;)

It was Countries/Associations where at least one club, who is located in the capital, is in the national premier league. Hertha Berlin just got relegated into the Zweite Bundesliga which makes Germany the only country that doesn't have a big Football club from the capital.

Too gimmicky? I thought it was silly ;), but I don't want to keep this thread slowed down ;)

(If you are asking yourself, for Belgium, Anderlecht is a suburb of Brussels, but a community on their own. But it is still in Brussels, I'd guess.

Wales on the other hand has Cardiff something playing with the English leagues, so it's a bit of a cheat. I do believe there's a Carffian (?) club in the first Welsh league, I'd guess ;))

Most people don't watch the German league. I knew Berlin is grossly under represented, but I never knew that it was not represented until now. :wow:

Sorry if it was not open floor:

http://i.imgur.com/RKMbP.jpg

Really, Strijder sounds like a Dutch Football Player. I'm probably thinking of Snijder though


I have no clue, I don't know anything about football :p Dutch is right though ( Flemish, actually (Belgian)).
Strijder shouldn't be allowed online because he doesn't know football. Those people should be confined so that the disease won't spread.


Look into my eyes... you know nothing about football... nothing...
(If you are asking yourself, for Belgium, Anderlecht is a suburb of Brussels, but a community on their own. But it is still in Brussels, I'd guess.

(If you are asking yourself, for Belgium, Anderlecht is a suburb of Brussels, but a community on their own. But it is still in Brussels, I'd guess.


Yes, Anderlecht is a part of Brussels. One of the best (here in Belgium, that still means awful) Belgian football clubs is from there.

Sorry if it was not open floor:

http://i.imgur.com/RKMbP.jpg

If America would be 'fat', I'd say obesitas...
So I'll say amount of anorexia patients.

Sorry if it was not open floor:

http://i.imgur.com/RKMbP.jpg

Social spending per head?

Social spending per head?

http://www.google.be/imgres?hl=nl&gbv=2&biw=1024&bih=677&tbm=isch&tbnid=zbMBzeJQm0a0aM:&imgrefurl=http://www.exposzure.com/&docid=pP9BTyqSukl0aM&imgurl=http://www.exposzure.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/usa-spending-per-person.png&w=640&h=462&ei=TvK7T9zDIs_e8QP23dDOCg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=232&sig=114696802955071625316&page=1&tbnh=146&tbnw=209&start=0&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:72&tx=115&ty=33

Social spending per head?

no, it is not a policy. :)

Does it have to do with food? Sports?
Also, Sri Lanka is rather large. Interesting...

http://www.google.be/imgres?hl=nl&gbv=2&biw=1024&bih=677&tbm=isch&tbnid=zbMBzeJQm0a0aM:&imgrefurl=http://www.exposzure.com/&docid=pP9BTyqSukl0aM&imgurl=http://www.exposzure.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/usa-spending-per-person.png&w=640&h=462&ei=TvK7T9zDIs_e8QP23dDOCg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=232&sig=114696802955071625316&page=1&tbnh=146&tbnw=209&start=0&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:72&tx=115&ty=33

That probably lumps in more than social spending, though.

No, and it is not about obesity either...

That probably lumps in more than social spending, though.

Yes, probably.
Even then, skinny Scandinavia is a bit strange.
Anything to do with economy?

Not directly, no

Btw i should note it is a map of around the change of the Millenium (2000). Not sure if it can be traced that way so i am not providing the actual date. However i doubt things have really changed since then (at least for the most part).

And here is the map again:

http://i.imgur.com/RKMbP.jpg

Is it about money?

Again not directly. You should not really focus on money, although it is about an item which is sold.

Amount of books on WO1/2 sold?

Close enough, amount of books published in 1999 :)

Close enough, amount of books published in 1999 :)

Oh, so do I get it?
If I don't post a map within 24 hours, it's open floor. I have a lot of work and certainly can't post one now :p

http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=321811&stc=1&d=1337720213

Here's the new one.

