Guess the map 13: Mercator maps are cool, actually

[The_J]

Total amount of robots in the country?

 

[Samson]

Total amount of robots in the country?

No, further away but cool guess.

 

[Samson]

Map with values on the key:

 

[The_J]

People.

...no...wait...
Electric cars?
No, that should be higher in Norway, I think.
something something microchip production?

 

[Samson]

People.

...no...wait...
Electric cars?
No, that should be higher in Norway, I think.
something something microchip production?

No. Think a little more general than that.

 

[Kyriakos]

Doesn't look like it is iron or zinc (going by google maps).

Steel?

 

[Samson]

Doesn't look like it is iron or zinc (going by google maps).

Steel?

No. Again, a bit more general.

 

[Kyriakos]

More general than steel?
The will to produce steel?

I don't know, maybe absolute number of factories?

Another idea, going by southern Europe: number of high-rises (defined in some way)

 

[Samson]

More general than steel?
The will to produce steel?

It is getting a bit philosophical, but I THINK this is closer to the answer.

I don't know, maybe absolute number of hard-industrial factory workers?

And this is further away.

 

[Kyriakos]

I edited to include building types. Closer or not?

 

[Samson]

I don't know, maybe absolute number of factories?

To my mind "The will to produce steel" is closer than "absolute number of factories" or "number of high-rises". I am not certain others would agree.

 

[Kyriakos]

I mean, unless Greece collapsed entirely in its production of H2So4, I can't think of anything in the map seriously tied to steel but not being steel

 

[Samson]

I mean, unless Greece collapsed entirely in its production of H2So4, I can't think of anything in the map seriously tied to steel but not being steel

It is not tied to steel at all. Steel in the above post could be replaced with loads of stuff.

 

[The_J]

So something like work motivation?

(not that I'd know how to measure this into discrete numbers...)

 

[Samson]

So something like work motivation?

(not that I'd know how to measure this into discrete numbers...)

No, not realy like that at all.

 

[GinandTonic]

Related to subsidies? Some kind of goverment support?

 

[Samson]

Related to subsidies? Some kind of goverment support?

No, nothing like that.

 

[Samson]

Doesn't look like it is iron or zinc (going by google maps).

Steel?

Think a little bit like this, but perhaps more abstract is a better word than more general. I think the economic flows related to this would be many times those related to steel.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Investment

 

[Samson]

Investment

No. I guess similarly abstract. The numbers in the key above are absolute numbers.