"Census Dotmap" Topic
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| T Callahan | 23 Jan 2013 8:20 a.m. PST |
Here is a link to the "census dotmap" created using 2010 Canadian and US census data. One dot for each person, 341+ million dots. Zoom in to see yourself or out to see the settlement patterns of the last 400 years. Zooming in does require some extra time to load. bmander.com/dotmap/index.html Terry |
 Parzival  | 23 Jan 2013 10:23 a.m. PST |
That's amazing. I could make a reasonable guess as to my town, but without other features I couldn't quite pinpoint my neighborhood. |
| Roderick Robertson | 23 Jan 2013 10:39 a.m. PST |
I could get to the big blank area where I live, but couldn't narrow it down to a particular dot… |
| The Tin Dictator | 23 Jan 2013 11:50 a.m. PST |
I think they counted my dog too. |
| Streitax | 23 Jan 2013 12:01 p.m. PST |
Interesting, veerrrry interesting. |
 etotheipi  | 23 Jan 2013 4:19 p.m. PST |
My pixel is too fat. I've lost weight since then. |
| Altius | 25 Jan 2013 8:11 a.m. PST |
Wow, that's fascinating. My home state looks so bare. Several years ago, I wrote a program that utilized The US Census Bureau's TIGER database to locate people on a map anywhere in the country, similar to this. That thing was such a hog. Now you can do pretty much the same thing with Google without taxing bandwidth. |
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