It's a little outdated: it's about something between 2004-2007.

Does it have to do with fishing?

This one looks very tropical, so malaria?

Fishing

Pretty far off.

This one looks very tropical, so malaria?


Malaria is even farther off, tropical is more or less spot on (I wouldn't use tropical in describing what it is, but tropical climate definitely influences the colours of the countries).

sugar plantations?

Clothing? Beach resorts?

Coffee production?

I… don't think Siberia produces coffee.

Prevalence of mosquitoes?

Again, in Siberia?

Siberian summers tend to have a lot of mosquitoes around, presumably with pools of stagnant water from melted ice there.

The prominence of Brazil and New Guinea make me think languages, but I don't know what that has to do with the tropics specifically.

If it had to do with number of languages, I would expect Nigeria to be much bigger.

How do the colors of the countries relate to their sizes? Is it the same thing or are they quasi-independent?

Ok, maybe saying it had directly to do with the tropics was a bit exaggerated. As you can see, Siberia also is not that small, and it's climate kind of has to do with it too.

It's the same thing, Silv Something.


Prevalence of mosquitoes?


This one gets closer than all the others so far posted.

:bump:

Something to do with biomes, I'll hazard.

Something to do with biomes, I'll hazard.

Kind of! You are getting near.

Red was representing 80 and more, as a hint.

Biodiversity? Species and/or their extintion risk?

Species
I'll give it to you, it's the amount of amphibians discovered between 2003 and 2007.

Yay!

Well, I did this in a hurry. An easy one.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XKjW123DaSA/T8F3bgDNPyI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/e9qiP53MUVk/s2000/puzzle.jpg

Any reason for all the highlighted countries (except for the islands) to be contiguous? Or is it just a coincidence?

Erm, not really, not as a general rule. I didn't notice they formed a continuum until I'd finished painting it.

Nuclear power?

Pffft, no.

High suicide rate?

Not even close.

Randomly coloured countries.

Could be cities with a population of over, say, 1 million?

No and no.

Oh. Whoops, and Estonia and Iceland are coloured too.

Geothermal power?

Amount of happy people?

If it's something with a sport (nations present at tourney x), it needs to be one where both the Spanish and the Dutch are bad...

btw. that map is strange as everything outside the geographic borders of Europe is greyed out, thereby for example dividing the great nation of Kazakhstan. That's coincidence, right?

Yes, I just grabbed the nearest one I could find, an SVG map of Europe which had the non-European parts grayed out. So Greenland (part of Denmark) I painted red but the Asian part of Russia wasn't. Parts of the Caucasus are weirded out as well. :undecide:
Geothermal power?Amount of happy people?No and no.

I really didn't think I'd make this one so difficult!

Does it have to do with, uh, Europe?

An hint would be nice.

Sorry, been less online than usual. It does have to do with Europe because it's a European map.

It's a historical category.

Belligerents in some war or another? (Although I can't think of any wars with anything close to that particular set of countries...)

Seeing Italy, France and Ukraine, i guess it's about Vikings. Countries where Vikings/Normans were in power (for a part)?

Looks right. Or their presence.

No Vikings in Finland? Also Latvia and Lithuania would have to be red, Turkey probably as well... to display such a thing, a map without modern national borders would make a lot more sense...

countries with numbered republics works for France, Germany, Italy, Poland, etc., but England, Denmark etc. ? I do have trouble connecting the big countries with the little ones (Estonia, Ireland and Iceland seem particularly disconnected).

I guess I am going to read up on how Estonia differs from the other Baltics AND from Finland. Estonia really seems to be the outlier here.

Countries that have been both monarchies and republics?

Countries that have been both monarchies and republics?

The Scandinavian countries have never been republics, and Spain has. So no.

Yay!

