฑ๐ฎ uses the Swiss ๐จ๐ญ postal system. As always you need the emoji flag and #fridaygeotrivia hashtag for full points. Rules/Prizes/etc on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-july-2023 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 ๐ โ๏ธ 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 ๐๏ธ Fri. 28th at 18:00 Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช time, 5pm London ๐ฌ๐ง, 12 noon New York ๐บ๐ธ. Who will take home the bragging rights and the coveted ๐ 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 doesnโt match the true geographic reality. Hereโs a basic example, saying "the United States" ๐บ๐ธ but meaning only the contiguous US 1/n 2/ One of the best โconfusingโ countries is France ๐ซ๐ท. Many peopleโs perception of France is just European or โMetropolitanโ 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 ๐๐๐โต๐ 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 ๐ฆ๐บ So what's geoweird about Australia? 1/n 2/ Well first, Australia ๐ฆ๐บ is very big, twice the size of the EU ๐ช๐บ , but itโs much bigger than you probably think, with many external islands. Just like last week's country Norway ๐ณ๐ด, Australia claims territory in Antarctica. |
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