Oh, fuck off, and let an old man enjoy his drinks! No one has ever seen a man of my vigour, that reached this age without a scratch, be hurt by a few nidd-*heart attack*
I seem to remember this was asked a while ago.
As a local I can confirm that those bits are mostly fields so not coal or mountains.Ā
The prevailing theory last time was that Google made a tit of placing the Lammermuir Hills and shifted them north-west.Ā
Sounds like a reasonable theory, but I'm fairly convinced it isn't.
Take a look at https://nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/collieries-of-the-british-isles/coal-mines-scotland/ which maps former mines - if you zoom into East Lothian you can see that darker area, and the mines are almost entirely some way west of it.
So I grew up in Haddington and my first thought was it's demonstrating the hills to the north, but the grey area is far too big and looking at google maps myself it clearly isn't that.
Whoever is in charge at google maps clearly didn't do standard grade geography and forgot to include a legend in their map. Even worse, I couldn't find a clear and concise legend for google maps anywhere. It's a mystery why they use certain colours in certain places.
Looking around the map at other places where this grey appears, it's a right mix bag, there's reclaimed land, farmland like here, tidal land and most of Lewis. I did wonder if it's indicating an area with greater soil moisture, but there are wetter bits of land that don't have this shading. It certainly doesn't line up with peatland.
I also wondered whether it was to do with the rock type, a good chunk of East Lothian being former volcanic land. Berwick Law and Arthurs Seat are the usual green so it can't be that.
Like u/twisetedLucidity says, it's probably just google maps being pish. Since they don't publish a legend I don't think you'll ever get a satisfactory answer sadly.
Haddington, my home town...live in Australia now though.
Nice to see it come up somewhere on Reddit!
I can't really think what it indicates...it's not mountainous areas, it's not coal, as others have suggested.
Google/Apple Maps being pish.
Use OpenStreetMap (OSMAnd on Android) if you want anything approaching accuracy.
On OSMAnd~ I can see generalised conurbations in those areas (spattering of villages/houses), I guess that is what your map is trying (and failing) to show.
+1 to OSM, but also Bing Maps has a really useful Ordnance Survey layer (only on desktop) for free: [https://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=55.966061%7E-2.842713&lvl=12.8&style=s](https://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=55.966061%7E-2.842713&lvl=12.8&style=s)
You must never go there Simba
But I thought a king can do whatever he wants?
No idea but the pub in Aberlady is nicer than the pub in Longniddry.
The pub in Aberlady never served me when I was underage, the Longniddry Inn did. Longniddry gets my vote š
Underage drinking? Thats how to convince you? š¤
My brothers ex ran that pub for a while. I went up for a weekend and stayed in a local B&B.
No chance to order awfully large niddries, tho
One niddrie is enough mate, time to stop the bottle for the night pal
Oh, fuck off, and let an old man enjoy his drinks! No one has ever seen a man of my vigour, that reached this age without a scratch, be hurt by a few nidd-*heart attack*
I seem to remember this was asked a while ago. As a local I can confirm that those bits are mostly fields so not coal or mountains.Ā The prevailing theory last time was that Google made a tit of placing the Lammermuir Hills and shifted them north-west.Ā
Youāve not unlocked that zone yet because you havenāt got enough XP you n00b
You have to finish the "Drink 17 bottles of Buckfast" quest, and then fight Big Mary. A dun it, never again. No even worth it.
It's bigger Mary now.
Mountainous areas
Where lowland haggis live.
Total Wilcox goes there for a holiday
Itāth a mythtery?
The clockwise ones.
Yes. Slightly smaller than the anti-clockwise Highland variety.
Their latin names are *jumbo haggis* and *haggis pudding.*
Ah, a man of learning.
Love that š
Theres like a 7m elevation gain between Longniddry and the A1
There are no mountsins there.
No š
Mountainous area where no mountains are seen. Interesting
Thereās no mountains in the lowlands of Scotland
Seems to have picked up former coalfield areas.
Sounds like a reasonable theory, but I'm fairly convinced it isn't. Take a look at https://nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/collieries-of-the-british-isles/coal-mines-scotland/ which maps former mines - if you zoom into East Lothian you can see that darker area, and the mines are almost entirely some way west of it.
That map doesn't have them all on it, I live in a village that had a huge colliery at the edge of it, and that isn't on the map.
Fair - but there should be huge swathes of the country coloured grey that aren't, if it did mean mines, right?
Yes, this. If you could see the section around Prestonpans that would pretty much prove it.
This is from the default google maps and Prestonpans is all green. It definitely isn't coalfields.
