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Fancy-Fonts t1_itztx7z wrote

What about Antarctica, I heard its the contiennent with the highest elevation. 🇦🇶

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LeonardSmallsJr t1_iu05w5d wrote

China and Greenland surprised me, as did Eastern Europe. Nice graph!

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rightinmybummy2060 t1_iu0dmog wrote

Maldives the lowest

And Bhutan the highest

#Well, that escalated quickly.

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calguy1955 t1_iu0g9mo wrote

Seems like useless information.

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Reretox t1_iu0gt3n wrote

There must be a mistake about South Sudan.

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DaigaDaigaDuu t1_iu0k15n wrote

Highest point of Finland is on a slope of a small Norwegian mountain.

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kaeptnphlop t1_iu1lptp wrote

The Netherlands are way higher than that.

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FarFlungPluto t1_iu2m9xc wrote

For China its the region of Tibet that increases the average I guess.

What is happening with Great Britain.

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oeuvre9000 t1_iu3vk2v wrote

Suggestions:

Decoupling elevation from geopolitical boundaries may allow more of the detail to show through, if that's desirable. One colour per country is quite a coarse quantisation.

Try generating per-pixel rather than per-country average elevations and use a carefully chosen contrast colour to draw national boundaries.

Perhaps consider switching from the current blue-white-red colour mapping to an alternative with a couple more hues, continuing to account for people with colour perception differences.

Compressing the blue-white range as you have for differentiating commonly-occurring low elevations does add some visual clarity. However there's a tradeoff with the linear consistency of the scale (outcome: distinguishing mid-range and higher elevations is harder).

The maps and atlases in your local public / school / college library (or other cartography resources online) may be helpful.

Here's a classic legend generator: ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps

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Picolete t1_iu40rip wrote

I though Japan would have a higher average elevation, as is mostly a mountain range

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