Well, I did this in a hurry. An easy one.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XKjW123DaSA/T8F3bgDNPyI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/e9qiP53MUVk/s2000/puzzle.jpg

For reference on this page.

If it's a historical category, are we to assume that all of the colored states existed in the referenced time period? Successor states / parts of a larger state don't seem to count because Estonia is colored, while the other Baltic states aren't, although afaik they all have been independent at the same time.

Didn't see last page, blasted CFC navigation tools.
Belligerents in some war or another? (Although I can't think of any wars with anything close to that particular set of countries...)
Oh, close!
Seeing Italy, France and Ukraine, i guess it's about Vikings. Countries where Vikings/Normans were in power (for a part)?Yes indeed! As close as possible to this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Viking_Expansion.svg/1000px-Viking_Expansion.svg.png
No Vikings in Finland? Also Latvia and Lithuania would have to be red, Turkey probably as well... to display such a thing, a map without modern national borders would make a lot more sense...

countries with numbered republics works for France, Germany, Italy, Poland, etc., but England, Denmark etc. ? I do have trouble connecting the big countries with the little ones (Estonia, Ireland and Iceland seem particularly disconnected).

I guess I am going to read up on how Estonia differs from the other Baltics AND from Finland. Estonia really seems to be the outlier here.
The Vikings raided Finland but the Swedes only started settling/conquering it after the Viking age was past.
Turkey, no, the Vikings went there but were never in power, they were Mercs.
I wasn't sure about settlements in LatviaLithuania so I left well alone -and forgot to rectify.
Countries that have been both monarchies and republics?
The Scandinavian countries have never been republics, and Spain has. So no.
Ingerland was a republic commonwealth too.
If it's a historical category, are we to assume that all of the colored states existed in the referenced time period? Successor states / parts of a larger state don't seem to count because Estonia is colored, while the other Baltic states aren't, although afaik they all have been independent at the same time.
See above. It was present-day states that had Viking/norse rulers/domain.

Civ-addicted, off you go!

Civ-addicted, off you go!
Aha, that's what you have to do to make the challenge:mischief:

Well, had to come up with something lame:http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=322347&stc=1&d=1338426524Had to make it in a rush, so mea culpa for little errors.

Is it political?

Are the greens and the yellow some sort of combination?

Nato/navo?

Are the greens and the yellow some sort of combination?No, they are their own category.Is it political?Nato/navo?Nothing political in nature.

...so I'm not the only one who doesn't even have a wild guess?

Well, Hong Kong has a different colour than China which means it must be a dataset that collects it separately. Might have something to do with the PISA Studies which is based on OECD. But there is more countries coloured than there are OECD members. So it might not be a sociological survey after all...

After looking at the map again, I don't think it's an index like Happiness, Values or something like that as much of Africa has the same values as the Northern World / (the West). So I guess they key is the differences between culturally similar countries:

What's the difference between China and Hong Kong.
Why is Hungary/Armenia/Nepal red, while the rest of Eastern Europe/Caucasus/East Asia is blue?
What does Lithuania have more in common with Belarus and Poland than with the other Baltics?
Portugal and its colonies (Brazil, Angola, Mocambique, Cape Verdes) are all blue, which is different from the rest of the European countries.
What makes Thailand special?
And why is Djibouti the only country with no data (even freaking Somalia has). That's probably an oversight ;)

Is it some sort of temporal scale? (Every colour is a different decade)?

Well, Hong Kong has a different colour than China which means it must be a dataset that collects it separately. Might have something to do with the PISA Studies which is based on OECD. But there is more countries coloured than there are OECD members. So it might not be a sociological survey after all...

