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Oh my god! I didn't know that the the united states is literally crisscrossed by roads in a relatively square grid fashion, as in [1]. This kind of detail was i
by vlasev 13y ago
Oh my god! I didn't know that the the united states is literally crisscrossed by roads in a relatively square grid fashion, as in [1]. This kind of detail was invisible in the previous version. Here is a frightening image of China [2]. Each of these patches is a town!
This update of the maps is amazing!
[1]https://maps.google.com/?ll=47.115467,-97.306595&spn=0.292982,0.837021&t=h&z=11 https://maps.google.com/?ll=47.115467,-97.306595&spn=0.29298...
[2]https://maps.google.com/?ll=38.002656,115.434723&spn=0.678488,1.674042&t=k&z=10 https://maps.google.com/?ll=38.002656,115.434723&spn=0.67848...
- wikwocket 13y agoA lot of the land in the western U.S. was given out by the government in square plots to anyone willing to settle there and plat some crops/trees. I believe this was under the homestead acts.
- maxerickson 13y agoThe road network is somewhat a result of the land survey that was used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System I've messed around with building 'road pressure' maps using the Tiger data from the census, in states like Michigan (at least in the lower peninsula), there is very little land that is not within about 1/2 mile of a public road.