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Its interesting, I've always been asked what the 'official' definition of Silicon Valley is, or if some specific city is 'in' Silicon Valley or out. Like say, R
by jboy55 9y ago
Its interesting, I've always been asked what the 'official' definition of Silicon Valley is, or if some specific city is 'in' Silicon Valley or out. Like say, Redwood City.
By looking at this map here, https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/plume-minimal/index.html# https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/plume-minimal/index.html# you can easily tell by wether the city has a Superfund site.
- 2bit 9y agoThis data is only for cities in Santa Clara County: This map shows the sites of toxic chemical "plumes" in Santa Clara County, CA
- jboy55 9y agoBesides one in SF (and a couple in Oakland), all the "Superfund" sites in the "Bay Area" are in Santa Clara County. https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=33cebcdfdd1b4c3a8b51d416956c41f1&query=Superfund_National_Priorities_List__NPL__Sites_with_Status_Information_7557,SITE_EPA_ID=%27CAD048634059%27 https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=...
- rconti 9y agoSilicon Valley should be basically Santa Clara Valley, but in practice, it basically means everywhere including SF and the east bay.
- eaurouge 9y ago> but in practice, it basically means everywhere including SF and the east bay Silicon Valley includes neither SF nor the East Bay, not even in practice.
- rconti 9y agoYou must not read much national or international media.
- grzm 9y ago> "As more high-tech companies were established across San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley, and then north towards the Bay Area's two other major cities, San Francisco and Oakland, the "Silicon Valley" has come to have two definitions: a geographic one, referring to Santa Clara County, and a metonymical one, referring to all high-tech businesses in the Bay Area or even in the United States." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley
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