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Football Fields of Europe - Based on Data from OpenStreetMaps (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Servais@discuss.tchncs.de to c/yurop@lemm.ee
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Germany: 45 630

France: 32 082

Italy: 26 139

England: 14 307

Spain: 10 999

Poland: 10. 37

The Netherlands: 7690

Sweden: 6036

Belgium: 5633

Austria: 5115

Ukraine: 4716

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[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Football fields of continental Europe. This is blatant Nordic erasure and I will not stand for it!

Meaning I'm going to sit down because my legs are tired.

edit: also; isn't this effectively a population density map? Wonder how it'd look if this was done per capita (for eg the population administrative unit each field is in)

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here's an attempt to overlay this map with a population density one. It's rough but I couldn't think of a better way to show the info with what's available. Red is still a football field, but now non-football-field land is green. Population density is blue. This means that football field + high density = magenta, no field + high density = cyan, field + low density = red, and no field + low density = green. Reference colours in the Bay of Biscay. It seems like the UK is basically a perfect density map, rural France loves football, eastern Europe in general is less bothered about the sport. I'm quite surprised by how few are in Spain too, given the country's legacy in football

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Ha now that's pretty interesting. Funny how coastal areas look like they're into football more than inland areas

The color scheme worked out really well for a quick solution, too. Good job!

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Relevant xkcd:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/heatmap_2x.png

https://xkcd.com/1138/

[–] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

It's still not a perfect overlap

On the following map high density areas without fields are in cyan, Ireland for instance is probably more rugby oriented:

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Heh, figures

[–] halfapage@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We've gotta flatten the alps, that is an unacceptable state of affairs.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Widen the Gotthard Tunnel until we can fit underground football fields in it

[–] neshura@bookwormstory.social 1 points 2 months ago

You joke but I can totally see those tunnel maniacs actually do that. Just to prove they can if nothing else

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can confirm. Germany is 100% covered in football fields.

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

stuff is unironically measured in football fields too

also shows how densely populated central europe is

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ITT: mountains, and places where there are not mountains. and eastern europe, which presumably has less mountains and more depression.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ireland also a bit of an outlier where the dominant sport isn't soccer.

Video of some hurling for those who've never seen it.

One of Gaelic football.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's wild to me that Ireland maintains several local sports at a high level and is also world-class at rugby with a relatively small population

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wild! Like how we punch that far above our weight in the rugby is mind blowing to me. I know NZ has a small population too but they're all about the rugby. There are honestly feck all rugby clubs in Ireland compared to the GAA or footie but the ones that do exist play at a ridiculous level.

edit: I was curious so went looking. It looks like there are less than 50 clubs on the whole island. Now a lot of secondary schools play at a very high level in Dublin and Limerick and wouldn't have a club associated with them so that's not the full picture, but still.

There is a club in my town, but only one other that I can see in a ~25KM radius whereas there would be probably 20x that of GAA and football clubs in the same area.

[–] ElmarsonTheThird@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Somewhat related: every football field indicates a settlement. That map makes me kinda sad.

I'm a recreational cyclist and live in central europe. Breathtaking views of nature (cycling along the Scottish north coast and such) can't be had with a football field and/or settlement every few kilometres.

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

America's influence really is everywhere. What I don't get is how the first 6 listed are not only both so low, but are measured as fractions. How do you have part of a football field?

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Over on this side of the pond, we call the sport soccer.

So for Americans and Canadians, this would be a map of soccer fields.