Guess the map 16: No need for that latitude!

[Samson]

Something to do with international relations?

No.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Laws?

 

[Samson]

Laws?

No

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Is Russia 'higher' than Iran or 'lower'?

 

[Samson]

Is Russia 'higher' than Iran or 'lower'?

There is no order

 

[Yeekim]

Looking back I see it was up for a couple of weeks, so I’m calling this one finished:

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Personal income tax on salary is most certainly being withheld in Estonia at least, so whoever made this map should check their sources.

EDIT: @Samson - anything to do with languages?

 

[Samson]

EDIT: @Samson - anything to do with languages?

No

 

[lymond]

may we get some kinda key for the colors?

 

[Samson]

may we get some kinda key for the colors?

That would be the answer. I can say they are all distinct and there is no natural order to them. Grey is no data, they would all have values if we knew them.

 

[Samson]

First hint: This is "Top X in Country".

 

[stfoskey12]

Is X a person?

 

[amadeus]

I suspect either a search engine or social media platform. I’m leading towards search engine, as I think Yahoo! is still no. 1 here in Japan.

 

[Samson]

social media platform.

We have a winner!!! I told you it was easy.

2nd is surprisingly diverse

 

[Yeekim]

We have a winner!!! I told you it was easy.

Not when you try to figure it out based on Baltics ... whoever made it once again needs better sources.

No way has vkontakte ever been bigger in Estonia than Facebook. As of 2023, Facebook had close to 1M users in Estonia, out of a population of 1,3M.

Vkontakte at 300k, where 1/3 of those never posted anything. https://www.researchgate.net/figure...-OK-Users-in-the-Baltic-States_fig3_344539441

 

[Samson]

I suspect either a search engine or social media platform. I’m leading towards search engine, as I think Yahoo! is still no. 1 here in Japan.

Are you up?

 

[Samson]

With confirmation from amadeus

 

[stfoskey12]

Something about aquifers?

 

[Samson]

Something about aquifers?

Totally. I was wondering how obvious it would be.

 

[stfoskey12]

The Ogallala Aquifer stands out. Is it what percent drained they are?

 

[Samson]

Something about aquifers?

I think you win, rather than trying to guess exactly which feature of aquifers it is graphing:

Groundwater-dependent ecosystem map exposes global dryland protection needs

They have a google maps overlay if you want to check out your local area.

https://codefornature.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-gde

Spoiler EG. North Africa :