Mapping the Census: A Dot for Every Person
Brandon Martin-Anderson, a graduate student at MIT’s Changing Places lab, was tired of seeing maps of U.S. population density cluttered by roads, bridges, county borders and other impediments.
Fortunately for us, he has the technological expertise to transform block data from the 2010 Census into points on a map. One point per person, and nothing else.
Read more. [Images: Brandon Martin-Anderson]
fold it in half for people vs. not as many people
Map tiles with 1,000+ residents
That’s the contiguous United States, colored at each point by the zoom level of the smallest enclosing Google Maps tile wherein 1,000 or more people live, according to 2010 block-level Census data. Periwinkle represents zoom level 14+, navy blue 13, yellow 12, dark green 11, and so on.
via datapointed
Map of 1914 population density for each city block.
I want this for today. Or I want to learn how to do this.
along the same lines as “we could all live in new hampshire with a population density of brooklyn” -
If the percentage of parking lot area in the county (0.44%) is scaled to the area occupied by the conterminous United States, the entire states of Connecticut, and Massachusetts (12,550 + 20,305 = 32,855 km2 ) would be paved over with parking lots.
so parking lots will take more space.
via How We Drive
roomthily: spatially, with respect to space (save the words)
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