After looking at the map again, I don't think it's an index like Happiness, Values or something like that as much of Africa has the same values as the Northern World / (the West). So I guess they key is the differences between culturally similar countries:

What's the difference between China and Hong Kong.
Why is Hungary/Armenia/Nepal red, while the rest of Eastern Europe/Caucasus/East Asia is blue?
What does Lithuania have more in common with Belarus and Poland than with the other Baltics?
Portugal and its colonies (Brazil, Angola, Mocambique, Cape Verdes) are all blue, which is different from the rest of the European countries.
What makes Thailand special?
And why is Djibouti the only country with no data (even freaking Somalia has). That's probably an oversight ;)

Is it some sort of temporal scale? (Every colour is a different decade)?
Djibouti could be both blue and red, but it was a mistake that i didn't color it.
The colors are categories.
...so I'm not the only one who doesn't even have a wild guess?Okay, to speed it up a little, a clue: After i made this map i thought that Brazil at least puts you on the right track.

The colors are categories.

What else could they be? It's normal that a map is coloured by categories.

Are you trying to say that it's not a range (e.g. from 0-100 % where 0-20 % is one colour, the next 20 are another)?

You also didn't answer me if it's a temporal scale which I take to mean it's not?

Okay, to speed it up a little, a clue: After i made this map i thought that Brazil at least puts you on the right track.

That's not really helpful... After all I already pointed out that the "Portuguese" Colonies are all blue. I'm more curious why Hong Kong is a different colour from China. Something with independence? But it's not political, right?

What else could they be? It's normal that a map is coloured by categories.

Are you trying to say that it's not a range (e.g. from 0-100 % where 0-20 % is one colour, the next 20 are another)?

You also didn't answer me if it's a temporal scale which I take to mean it's not?
It's not a range or temporal, that's what i'm trying to say.That's not really helpful... After all I already pointed out that the "Portuguese" Colonies are all blue. I'm more curious why Hong Kong is a different colour from China. Something with independence? But it's not political, right?Not political or independence, but history is a part of it.
Don't concentrate too much on Hong Kong, it propably would have been better too make it both blue and red, but you wouldn't have spotted it on the map anyway.

Bump to bring this back. It's fun, guys!

http://i.imgur.com/wBQ4O.png

Russia is high. Must be communism or vodka. I'm going with vodka.


Does grey mean no data or that "it" is not present in this country?

Not debt, is it? I'm pretty sure that's wrong because of how many countries have no colour, but they could be 'no data' countries, I guess.

"It" is present in every country, so grey is no data. I'm somewhat surprised there's no data for France.

It is not related to debt, no.

Something to do with pollution?

Education?

Something to do with pollution?

In a round about way.

Education?

That's one of the reasons western countries are lower on this list.

I got this. Is it some sort of STD?

I got this. Is it some sort of STD?

Right line of thought, but no.

Drug use?

Drug use?

Getting much closer.

Heroin addiction?

Smoking

Drug production?

Smoking

Specifically, cigarettes / year.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/10/19/who-smokes-most-a-surprising-map-of-smoking-rates-by-country/

Greece gave it away... :mischief:

Chew on this. Red indicates higher whilst gray indicates lower.

http://i.imgur.com/eI063.png

Urban population?

Population of State Capitals?

State economies?

Number of electric vehicles?

Marijuana.

Drink driving. Gang membership. Billboard advertising. States visited by the Pope. Number of taps in a house. People confessing to milk addiction. Public lending libraries.

Urban population?

Texas less than New Hampshire? :)

Population of State Capitals?

Concord, NH more than Austin, TX? :)

State economies?

Texas less than New Hampshire? :)

Number of electric vehicles?

Can't think of a retort here, but it's not it either.

Marijuana.

I bet you're all about that North Carolina marijuana, eh? :mischief: But no.

Drink driving. Gang membership. Billboard advertising. States visited by the Pope. Number of taps in a house. People confessing to milk addiction. Public lending libraries.

Not even drunk driving.

Not gangs.

Not billboards.

Not states visited by the pope (why would he visit the wasteland of Arkansas?).

Not taps in a house.

Now you're not even trying.

Not libraries.

Hints!

