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Some things I'd love to see: - a difference metric between this coverage and the actual map (and country breakdown of same) - a weighted version ([1]) with we
by evrydayhustling 3y ago
Some things I'd love to see:
- a difference metric between this coverage and the actual map (and country breakdown of same)
- a weighted version ([1]) with weights chosen to optimize the above distance metric.
The latter is in itself is a fun math problem -- the gradient on such an objective clearly exists (and the numerical gradient is fairly cheap). But can you prove anything about its structure? Is there a closed form that could be derived from the map information?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_Voronoi_diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_Voronoi_diagram
- _Microft 3y agoWhat I'd suggest trying is to use the accessibility of the terrain (there are such maps out there) and find the closest capital city according to that. This is basically a global travel time map and I would not be too surprised if that matches some borders rather well.