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Maybe because the land in the US was mostly divided up by 1900? There wasn't any particular reason to divide lots that way a hundred years ago?
by ktRolster 10y ago
Maybe because the land in the US was mostly divided up by 1900? There wasn't any particular reason to divide lots that way a hundred years ago?
- adventured 10y agoThe farm land owners - which tend to have very large plots of land - could still choose to divide their own farms that way today if it were optimal. I think it's as simple as the straight-line grids provide a good enough solution (the 85% scenario), with a few attributes that are superior in terms of ease of maintenance, surveying and land ownership division. In the very near future those grids will gain another advantage: they'll be far easier to outline when it comes to robotic-heavy farming. The wavy, more tightly packed hex alignment would be far messier.