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Very cool piece of work. Little bit weird that Springfield gets to be the other illustrated city in Massachusetts when Worcester is the second biggest city in t

Very cool piece of work. Little bit weird that Springfield gets to be the other illustrated city in Massachusetts when Worcester is the second biggest city in the entire region after Boston.

interloxia 3y ago
The Simpsons is culturally more relevant for an Aussie, and I would assume a Kiwi, than whatever is not Boston.
- constantly 3y ago
  There must be at least 40 Springfields in the USA. Given Massachusetts's early statehood, I wouldn't be surprised if Springfield, MA was the "first" Springfield in USA, but are you thinking the artist illustrated all the Springfields because of the Simpsons?
  - Anechoic 3y ago
    It’s the first, largest and (unfortunately) poorest Springfield. (I’m writing this from Springfield right now)
    - zamadatix 3y ago
      Springfield MO is larger. About as poor, but Springfield MA ekes that out still.
      - Anechoic 3y ago
        Yep, you’re correct, I was using old numbers - Springfield MA lost some population while Springfield MO grew. But we still have Dr. Suess!
  - Mountain_Skies 3y ago
    Suddenly I have an urge to make a Voronoi map of the US using each Springfield as the capital of its own state.
Mountain_Skies 3y ago
How close are they to other named places? Back in the 1990s my father was astonished to see his little hometown in Canada on a map of North America but it is in an area with few other settlements so even though it isn't a seat of any level of government, it's still the "major" population center for the area. Meanwhile around Toronto cities 50x larger didn't make the map.
Someone 3y ago
Just as deciding what roads to show on a map, deciding what labels to place and where on a map is a hard problem. There may not be sufficient room for it in the location where you want to place it. If so, do you move it ‘a bit’, maybe also move another label, which means having to move another, etc. or do you leave it out? Worcester likely is too close to Boston to have room for it at the chosen level of detail. For what it’s worth, when I zoom in on Massachusetts in Apple Maps (which seems to have finer grained zoom levels than OpenStreetMap.org or maps.Google.com), the order in which cities appear is - Boston - Springfield - New Bedford - Worcester

Very cool piece of work. Little bit weird that Springfield gets to be the other illustrated city in Massachusetts when Worcester is the second biggest city in the entire region after Boston.

interloxia 3y ago

The Simpsons is culturally more relevant for an Aussie, and I would assume a Kiwi, than whatever is not Boston.

constantly 3y ago
There must be at least 40 Springfields in the USA. Given Massachusetts's early statehood, I wouldn't be surprised if Springfield, MA was the "first" Springfield in USA, but are you thinking the artist illustrated all the Springfields because of the Simpsons?
- Anechoic 3y ago
  It’s the first, largest and (unfortunately) poorest Springfield. (I’m writing this from Springfield right now)
  - zamadatix 3y ago
    Springfield MO is larger. About as poor, but Springfield MA ekes that out still.
    - Anechoic 3y ago
      Yep, you’re correct, I was using old numbers - Springfield MA lost some population while Springfield MO grew. But we still have Dr. Suess!
- Mountain_Skies 3y ago
  Suddenly I have an urge to make a Voronoi map of the US using each Springfield as the capital of its own state.

Mountain_Skies 3y ago

How close are they to other named places? Back in the 1990s my father was astonished to see his little hometown in Canada on a map of North America but it is in an area with few other settlements so even though it isn't a seat of any level of government, it's still the "major" population center for the area. Meanwhile around Toronto cities 50x larger didn't make the map.

Someone 3y ago

Just as deciding what roads to show on a map, deciding what labels to place and where on a map is a hard problem. There may not be sufficient room for it in the location where you want to place it. If so, do you move it ‘a bit’, maybe also move another label, which means having to move another, etc. or do you leave it out? Worcester likely is too close to Boston to have room for it at the chosen level of detail. For what it’s worth, when I zoom in on Massachusetts in Apple Maps (which seems to have finer grained zoom levels than OpenStreetMap.org or maps.Google.com), the order in which cities appear is - Boston - Springfield - New Bedford - Worcester