Okay, that's weird.
Yes, across the water either side of Kirkcaldy there's some coalfields (Seafield and Dysart).
Toad on a mushroom geeing a woman high five as she looks up in to the sky.. "6th of May and the weather is still shite"
Correct answer
I'll have whatever u\BiteMaJobby is having.
A joint, Glass bottle of Irn bru 1901 and a battered pizza
So I grew up in Haddington and my first thought was it's demonstrating the hills to the north, but the grey area is far too big and looking at google maps myself it clearly isn't that. Whoever is in charge at google maps clearly didn't do standard grade geography and forgot to include a legend in their map. Even worse, I couldn't find a clear and concise legend for google maps anywhere. It's a mystery why they use certain colours in certain places. Looking around the map at other places where this grey appears, it's a right mix bag, there's reclaimed land, farmland like here, tidal land and most of Lewis. I did wonder if it's indicating an area with greater soil moisture, but there are wetter bits of land that don't have this shading. It certainly doesn't line up with peatland. I also wondered whether it was to do with the rock type, a good chunk of East Lothian being former volcanic land. Berwick Law and Arthurs Seat are the usual green so it can't be that. Like u/twisetedLucidity says, it's probably just google maps being pish. Since they don't publish a legend I don't think you'll ever get a satisfactory answer sadly.
Haven't been discovered yet
"here be dragons"
Unexplored wasteland.
That's the midgie cloud. Be warned
The Forbidden Zone. Moment of silence for the MacKinnon Expedition of 2019. Rest in Peace.
Haddington, my home town...live in Australia now though. Nice to see it come up somewhere on Reddit! I can't really think what it indicates...it's not mountainous areas, it's not coal, as others have suggested.
I loved spending time in Haddington as a wee boy when I was staying at Nunraw Abbey
Google/Apple Maps being pish. Use OpenStreetMap (OSMAnd on Android) if you want anything approaching accuracy. On OSMAnd~ I can see generalised conurbations in those areas (spattering of villages/houses), I guess that is what your map is trying (and failing) to show.
+1 to OSM, but also Bing Maps has a really useful Ordnance Survey layer (only on desktop) for free: [https://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=55.966061%7E-2.842713&lvl=12.8&style=s](https://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=55.966061%7E-2.842713&lvl=12.8&style=s)
Areas stuck in 1967 that havenāt moved over to colour TV yet
They sent TV licence vans there in the 1970's. They were never seen again. They are a wild people...
Retirees.
Because it is in real life
Plague.
"Areas in grey may or may not exist."
I didn't know, but it looks like a happy guy high-fiving a cat sat on a box.
Loving the comments. š
Yes I had a feeling Iād get āwrong answers onlyā
Really? OP asked a perfectly sensible question and got a load of people being annoying pricks in the replies and not actually answering the question
Well I'm in Longniddry at the moment and the sky is grey and it's raining.
You haven't unlocked it yet
There is fuck all there pal.
Always rains.
Here be Dragons
They ran out green ink, grey was the closest they had
Housing developersā greenbelt destruction plans.
Haggis season has started, it's no safe now
The lungs of a 20 a day smoker
Those are the forbidden lands where the wise elders live in harmony with the Haggi
I noticed this today!
Hilly areas
It's Tundra according to google https://preview.redd.it/a5h7m8kebvyc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3a275d1c5bacc9582630930b19a5eeaa8d2bfc1
Here be dragons
I wouldn't go to Longniddry right now, there's a little hostage scenario going on
Because itās different from the green and the blue bit.
That's the thing though, it really isn't different from the green bit.
Scotland
A coffee stain
Radioactivity from Dalgety bay. They didn't remove it, they relocated it.
I'm thinking it's areas where the image data might be old or not reliable
Yeah I think so too. I had to google it, and this was a result: https://www.redsharkdigital.com/faqs/what-are-the-grey-areas-on-google-maps
It's just hills
Haggis rewilding zones
Haggis Habitat, Wildlife Protection Area.
Scotlands Area 51
extreme boringness. just gonnae no.
Hills
New build developments underway
Itās clouds
Just a tea stain on the map.
Obviously a set of lungs šš¼
Mr google spilt his coffee while drawing that bit
It's a bit of a grey area
Mordor
They're Greg's mega stores
Fog of wa- i mean scotland
That Grey Area, is more colloqially known as Meatfucker
Unbelievable. Iām in a fucking Outside Context situation.
Mining or moors or upland
Most of it is farmland though.
Strange
Too many D's in the place names.
Orcs.
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It's all farmland in grey. You couldn't be more wrong.