Guess the map

[Heretic_Cata]

Now that this interlude is done, where's plarq with the confirmation

 

[say1988]

the Tydings-McDuffie Act that founded the Commonwealth promised Filipino independence 12 years from 1934.

Thanks, I knew there was an act establishing a timeline, but could not find it. Funny that WWII ended just in time to meet the requirements...

 

[dwaxe]

If you try REALLY hard, you will be able to make out the units of the labels.

Guess the map!

 

[amadeus]

Joke got ruined.

 

[Tee Kay]

Percentage of household waste recycled?

 

[Dumanios]

Highway speeds?

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Precentage of population who would like their country to be annexed by Germany.

 

[amadeus]

Highway speeds?

Nah, Japanese highway speeds are notoriously low.

 

[ilduce349]

Never mind.

 

[choxorn]

Number of German speakers?

1941
Phillipines occupied by the US

1943-45
The former German territories occupide by US forces and Phillipines liberated.
Soviet forces occupy and liberate Bulgaria

Wuh...?

So when America was granted colonial status to England in 1763, it was a step towards their indepence, which was planned by the crown before the revolution happened...

At the time, it was 13 seperate colonies, all of which had been granted colonial status prior to 1763, so... no.

 

[dwaxe]

FYI, the grey is used for both 0 and no data.

 

[Tee Kay]

Number of German speakers?

Austria.

 

[Meteor Man]

If you try REALLY hard, you will be able to make out the units of the labels.

Right...

Percentage of fascist citizens? Ha ha, I dunno.

Percentage of population that uses alternate means of transportation other than automobiles? But that would make no sense for Africa. Hmmm...

 

[Tee Kay]

Percentage of population that regularly use the train?

 

[dwaxe]

Percentage of population that regularly use the train?

Ding Ding Ding!

The official answer was railroad density (km railroad/km^2)

But your answer was super-close, and probably correct as well.

 

[Meteor Man]

I got close...but good job tailless! Japan does have a lot of railroads for their small size.

 

[Tee Kay]

Guess this:

 

[dwaxe]

Wow. I just looked at that map for a full 10 minutes before scrolling down and seeing the timeline beneath.

 

[Meteor Man]

Something to do with black segregation? Note that this happened when the majority of African nations gained their independence. The United States is 1930-1940. Britain is much before...and Russia hasn't yet.

Took me a while to figure out the color of the US.

File name is 1ZDue. If that helps.

EDIT: Even Greenland has a color, so maybe this doesn't have to do with countries...

 

[Tee Kay]

To clarify, the last category is "after 2000".

No, it's not segregation.