Households with more than two pets. People who prefer white cheese over yellow cheese (I heard about a scientific paper about this very subject on the radio yesterday). People with car pets, i.e. pets for their cars, rather than carpets for their houses. People attending evening classes in basketry. People with criminal records. Second marriages. Adult literacy. Taste in soft furnishings. Air-conditioning. Ability to swim. Ability to smile and whistle at the same time.

Am I getting warm?

Loans? Depression?

Nah nah.

It's about a social issue.

What isn't about a social issue?

I don't want it to be too easy.

But a hint about the map: it recognizes only the top instance of something in each state.

The top position held by a woman in the state government.

Eeeeh, very wealthy people? As in, the 1 %.

Or top US universities, perhaps? Or hospitals...

The top position held by a woman in the state government.
Thought that too, but Alaska alone rules it out.

Ohhh, that's true. Abortions, then.

Or top US universities

dingdingdingding

US News and World Report US College Rankings 2012
red: 1 - 10
orange: 11 - 20
yellow: 21 - 30
lime: 31- 40
green: 41 - 50
light blue: 51 - 75
blue: 76 - 100
dark blue: 101 - 125
light purple: 126 - 150
dark purple: 151 - 175
gray: 176+

Yay, it suddenly struck me as I was about to post. :D

Open ground, I'm on my phone and I won't remember once I get home.

Optical should've got it -the last one- with 'drug use', but madviking has an Archer avatar so he wins the thread anyway.

Connecticut UBER ALLES.

Yale is actually suckish imo. It's a lot of hot air. That's actually almost all of the Ivies.

http://i1244.photobucket.com/albums/gg577/strijder20/x.jpg

Ignore the ugly white slabs please, obviously used to hide something.

Pollution now vs. some point in time in the future?

Nuclear/Coal power stations. edit: both active

Nuclear power stations active (red) and historic total.

Nuclear/Coal power stations.

Just nuclear

Just operational and operational plus planned.

Nuclear/Coal power stations.

Hurrah!
The red is active at the moment while grey is planned/closed down.

Oh. I thought the grey was the number of coal power stations, and the red the number of nuclear stations.

Oh. I thought the grey was the number of coal power stations, and the red the number of nuclear stations.

That was my hope of winning this one. that he would see your true intentions.

Oh. Well, you guys can choose who posts the next one. I thought Borachio was just guessing both of them at once.

Well, then I think you were closer. And in any case, I can't find any suitable map to follow on.

You win, JoanK!

Borachio, you go. Herp derp, x-post.

I say we give it to say1988

Yes, why not?

Not great, but quick to keep things rolling.

http://i.imgur.com/PKVKt.gif

No scale, each colour is a distinct category.

Something with groups of people?

Notable regional accents?

Something to do with TV?

Electric-windows in Car ownership.

Religion.

Ethnic composition.

Something with groups of people?
No.

Notable regional accents?
No.

Something to do with TV?
Yes.

Electric-windows in Car ownership.
No.

Religion.
No.

Ethnic composition.
No.

None of the above.

Cable or satellite?

TV networks.

Cable companies.

None of the above.

It is something to do with TV, but you probably won't get to the topic that way. You need a new line of thinking entirely and then link it back to television.

Televangelism?

MLB Blackouts?

Popular sports teams?

Those look like the divisions between major tv markets.

As in, I live in Rolla so I get stations from St Louis and Columbia.

MLB Blackouts?

Yep, MLB blackout areas. I am on my phone right now so I can't post the original, but it is on wikipedia (which I didn't know when I first posted it).

Well I got nothing so anyone can post one

http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=337061&stc=1&d=1354068291

Hint: I want to go here really bad.

Florida?

Close

I knew this one wasn't going to make it very long...

Cape Canaveral!

http://goo.gl/maps/aLJ2e

The keys?

edit: blasted ninja.

;)

Perhaps hobbsyoyo wants to go to the Kennedy Space Center?

