Opinion of this map?

[Crumpets]

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Morbid.

[parochial boy]

Morbid.

We should start a support group for left wingers from countries with horrible politics

[palandio]

De Voogd's maps in general are quite nice and the idea of a pan-european political map is also definitely worth a try.

That being said the outcome is rather disappointing. This is already clear from the fact that the inconsistent territorial divisions have to be hidden behind ugly jpg aesthetics. He should at least have tried to get a suitable scale of subdivisions for all countries (From reading his blog I think he is aware of this). A good option might be departements (France), provinces (Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium), regions (Greece, Czech Republic) and counties (UK, Romania). For Germany something in the order of the 96 Raumordnungsregionen. At least the amount of detail should be similar.

And finally the map misses the grey shades. Even when splitting the political spectrum into left and right, a region with say 51% right, 49% left would not have the right as the dominant political force.

[DavidB.]

I think the lack of nuance is the strength of this image. We all know there are lots of nuances anyway.

[Figueira]

I didn't know all of North, West, and Mid-Wales were dominated by Plaid Cymru.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Not too bad for what it is.