Illustrations of data from our master list of pulsars Table D.1. Top: celestial distribution in Galactic coordinates. The blue lines show the observed proper motion μ′ and the red lines the correction due to Galactic rotation (for nominal distance D′), in 0.5 Myr. Below left: nominal velocities in the celestial plane. The circle indicates the median value for v_⊥ for the projection of a Maxwellian: , for σ = 265 km s^-1. Below right: cumulative distributions of the observed , and of v_⊥, blue: according to Hobbs et al. (2005), red: according to our best solution, with the p-value according to a one-sided Kolmogorov-Smirnov test that the observed distribution is drawn from the theoretical one.