Hype for the Future 28D: Different novaTop Interests in Wisconsin and Minnesota
Preamble Like the novaTop Travel Itinerary focuses on the East Coast for high-density, and thus high-intensity, human intelligence, extensions of the novaTop Itinerary continue along to focus on the Upper Midwestern states for a more moderate perspective on human intelligence and progressive values. While the Northeastern perspective focuses on the Northern (Yankee) origins of the modern-day United States of America, the more modest Upper Midwestern perspectives focus on the realities of […]#geography
Muztagh Ata -"Father of Ice Mountain", Kunlun Mountains range, located in Western China (Xinjiang). Situated on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau and overlooks the Karakoram Highway .Lots of lakes/ponds, that might be Karakul Lake #nature #geography #photography #asia #earth #geology
Where is Lebanon 🇱🇧?
#Lebanon
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Hype for the Future 28C: Building an Identity on Travel and Events
geoTopFlex vs futoTopFlex In the past, novaTopFlex had identified numerous travel and cultural opportunities under the banner "futoTopFlex." In the near future, the novaTop Identity shall research potential opportunities to identify different "catchment area" zones for different major and perhaps even minor events in the community. When referring to "catchment areas" for different types of events, applications utilizing QGIS and/or OpenStreetMap data shall be redesignated geoTop content and […]
#EveryCountryIsUnique puzzle 1093
Which country is the only one in the world with these 4 properties?
- Its name has 8 letters
- Its flag contains at least these colors: red and green
- Is in continent: Africa
- Has never participated in the Winter Olympics
Answer in the comments with a Content Warning! #Geography #Quiz #Vexillology
What does summer feel like where you live? Hot or cool? Rainy or dry? For the #30daymapchallenge Day 25 prompt "Hexagons", I mapped summer climates across North America. I averaged the 1991-2020 climate normals for mean summer temperature and total summer precipitation within 50,000 square kilometer hexagons using data from ClimateNA.
#30daymapchallenge Day 22 "Data Challenge: Natural Earth". Natural Earth is such a valuable source for spatial data layers! I made this pseudo "North America at Night" type map using the urban areas and roads (subsetted to major and secondary highways) data from Natural Earth. I like the strong sense of interwoven connectivity I get when looking at this visualization.
#30daymapchallenge Day 27 "Boundaries": imagining a North America with countries, states, and counties replaced by nested watersheds at multiple scales. I used data from the CEC's North American Environmental Atlas to map the major watersheds of North America using a color palette, text style, and overall aesthetic inspired by 1950s era political maps.
Cape Spear: The Easternmost Point of North America 🇨🇦📍
Cape Spear, located near St. John's, Newfoundland, is the easternmost point of North America! From here, you can be among the first people on the continent to see the sunrise each day. 🇨🇦 #Canada #Newfoundland #CapeSpear #Geography #Sunrise
Hype for the Future 28B: Defining the “Catchment Area”
For the three country music festivals of interest for novaTopFlex, the catchment areas are clearly distinct even if overlaps exist. For instance, the Voices of America Country Music Festival is located within the catchment area largely associated with Southwest Ohio and perhaps also into Kentucky and Indiana audiences. As with every other country music festival, audiences from Southwest Virginia and throughout Tennessee may also be attracted to the festival, which is within a few hours of […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/hype-for-the-future-28b-defining-the-catchment-area/
Where is Mongolia 🇲🇳?
#Mongolia
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One more 🆕 #geography quiz. This time about the major rivers of Brazil. Can you locate them correctly? Brazil is far more than the Amazon River 💦 Link: geographyquiz.app/quiz/brazil-... #brazil #quiz
Where is Cyprus 🇨🇾?
#Cyprus
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#PlacesOfWorship
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#EveryCountryIsUnique puzzle 1092
Which country is the only one in the world with these 3 properties?
- Its flag has 4 colors
- Has English as language (official or de facto)
- Uses timezone UTC
Answer in the comments with a Content Warning! #Geography #Quiz #Vexillology
#EveryCountryIsUnique puzzle 1091
Which country is the only one in the world with these 4 properties?
- Its flag contains white
- Has a population greater than 10M
- Has French as language (official or de facto)
- Uses timezone UTC+01:00
Answer in the comments with a Content Warning! #Geography #Quiz #Vexillology
Where is France 🇫🇷?
#France
#StepByStep 👣
#PlacesOfWorship
Been here? ❤️
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#Maps #Cartography #Geography #OneWorld
3/6
Published today! Understanding Cultural Landscapes, by Rachel Hunt & Ben Garlick.
Priveleged to have had a preview of this, and very pleased to recommend it!
#geography #Landscape #CulturalGeography
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Where is Dominica 🇩🇲?
#Dominica
#StepByStep 👣
#PlacesOfWorship
Been here? ❤️
Want to visit? 🔁
#Maps #Cartography #Geography #OneWorld
3/6
Turkey, the bird and the country. Vaguely related to Thanksgiving.
In an earlier live, we were planning for visit by a high ranking Turkish official, accompanied by his spouse.
The meal planners circulated the dinner menu with the main course featuring "Breast of Turkey".
I gently explained the advantage of changing this to a more neutral description.
"Poultry" it became. No diplomatic incident occurred.
#EveryCountryIsUnique puzzle 1090
Which country is the only one in the world with these 3 properties?
- Has a population less than 10M
- Its capital city has a population greater than 1M
- Uses currency: franc
Answer in the comments with a Content Warning! #Geography #Quiz
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