# Xkcd style map?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xkcd-style-map/70636>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 5, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xkcd-style-map/70636 "2017-01-05T05:46:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xkcd-style-map/70636/1 "2017-01-05T05:46:01Z")

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I was looking at the blog for [significatn terms aggregation](https://www.elastic.co/blog/significant-terms-aggregation) and found this super cool map!

Which xkcd map is this blog using to plot the geohash key ?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xkcd-style-map/70636/2 "2017-01-05T05:49:45Z")

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That is quite literally an XKCD strip, it's not a map we have used - [https://xkcd.com/1138/](https://xkcd.com/1138/)

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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xkcd-style-map/70636/3 "2017-01-05T05:54:09Z")

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Thanks for the reply. I was trying to refer to the one below with red rectangular on Google Earth. Sorry for the ambiguity.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xkcd-style-map/70636/4 "2017-01-05T05:55:07Z")

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Oh, heh 🙂

@Mark_Harwood do you remember?

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xkcd-style-map/70636/5 "2017-01-05T08:43:46Z")

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I used Google Earth - or the browser plugin. Last time I checked the google earth plugin worked in all browsers apart from Chrome, ironically.  
The trick is to turn the Json search results into KML markup. I have a gist of some JavaScript mapping code that does most of what you'll need here: [https://gist.github.com/markharwood/9227964](https://gist.github.com/markharwood/9227964)

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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xkcd-style-map/70636/6 "2017-01-05T09:04:47Z")

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@Mark_Harwood Thanks. This is really cool.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xkcd-style-map/70636/7 "2017-02-02T09:04:49Z")

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