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Stats, Maps n Pix
statsmapsnpix.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2016
Maps and statistics posts about population, geography and GIS in Britain and worldwide, using QGIS, ffmpeg and open datasets.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for its population density and longest-straight-line analyses, its methodology write-ups, and its QGIS projection tips.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Where is the most densely populated square kilometre in the UK? (2023)2 people · 68 points · first shared 2023 · 53 comments on HN
- 2The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road)2 people · 28 points · first shared 2023 · 6 comments on HN
- 3World population by latitude2 people · first shared 2024
- 4Map Animations with Ffmpeg1 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 5GB railway stations and nearest station1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 6How to make a 3D population density render for any country in the world1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 7The Great Polish Map of Scotland1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 8Population Density in Europe1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 9WALRUS: The Wirral and Liverpool Regional Urban System1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 10How Big Is Tokyo?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 11The Global Human Settlement Layer: an amazing new global population dataset1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 12Stats, Maps n Pix: From Anscombe's quartet to choropleth classification1 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 13Intra-Interstate Populations1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 14The longest line part 21 people · first shared 2024
- 15Globe projections and insets in qgis1 people · first shared 2025
What HN people wrote when they linked it
paisawalla · 2025-07-21
Very nice result. You can also do the same in QGIS, this blog post shows off using orthographic projection for other goals: https://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2019/09/globe-projections-and-insets-in-…
Gibbon1 · 2025-02-15
I look at California ISO's site
https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/supply
The difference between summer and winter for renewables is 20%. In California the difference is driven mostly by solar.
This is an interesting page.
http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2021/11/world-population-by-latitude.html
Majority of the worlds population lives between 40 north and 10 degrees south. And also some places like Scotland had lots of wind.
Definitely winners and losers in the transition.
blutack · 2024-12-19
Part 2 goes into the methodology - it's some neat analysis!
http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2023/04/the-longest-line-part-2.html
HPsquared · 2024-07-29
True, but the world population isn't distributed symmetrically: there aren't many living at high latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere. See graph "population by latitude" here: https://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2021/11/world-population-by-latitude.htm…
There are quite a few people living North of 45°N, but hardly any South of 45°S.
zeristor · 2023-02-09
This seems to be a take on the original article about finding the densest square although not actually what is like in that square kilometre.
http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2023/02/where-is-most-densely-populated-s…