Uwe#eiffeltowers I have a new one for you, close to Berlin. An den vier Ruten 26, 15827 Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Deutschland
In a backyard of a care home.
In a backyard of a care home.
Jon WorthOk, nice try my clients in Paris. But this isnโt 3D enough to go into my list ๐ #EiffelTowers
OK, this was too niche, even for Mastodon
Here are the answers
Number 1 - Ukraine ๐บ๐ฆ - 109 #EiffelTowers, 36.7m people, 2.97 per million inhabitants
2 - Estonia ๐ช๐ช - 2 Towers, 1.3m people, 1.54 per million
3 - Lithuania ๐ฑ๐น - 4 Towers, 2.7m people, 1.48 per million
4 - Macau ๐ฒ๐ด - 1 Tower, 0.7m people, 1.43 per million
5 - Armenia ๐ฆ๐ฒ - 3 Towers, 2.8m people, 1.07 per million
France ๐ซ๐ท has a paltry 39 towers, so just 0.6 per million
https://gruene.social/@jon/112240887202694502
Jon Worth (@[email protected])
OK, today's #EiffelTowers quiz question Without looking it up, there are only 5 countries in the world - 4 of them in Europe, 1 in Asia - that have more than 1 Eiffel Tower per million inhabitants (Eiffel Towers confirmed currently standing, includes the original, replicas, derivatives and resemblances) Can you name all 5? I will edit this toot with the people who get the correct answers first ๐ (Special administrative regions, colonies, territories *are counted separately*)
OK, today's #EiffelTowers quiz question
Without looking it up, there are only 5 countries in the world - 4 of them in Europe, 1 in Asia - that have more than 1 Eiffel Tower per million inhabitants (Eiffel Towers confirmed currently standing, includes the original, replicas, derivatives and resemblances)
Can you name all 5? I will edit this toot with the people who get the correct answers first ๐
(Special administrative regions, colonies, territories *are counted separately*)
People are wonderful
Since posting this
- someone told me what happened to the Friesland tower and sent a video of it
- someone helped me work out a tower in Korea had moved
- I was sent details of a tower in Italy I was missing
- Iโve been contacted about photos of the IJzendijke tower
Keep the #EiffelTowers suggestions coming! https://gruene.social/@jon/112226234302225916
Jon Worth (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Right Now the #EiffelTowers map is ready as well! ๐ช Now over 470 towers mapped Full zoomable map https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/eiffel-towers-derivatives-and-replicas_1006050#3/22.35/11.87 Can you help me confirm the status of the ones with the ? icons? Can you send me a picture to use for the ones without one? Any towers I am missing? Next: update the blog post about this (not today!)
Right
Now the #EiffelTowers map is ready as well! ๐ช
Now over 470 towers mapped
Full zoomable map
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/eiffel-towers-derivatives-and-replicas_1006050#3/22.35/11.87
Can you help me confirm the status of the ones with the ? icons? Can you send me a picture to use for the ones without one? Any towers I am missing?
Next: update the blog post about this (not today!)
And as ever: mapping #EiffelTowers is never done. Information about 3 more towers sent to me ๐
Keep them coming!
Also photos of the ones I have mapped already would be very welcome - Creative Commons or public domain pics of many of the towers donโt exist.
And once that's done... then I will update the GeoGuessr game featuring the Eiffel Towers, and then... finally... write a looooong blog post about all the stories like:
Why massive towers in housing estates in Pakistan, and malls in Thailand? Where is Serbia's Eiffel triangle? Which country has the most #EiffelTowers per capita?
Iโve been working on this on and off for months now, but I *think* my research listing the world's #EiffelTowers is for the moment complete
467 towers in my list (of which status unknown 31, and destroyed or never built 42)
Of the rest, 268 are to be found in Google Street View, 126 are not
And of the towers still likely standing today, 358 are replicas, 25 resemblances, 11 derivatives
Many but not all mapped here https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/eiffel-towers-derivatives-and-replicas_1006050#4/52.11/16.13
Next: complete the map ๐
Europe has a *lot* of replica #EiffelTowers
And yes, Ukraine has more towers per head of population than anywhere else - by a considerable distance
The ones I am confident still stand - whether shown in Google Street View or not - are now mapped. 365 towers
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/eiffel-towers-derivatives-and-replicas_1006050#5/49.468/20.676
Next to map towers removed for some reason, or ones where the status is unknownโฆ