I’m delighted that when you zoom in (your screenshot), the red pin is in the proper position on the forest 
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It’s small scale, but here’s a Lithuania shaped pond in Lithuania:
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well, while we’re on the subject:
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This huge relief map of BC is currently busted up and stored away. It used to be on display at the PNE in Vancouver.
I’d love to see it again.
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How die you find this? The gmaps image is pixel vomit for me.
Yes, the current image on Google is unfortunate with its long hard shadows. I think an earlier version was clearer. Also, somebody took the effort to trace the outline of the pond on OpenStreetMap:
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Here’s Vancouver International Airport:
Here’s a park just east of the airport, which is effectively a map/model of the airport’s runways:
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Two Rivers Overlook, St. Paul, Minnesota. Overlooking where the Mississippi River and the Minnesota River join (one of the spots). The pavement of the overlook is a map.
↓ cued to start at 1:05
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That’s awesome.
I followed the link and saw this:
The poor bugger is trying to mop up the Pacific Ocean. That’s gonna take a while…
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The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking close at hand;
They wept like anything to see
Such quantities of sand:
“If this were only cleared away,”
They said, “it would be grand!”
“If seven maids with seven mops
Swept it for half a year.
Do you suppose,” the Walrus said,
“That they could get it clear?”
“I doubt it,” said the Carpenter,
And shed a bitter tear.
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It’s offset by how many times they lost, though.
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I think @pesco would like this, would he not?
Including the typo in the headline.
Also, that dataset. I don’t even.
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Ooh, bivariate symbology!
Just dropping this BB post here:
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