Cape Canaveral!

http://goo.gl/maps/aLJ2e

;)

Perhaps hobbsyoyo wants to go to the Kennedy Space Center?

Yes and yes. Damnit I wanted to go with Baikonur Cosmodrome but that map took too much editing.

Tak, if Cape Canaveral is in the Keys then Buenos Aires is in Brazil.
;)

Well, the place is so full of Brazilian tourists that it counts as such.

Well, the place is so full of Brazilian tourists that it counts as such.

Don't worry, before long both Brazil and Argentina will be #52 and #53. You can't stop it.

You might want to consider getting Mexico first.

Don't worry, before long both Brazil and Argentina will be #52 and #53. You can't stop it. Yes I can, Mexico'll absorb you with their illegal immigrints first.

You might want to consider getting Mexico first.
We already ate half of it. The rest we didn't want.
Yes I can, Mexico'll absorb you with their illegal immigrints first.
Yeah they become Americans after a generation, just like the Irish, Poles, Germans, etc. Melting pot man, melting pot.

I don't have any maps, so open floor.

http://i.imgur.com/9j6Xg.png

Don't worry, before long both Brazil and Argentina will be #52 and #53. You can't stop it.

Eventually, we shall own all of the Western Hemisphere, and have 100 states.

Daaaamn, when I saw it I thought "Cape Canaveral" Damn you, timezones!

On TK's... something to do with religion?

Hurrah!
The red is active at the moment while grey is planned/closed down.
Romania has 2 ? :confused:

@tk: ethnicity ? Blue looks dravidian

Agriculture?

Corps per something

Romania has 2 ? :confused:



Yup. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cernavod%C4%83_Nuclear_Power_Plant)

Religion?

Hint: it's a ranking. Blue = (generally) good, red = (generally) bad

Nothing to do with religion, ethnicity, crops, though

Wealth distribution?

I guess it is a bit related to that. A lot of factors influence this ranking.

But no, it's not that.

I would go with political parties predominant, but if it's a Good-Bad ranking, I'm a bit of clueless.

Perhaps percentage of illiteracy/literacy?

English speaking?

Abortion?

Distribution of railroads.
Number of fatal rabies cases.
Coal distribution.
Number of universities.
Number of female students.

Family size / number of children?

Life expectancy, even?

Getting closer.

It's demographics related.

Number of elderly living on the street.

More hospital beds/1000 people?

Packed lunches! It's India. It's got to be packed lunches.

Amount of child deaths?

My guess: religions in India.
Yeah they become Americans after a generation, just like the Irish, Poles, Germans, etc. Melting pot man, melting pot.
Not quite. The Spexicans are a unique case, their homeland's just over the border, and you keep deporting them.
Packed lunches! It's India. It's got to be packed lunches.
Tiffin boxes, you mean, sahib?

My guess: religions in India.

Oh, I can tell you its not. TK already said it has nothing to do with that. :rolleyes:

I posted without doing the usual 'chuck anything that other people haven't mentioned yet' cheap trick.

Not quite. The Spexicans are a unique case, their homeland's just over the border, and you keep deporting them.

2/3 of our hispanic population are of Mexican origin or descent. And they still assimilate just like everyone else. Hence one of the main reasons for the Dream Act.
__________________

Is the map the ratio of boys to girls born?

See, it's tricky. There's the Andaman islands in there too, presumably at the "red" end. What can it be?

And yeah, Uncle T, tiffin boxes.

Not to derail tk, but here's a map in today's WashPo

http://i.imgur.com/VQwuG.png

Yup. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cernavod%C4%83_Nuclear_Power_Plant)
Oh, units !

@TK: It's yearly black plague victims !!!!

Leprosy?

Number of people living in slums? Could also be disease-related.

Most of the red is in that bit in the north where a lot of the big cities are, Delhi, Lucknow etc.

Traffic?

Pollution related deaths. Traffic accidents. Driving under the influence.

