It includes a legend for which colonial power controlled the territory

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration. Names given to babies born in 2025, from Social Security card applications, counted by state of birth.

My mom loves antiques, and has had this hanging in the guest room for years. Each time I visit, I look at it and have no idea what the lines show. Any idea?

Many people associate the Dutch to Protestantism because of things like Maurice of Nassau, the house of Orange, the Dutch Reformed Church and the so called "protestant work ethics" having been largely developed there. However as of 2026 58% of the Dutch population is irreligious, 16% is Catholic and 12% is Protestant. In 1849 when the country was way less secular than it currently is almost 40% of the population was Catholic, but it's important to remember that not all Dutch live in the Netherlands, since Flanders in Belgium is also a mostly Dutch and (at least historically) Catholic area. This means that considering Dutch speaking peoples in the Netherlands and in Belgium, we can actually say that despite being commonly associated with the Reformation, over half of the Dutch speaking population actually kept being Catholic, and even in modern days most Dutch speaking persons that have a religion are Catholic and not Protestant

Source & how it was made:

This is Brno, the second-largest city in the Czech Republic, rendered as one big isometric pixel-art map – the whole city plus surroundings, including the Brno Reservoir, Hády hill and Tuřany airport. It was inspired by Isometric NYC.

Data:

• Buildings, roads, tram tracks, water and greenery: OpenStreetMap

• Terrain: Terrarium elevation tiles (AWS Open Data)

• Roof colours and details (skylights, dormers, solar panels, terraces): the city's own aerial photo from 11 March 2026, and the national ČÚZK orthophoto outside its coverage

• Trees in forests and parks are placed by land type, so they're not exact positions

Isometric means no perspective: parallel lines stay parallel and a house at the edge is the same size as one in the centre. That's exactly how late-90s city builders looked.

It's not a static picture. The interactive version has live trams and buses moving in real time from the regional transit feed, plus layers from the city's open data (roadworks, fire brigade call-outs, traffic accidents, statues and Stolpersteine).

Interactive map: https://brno2000.cz/?ref=reddit (the UI is in Czech, but you can just scroll around)

Happy to answer questions about the rendering pipeline.

This map shows the religious breakdown of Canada back in 1951, very interesting in my opinion. If you have any questions or comment please feel free to leave them down below.

• Key: Blue arrow = swing towards Democrats; Red arrow = swing towards Republicans

• Thicker arrows = more residents per precinct; Longer arrows = larger swing

• 2024 data from Presidential race + US House races + state legislature races; 2026 data from US House races + state legislature races

• Map author notes a Republican swing in "upscale Manhattan" (Manhattan South of 96 st) of R +2.4 with 2/3 of residents in Republican swinging precincts. Residents in Upper Manhattan swung D+8.

• Map by Michael Caley for Expecting Goals

The second map's got more precision, but it's also pretty busy. Which map do you prefer?

Source: 2006 United States elections - Wikipedia

A map of every area where Frisian was spoken, from the Frisii in Roman times through Redbad’s kingdom, the Frankish conquest, the Frisian Freedom, the big medieval floods, Habsburg and Dutch rule, and Napoleon, down to the three Frisias of today (West, East and North Frisia, plus Saterland and Heligoland).

Borders: Natural Earth, GADM and geoBoundaries. Some early borders are rough estimates, like Rorik’s fief around 850 and how far Frisian reached in North Holland before 1300.

Which year surprised you most?