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A dark map of Lake Baikal. Titled: 'Lake Baikal' with subtitle: 'Age: oldest (25-30 million years) Depth: deepest (1,642 m) Area: 7th largest (Belgium + 1,033 km2)'. The bathymetry is coloured from dark black at the deepest through a purple-y gray to gray for the shallow regions. A colorbar has the 'dysphotic' and 'aphotic' zones roughly labelled. It spans latitude 52-56 N and longitudes 104-110 E. (approx). A dark, mostly black, subtle hillshade is applied to the surrounding landscape. The lake cuts a roughly diagonal line from the bottom left of the frame to the top right, and it is very narrow compared to its length. Credits at the bottom read: 'by:tlohde / GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group 2025 (2025): The GEBCO_2025 Grid - a continuous terrain model for oceans and land at 15 arc-second intervals'
Map of Wales. Titled: 'Access to the Railways' The map is a proximity surface, with bright colors representing large distances from a railway station, and darker colors closer to train stations. Additionally the proximity surface is shown with illuminated contours giving the a 3d-ish feel, with the railways running along ridges, and places far from the network appearing to be at the bottom of a hill. The middle of snowdonia and a portion of the west coast are shown as being the furthest from the network. An annotation reads: 'Llangrannog the furthest village from a train station (in a straight line)'. At the top right some text reads: 'Platform Wales'. the credits read: 'by tlohde / OpenStreetMap Contributors'
A map of East Anglia, UK. No features have been drawn on the map, however the land is coloured from white to pink to dark pink depending on the depth of superficial deposits. The majority of the region is white, however there are some bands of pink and a few patches of dark pink, neart the Suffolk/Norfolk border. In the top right is a histogram showing the distribution of depths. The frequency is shown on a log-scale, indicating most areas have no deposits, but some have up to 100 m. The title runs downt the right side of the plot and reads: 'Depth of Superficial Deposits East Anglia UK' and is written in white with a large drop shadow in dark pink. The north sea / background is black, which makes the whole image quite high contrast. Credits along the bottom read: 'by:tlohde / ‘Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2025'
A black and white map of Western Europe. The oceans are black, as are the lakes, and rivers. The land is white, with some black stipples denoting the areas of higher ground. Country borders are not shown. Text in the upper right reads: 'From Calais (Fr) --> Orfu (Hu) via: Belgium where it rained; the Netherlands for (second?) breakfast; Germany where it was hot and I filled my thermos with ice cream; Austria for the only proper hill; and into Hungary for a swim in Lake Balaton.' The route taken is shown, along with the elevation profile of the route along the bottom of the image. At the bottom the text reads: '~2100 km / 13 days / 0 punctures' with credits: 'by tlohde / Copernicus Global DEM (ESA) & Natural Earth'
Graphic representation of Iceland. The frame is circular, with a blue background. Iceland is depicted as a series of circles of decreasing size, tightly packed together. The circles are red. The title is ÍSLAND and the capital, Reykjavík, is also labelled. Credits at the bottom read: Encircled Iceland Incircles / by-tlohde / made with Natural Earth
On the left-hand side is a 4 x 5 grid of circular maps showing the city centres of each of the twenty regional capitals of Italy. Only polygons of parks and gardens (green), buildings (white) and piazzas (red) are shown. Above each circle is the city title, with the region name below. On the right-hand side is a map of Italy, showing the regions (in red) and the regional capitals are labelled in green. The whole figure has a black background.
minimalistic representation of Zürich Hauptbanhof. Thin white lines depicting the railway lines are shown on a grey background, with all the railpoints (aka switches) shown as red circles
On a black background are many many, small wiggly lines, the lines are coloured by the direction in which they go, using a circular colour map. If you know that the lines depict where water would flow over a landscape, and that the colours correspond to the direction, one can see how this does resemble terrain, with lower elevations and river valleys depicted as empty space, and ridges are where the lines of different colours meet. It is messy and quite abstract
A graph showing the distance from Budapest against the bearing from Budapest
A map of the Cairngorms national park. Black background with white national park border. Within the national park the terrain is represented by colors ranging from black through dark purples to bright orange. Brighter colours represent regions that are 'more visible' than darker regions, as these areas can be seen from more summits. The resulting sum of viewsheds bears strong resemblance to the underlying topography.