Life expectancy? Something sexism related? Gangs? Income distribution?

I think some of those have already been said.

Is the map the ratio of boys to girls born?

Close enough. It is a map of gender ratio in each of the Indian states and territories.

Blue are the ten states with the highest ratio of women/men, and red are those with the lowest (ie more men than women). In Kerala, there are more women then men; significantly more, in fact, due to all the men going off to the Gulf to work.

Yeah! :D


Someone else go, I got nothing.

http://i.imgur.com/W6esP.jpg

I got nuthin', nuthin' at all, but I would like to point out that it looks like a collection of Christmas presents. :crazyeye:

I like that you did the stripes by hand ;) There's certainly some easy way to do that in paint as well, anybody care to tell us? (not meant negatively, just wanted to point out).

So the stripes seem to be a AND category, for the colours I'd guess that they show time (decades) since that would make the most sense with such opposites like France and Indonesia, Spain and Russia, Thailand and Canada.

My first gues was something with Women leadership, but Egypt and Turkey seem to point that towards a no, so I got nothing.

Btw. which caribbean island is that that is orange?

Imports and Exports of various hydrocarbons

The orange island is Barbados, and you're completely off the mark

Are the different colours indicating a scale, or different categories?

It looks kind of like it's to do with sports.

Countries who have gotten close to world cup championships and ones who have one

Are the different colours indicating a scale, or different categories?

They're different categories, although most colors indicate being in more than one category simultaneously.

It looks kind of like it's to do with sports.

Countries who have gotten close to world cup championships and ones who have one

It has nothing to do with sports

It's got me puzzled. I can't even think of stupid guesses.

Something about languages perhaps.

I can't see anything linguistic there, tbh.

Indonesian New Guinea would be a complete mess. In fact, I think they all would, except for Greenland maybe.

Countries with space programs

No, but it has a lot to do with infrastructure, although very large cities (New York, Moscow, etc.) don't tend to have it as much.

So, do we have here 4 base categories (Red, Blue, Yellow, Striped) where Orange has both Red and Yellow, Green has both Blue and Yellow and Purple has both Red and Blue. Is India the "has all three categories" since it does seem to have a different base colour than the other blue states?

I further assume that Grey is no data, since I can't imagine anything "infrastructure"-related that will not be found in the grey areas of Europe, Argentinia and New Zealand. I'm still confused that it's apparently linked to cities, yet its states that are coloured.

Something to with modes of transportation (Metro, International Airport, Harbour, etc. ...) or Tallest Buildings?

Just saw that Italy apparently has another shade of blue, now I'm really confused...

It's to do with modes of transportation, and the base colors are Green, Orange, Yellow and Red Stripes/Burgundy (Which represent the same thing, with Burgundy colored countries being otherwise grey with red stripes). Grey means the country doesn't have anything related to this type of infrastructure at all.

Well, the modes of transport are air, road, rail, sea and inland waterways. But are you talking transport studies here?

Well modes of transport are air, road, rail, sea and inland waterways.But then every country (that's not landlocked) would have all of them.

Yes. I know. I'm plainly not on the right track. Hmmm. Plane. Track.

Yes. I know. I'm plainly not on the right track. Hmmm. Plane. Track.
:lol:

Hmmm....Could it be countries with major highway systems?

Why would that be less common in big cities?

I have no idea...I'm grasping at straws.


Cities with pony rides?

It could be some sort of width-of-railway-tracks which of course heavily changes from city to city and for example New York does not have a tram system. (It has a metro, but that's a different kind).

I however struggle heavily to find any Railway, Mountain Cable Cars or Electronic Rails not found in Switzerland...??? Keep in mind, that we also have Barbados, so it's not only for Big cities.

Hmm, Segways?

Ninja'd, mitsho is getting a lot closer, but is still not on the mark.

But then every country (that's not landlocked) would have all of them.

Actually, it's to do with a specific type of railroad.

