Map created by EleanorLutzThe map above shows the orbital paths of about 18,000 asteroids, comets, and planets in the solar system, everything larger than 10km in diameter is included.

More about them:

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Map created by UniveroThe map above compares the Neo-Tokyo’s artificial islands in the Akira anime and Manga series with those of the real life Tokyo Bay in 2019.

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I’m personally a big fan of AI and frequently use it to analysis data, transcribe and translate and even help write map explainers.

But one thing AI still can’t seem to do is make good (or accurate) maps from scratch as the following 20 examples all show.

Most of the following maps come from @ChatgptLunatics aka AI being dumb (follow them for more AI related humour).

And while I didn’t personally create any of the maps below (or more accurately enter the prompts that made them), they very much reflect my own experience using AI to try and create maps.

Techo Bros vs Actual AI

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Map created by QS SuppliesThe map above shows which countries use bidets the most. Italy was by far the winner with over three-quarters of hotels having them. Here is more data by country, US state and cities.

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The video above shows 24 hours worth of flights between Europe and the US from a pre-pandemic 2018.

You can very clearly see the jet stream effects with almost all the flights to Europe following the jet stream and those to the United States either going north or south of it.

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Canada’s Hudson Bay is the world’s second largest Bay after the Bay of Bengal.

It is 1,230,000 km² (470,000 sq mi) about the same size as South Africa or almost twice the size of Texas.

But given it’s unique shape, I wondered what countries and/or US states you could fit inside it.

So here below is a bit of a random selection of places that I found fit inside.

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Maps created by UrbanRail.NetWith Donald Trump saying people should evacuate Tehran, I thought it might be interesting to compare its Metro system to a similar sized US city.

Before creating the map above I had no real sense just how many people lived in Tehran, but it turns out it’s just slightly smaller than the Greater Los Angeles Area. A lot more than I originally thought!

So here’s how the systems stack up:

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The Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality (OCSE) is a fictional group featured in the television series The West Wing (as seen above).

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Map from Simpsons WikiRand McNally is a well-known American map making and publishing company (due in no small part to it’s appearance in an iconic Simpson’s scene).

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