Altered Maps XVI: Gerardus Mercator Must Die

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I would not have figured there were enough speakers of French, Nepalese or Korean in London to even be in the running. I'm going to guess those are areas which are predominantly white and/or black, so it doesn't take a huge amount of people to constitute a plurality of non-English speakers?
 
There are over 200k french people living in London, I'm even surprised that it's not more widespread.
 
Well, BBC says that the 2011 census gives 66,000 French-nationals in London- the higher figure seems to involve a combination of speculation and playing games with definitions- but the three Francophone boroughs all have pretty high "Other White" populations, so I guess it makes sense.
 
Yes, but as you know i mean the one bordering Elephant & Castle, also known as civilized land's end ^_^

From TF's map i THINK it is the portuguese, but it might be the spanish too? The Waterloo area does have some seriously expensive architecture, including some apartments which aren't sold but leased for 80 years or similar, and then go back to the previous owner's family.
 
For a really long time, I thought Waterloo was just a section of Kitchener. I had a bunch of friends in Kitchener back in the day and all of their addresses would say Kitchener-Waterloo. I'd even write my letters to be sent to Kitchener-Waterloo and there were never any issues.

And yet, they're not actually the same place. Lame.
 
They used to be separate, then they just kinda grew into eachother. Kinda like the way they and Cambridge are growing into eachother now. It's at the point that they just call it the Tri-Cities area. (Except North-Dumfries, but i have no idea where the hell that is, it just kinda is everywhere around Cambridge and seems to be in some other plane of existence, being everywhere and nowhere at the same time. You'll drive past the signs "Entering North Dumfries, Population:10,000 and there is......nothing)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-Cities_(Ontario)

I don't even know what Kitchener is, and i lived in London for 3 years ^_^

well, in my personal bubble, in London, anyway
Used to be called Bismark. Until they decided that "Bismark" was an unpatriotic name during WW1 for some reason....
 
This is the London Waterloo. Notice the buildings next to the wheel; apartments there cost a massive fortune to just rent for a lifetime (you can't buy them) :)

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The station thing is the one leading to the continent, by train below the sea channel.
 
Surprisingly low density.

It is the start of the area south of the Thames. London's bulk of the population is north of the Thames (always was).

Moreover, London doesn't have high density, for a city. Which is why it is a number of times larger area-wise than Paris, iirc, despite having similar population.

hey I was there once

I often went there for walks. Passing the bridge next to those buildings, and ending my journey at the train-station, then returning to the correct side of the Thames, and back to wherever i was living at the time (either Paddington, Bayswater, or Holland Park). Central London is very nice... :) Maybe i will return there sometime in the future - who knows.
 
The station thing is the one leading to the continent, by train below the sea channel.

St Pancras replaced Waterloo as the terminal for the channel tunnel in 2007.
 
I would not have figured there were enough speakers of French, Nepalese or Korean in London to even be in the running. I'm going to guess those are areas which are predominantly white and/or black, so it doesn't take a huge amount of people to constitute a plurality of non-English speakers?

What happened to the Scotch?
 
I couldn't actually name any London Boroughs on a map, short of pointing and guessing, but hey - I'm not a city boy in the slightest.

What happened to the Scotch?

I don't think that alcohol has a language.
 
I don't think that alcohol has a language.

This is incorrect

Buuuuut you have to have taken it to understand fellow speakers.
 
The City of Brighton

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Not a real city, just a fake one I built in Cities:Skylines

- Red subway line - W shaped, snakes through the city and forms the backbone of public transit
- Navy Blue subway line - runs perpendicular to the red line as a support line
- Green subway line - another support line with a terminus at the University of Brighton
- Yellow subway line - yet another support line with a terminus at the University of Brighton
- Blue subway line - runs through the central business district, stops at the local airport, and connects to the industrial part of town
- Pink subway line - the mod messed up and did not highlight this one in pink, but you can see slightly light blue rail markers - It's also a support line, to the right of the yellow one , then runs along the coast, then loops around, hits up two islands, then crosses under the harbour again and has a terminus near blue and red line stations

- All the other light blue rail markers you see are LRT (tram/light rapid transit) lines. There's 3 or 4 lines total, with stops placed a lot more frequently than the subway lines

- The line in dark green (not the subway line) is the Regional Express Rail. It has a stop at the international airport and spaceport (left side of map), and has stops in other important parts of town, the CBD, uptown, and also has stations connecting to the port, the local airport, the intercity train station, and 2 islands.

- Most of the rail lines carry industrial goods, but the line that loops in (and connects to the express line and blue subway line) is the intercity passenger rail line
 
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Is that an auto-generated map or one you composed yourself?
 
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