Actually, it's to do with a specific type of railroad.

Is it countries with High Speed rail systems (classified by speeds)

Or is it gauge widths in use?

Undergrounds? Maglevs?

No, but Maglevs is getting a lot closer.

Monorails.

Linear induction motors.

Diesel locomotives

Ah! The city has two one million dollars left from the budget. Monorail!

Maybe trams?

Monorails.

Linear induction motors.

Diesel locomotives

Correct! Here's the map with a key to all the colors:

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/2127/tomas5donotoverwrite.jpg

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Oh no! I ain't got no map, people! I just like guessing. Will someone else do one, please?

(Damn! Monorails was just a blind guess. I don't understand that key at all. The UK has abandoned plans for a monorail? Is that right? And why are they less popular in large cities?)

Judging from skimming this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monorails), monorails (especially outside of the Far East) tend to be mostly used for amusement or at theme parks.

Moscow monorail:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Monorail_Moskau_-_Einfahrt_in_Station_Telezentrum.jpg/350px-Monorail_Moskau_-_Einfahrt_in_Station_Telezentrum.jpg
But... but... you told me they were less popular in places like Moscow. Else, naturally, I'd have guessed right away. ;)

Gyroscopically balanced monorail:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Einschienerp.jpg/200px-Einschienerp.jpg
Which is just showing off, imo.

My mistake, I was just referring to large cities in general and didn't notice that Moscow has a monorail system. :blush:

OK. I'll let you off.

Upside down monorail:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Schwebebahn_ueber_Strasse.jpg/220px-Schwebebahn_ueber_Strasse.jpg

Yeah, that key is confusing, what does the light yellow one say, under construction?

I really advise to use colour schemes (i.e. red + yellow = orange) when mixing stuff like this. Or even better, just subdivide the countries and have them in stripes or something. All those shades of blue...

Oh well, let's hope I do better, though that map is not self made ;)

http://i47.tinypic.com/2jg3z8p.jpg

Looks a lot like the map for who voted in favour of Palestine yesterday at the UN…

countries that have held seats on the security council of the UN

EDIT: Ninja'd

Looks a lot like the map for who voted in favour of Palestine yesterday at the UN…

That can't be it, because the UK and France are the same color, but the UK abstained while France voted for it.

And it can't be SC seats because France and UK and China and Russia are Permanent Members and they're different coloured than the US.

countries that were (or were partially) former colonial possesions and/or possessors

Then why aren't the US in green? :p

We were both a possession and a possessor, so we get our own color? Maybe?

So what does Cambodia and Loas have in common with each other and nobody else?
What makes Nepal unique?

It's a real puzzler. I can't think of anything it might be, atm.

No ;) Nothing so far. I don't want to give a confusing hint, but maybe I can say that there may be discussion on how to measure this correctly, i.e. it's not something that's easily countable. ;)

Official languages?

Population census?

Biodiversity

Biodiversity compared to average altitude?

I have been wanting to do this for a long time:

Official languages?
No

Population census?
No

Biodiversity
No

Biodiversity compared to average altitude?
No

Next! ;)

Amount of landmines in the ground

Number of totalitarian ruler birthplaces !

Drinking?

Average duration of love making?

Number of totalitarian ruler birthplaces !

That's out of the left field, but I like out-of-the-box thinking. Sadly, no.

Drinking?

Well, it's something social in any case, but not drinking ;)

Average duration of love making?

Well, it's something social in any case, but not sex, no ;)

Amount of landmines in the ground

Doesn't really gel with the whole Africa and Europe in the green category, does it?


It's really difficult to give a hint that's neither too obvious nor misleading. So I'm gonna leave it at "something social" and state the obvious fact that if we could exclude the green category, the map would be more interesting ;)

Number of recognised or official languages? Green would be 1, of course.

Edit: Probably not, actually. Indonesia is green.

Cigarette consumption?