Guess the map 13: Mercator maps are cool, actually

[Birdjaguar]

I feel bad for stealing it from under the nose of all those that guesses first, while I just scrolled past.

Solving these is a team effort where one can buld on what others have asked or guessed.

 

[mitsho]

Ok, then yes, I gladly put one up. I first wanted to do a joke

Spoiler joke option :

but then it is from a joke, so no I won't do that.

Spoiler solution :

Red is "Tomato Europe", Yellow is "Potato Europe"

Our of the three serious ones I considered, I went with the following one. Blue is different from the other categories and grey is NOT not applicable. Hope that is cryptic enough.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Plenty cryptic I think.
Since blue is different, if I ignore it, are the other colors political in nature?

 

[Samson]

Are they (other than blue) in a natural order?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Are the darker colors more or less than the lighter ones?

 

[The_J]

The colour map is not very intuitive, so I guess it's not a scale?

 

[mitsho]

Plenty cryptic I think.
Since blue is different, if I ignore it, are the other colors political in nature?

everything is political, so I'd say yes. (but most would say no)

Are they (other than blue) in a natural order?

yes

Are the darker colors more or less than the lighter ones?

higher, but the scale is uneven

The colour map is not very intuitive, so I guess it's not a scale?

It is, but blue and grey are special colours outside the scale

 

[Samson]

Vermont is the only US state in the grey class. If only I knew more about US states that would probably help.

 

[CKS]

I'm trying to imagine what Texas, California, New York, Illinois, and North Carolina have in common only with each other but not coming up with anything. My familiarity with US states is certainly not sufficient.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Percent of population having sex before marriage?

 

[mitsho]

Vermont is the only US state in the grey class. If only I knew more about US states that would probably help.

It certainly fits the stereotype... ;-)

I'm trying to imagine what Texas, California, New York, Illinois, and North Carolina have in common only with each other but not coming up with anything. My familiarity with US states is certainly not sufficient.

If you take out North Carolina for a moment there, what these states have in common is very obvious and is what makes this map informative, though not necessarily helpful.

Percent of population having sex before marriage?

No, no percentages.

 

[The_J]

If it's not percentages, is it then absolute numbers, or categories?

(I still don't have a good idea)

 

[mitsho]

I guess I better just give the scale, as I‘m not entirely sure how they got to that scale themselves From Top to bottom:

1-2 cases
3-5 cases
6-10 cases
11-20 cases
21 and more cases
Blue = no cases, but there have been in the past
Grey = no cases, and there never have been

 

[Samson]

Mass shootings?

 

[mitsho]

No, that would be dark, this is not dark.

 

[Kyriakos]

So apart from blue/gray, the cases are currently active?

 

[mitsho]

So apart from blue/gray, the cases are currently active?

Yes, as of beginning of February 2021.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Unresolved kidnappings?

 

[The_J]

Is it related to technology in any way?

 

[mitsho]

Unresolved kidnappings?

That's less dark for you? Wow. No, it is more fluff than serious, though I'd wage for some people, they take this (broad) topic very very serious, they can be rather fanatic.

Is it related to technology in any way?

No, but good guess.