French Communes mapgasm

[homelycooking]

In honor of Hash's legislative predictions work, here's another project which took an absurd amount of time to complete. Right click either for super-colossal version:




Comments and suggestions are welcome.

[ilikeverin]

You are a flawless human being.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Indeed, this is marvellous.

[big bad fab]

I don't like your colours for Bayrou.








No, just kiddin', of course (and making fun of people never happy).
This is Kolossal. I love it !!!!
You're welcome to do absolutely any other French map you want, whenever you want.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I hate to be mean, but how long did it take to complete this amazing map?

[big bad fab]

No infraction points on this, Al, please...


Or you can infract the fact that homely hasn't partted Paris in arrondissements.
Yeah, this is the only (very minor) point where we can make a remark (I've done the same to Gaël in the past).
But I'm just sitting on my back and "scanning" your maps, Hash and homely, so...

[Adam Griffin]

Beautiful!

[homelycooking]

I hate to be mean, but how long did it take to complete this amazing map?

Six weeks (total) to complete both - readers of this board's French elections thread will remember that I posted the 2007 map back in April. I spent an hour or two on the maps every day.

Not to mention that I painstakingly hand-striped hundreds of tied communes between the two maps.

[homelycooking]

Or you can infract the fact that homely hasn't partted Paris in arrondissements.
Yeah, this is the only (very minor) point where we can make a remark (I've done the same to Gaël in the past).
But I'm just sitting on my back and "scanning" your maps, Hash and homely, so...

Well, Fabien, now take a look at Paris (and Marseille, and Lyon... )

[Antonio the Sixth]

Even arrondissements now ? You are amazing.

[Tender Branson]

Great stuff ...

Already working on the Round 2 maps ?

[Tender Branson]

For reference, there are 37.000 towns in France, 3.000 counties in the US and 2500 towns in Austria.

[Antonio the Sixth]

For reference, there are 37.000 towns in France, 3.000 counties in the US and 2500 towns in Austria.

Yeah, we do have a sh*tload of tiny communes...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

For reference, there are 37.000 towns in France, 3.000 counties in the US and 2500 towns in Austria.

Yeah, we do have a sh*tload of tiny communes...

Anything else would be quite, quite unfrench.

[big bad fab]

Or you can infract the fact that homely hasn't partted Paris in arrondissements.
Yeah, this is the only (very minor) point where we can make a remark (I've done the same to Gaël in the past).
But I'm just sitting on my back and "scanning" your maps, Hash and homely, so...

Well, Fabien, now take a look at Paris (and Marseille, and Lyon... )

GREAT ! It's fine to have both maps, in fact

[homelycooking]

A little communes summary for 2012:

Hollande won an estimated 12,000 communes; Sarkozy 16,000 communes; Le Pen 5,000.
Le Pen won or tied in at least one commune in every department outside the Petite Couronne except for Finistere.

Melenchon won about 500, mostly small ones in the South of France. He won the most communes by department in Aude and Drome.

Bayrou won 50 or 60 - most of which are in Pyrenees-Atlantiques, of course.

Eva Joly won in six communes: two in Ariege and one each in Hautes-Alpes (Eourres), Drome, Cotes-d'Armor (Tremargat) and Hautes-Pyrenees.

NDA barely won his hometown of Yerres and also won some tiny little hamlet in Lorraine called Molring.

Poutou, Arthaud and Cheminade didn't win any communes.

Somehow, though, Cheminade took 22.7% in Varmonzey, in the Vosges...

[homelycooking]

Ever seen a map in 2.5% scale? As always, right click to super-size.

[Antonio the Sixth]

You are the best.

Where is the 2012 map, though. It must be WAY prettier.

[minionofmidas]

A little communes summary for 2012:

Hollande won an estimated 12,000 communes; Sarkozy 16,000 communes; Le Pen 5,000.
Melenchon won about 500, mostly small ones in the South of France. He won the most communes by department in Aude and Drome.
Bayrou won 50 or 60 - most of which are in Pyrenees-Atlantiques, of course.

How about the second round?

[homelycooking]

How about the second round?

My best guess is 20,000 for Sarko, 17,000 for Hollande. I think he (Hollande) probably picked up 6,000 or 7,000 over the 2007 second round.

[big bad fab]

Even without zooming, it's great !
When zooming, wow !
Thanks a lot !

[homelycooking]

Where is the 2012 map, though. It must be WAY prettier.

The great cartographic tetralogy is complete. Four maps, 150,000 communes, 100 million pixels, 200+ hours, 2.5% scales: pure, unadulterated mapgasm.

[minionofmidas]

I think I just had sex.

[Velasco]

Amazing. I don't know if this is a sexual or a mystic experience. It doesn't matter anyway.

[big bad fab]

Brilliant ! Fantastic !
And you can imagine how it's good for a French man to have a political travel through your map, revisiting all the communes and areas I know and being alternatively disgusted and delighted

Thank you very much, homely !

And if you want to waste spend another 50 hours, well the second round of 1974 (the thinnest margin of all) is here for you