Precipitation and People - USA - [2381x1598][OC] mashup

brendonm · 2 months

My thought was that outside of major cities it would basically be population density = rain. Maybe that isn't true.

Yeah, I don't think that assumption is true. The area bounded roughly by Birmingham/Montgomery AL and the Gulf coast gets a lot of rain and is relatively sparsely populated, as is the lower Mississippi Valley. The Ohio Valley/Great Lake corridor gets less precip but is highly populated. A ratio ("division" like you say below) type of map would show that rain and population don't correlate east of the 100th meridian.

bb9496 · 2 months

You could always start here: http://www.last.fm/music/Grouplove/+similar

Evanferrall · 2 months

The rock formation on the right side is much too close to the edge, making it feel cramped on that edge. I'd suggest cropping in to eliminate it or clone stamping it out.

I agree. I like the formation though so maybe try uncropping on the right.

brendonm · 2 months

outside of major cities it would basically be population density = rain

That is the idea I'm shooting for. The map above is a mix of this population density map overlayed on precipitation. So, anything white is not populated. Notice how population drops at the yellow/green border.

brendonm · 2 months

Something like this? http://i.minus.com/ibpXEukyAojO2q.jpg

Same sources, different layer blending.

brendonm · 2 months

This is a mashup I put together using this precipition map that I modified.

Population is a combination of this map and this map reworked in Photoshop.

It is all wrapped up in a recolored version of this wikipedia map. I didn't do any rendering, it is all just script-kiddie work in Photoshop.

You_Only_Live_Once · 2 months

Norway is awesome, but Alaska has a huge volume of stuff like this, so maybe you're being modest. It is just hard to access for most people, like the Kichatna Spires and other gems hidden deep in the wilderness. I have a shot kind of similar to this (youtube video) from the Denali Highway.

Norway is definitely a r/villageporn champion though.

j3pr0ks · 2 months

I spent a few minutes on it.

brendonm · 3 months

I've never seen it mentioned anywhere, but is the beginning of this song an homage to Aldo Nova's Fantasy?

brendonm · 3 months

Thanks!

econleech · 3 months

Try these links. It's scheduled to reopen May 25.

Some people can have altitude issues. I come from a mountain state so I spend time at altitude periodically, but there were some people at the top complaining about the lack of air. If you start to get sick, head back down.

econleech · 3 months

Mount Evans is the highest paved road in the U.S. My car made it. You'll need to make sure the road is open. There is an entrance fee for the road as well.

econleech · 3 months

...only if you include a 22 mile round trip hike to the summit of Whitney and back.

brendonm · 3 months

I should probably clarify that I remixed the image in the linked source above to create the submission. Any data errors will be the same because it is the same image. I just stripped the original of context and added some depth in photoshop. It's less useful but looks more organic.

brendonm · 3 months

Thanks!

brendonm · 3 months

Nothing more than photoshop.

brendonm · 3 months

The OP is a version I put together from this source (with legend): Tonnage on Highways, Railroads, and Inland Waterways: 2007

reprobatefields · 3 months

The first map is pretty small, so it looks like a grid, but it is actually settlement along the Platte River, US-34, I-70, and the Arkansas River. They make long lines of lights ending at the Front Range. Large towns at semi-regular intervals along these lines make it look like a grid.

Here's a zoomable map with labels.

Mind_Virus · 3 months

It's near Tuxtla Gutierrez in southern Mexico.

brendonm · 4 months

We're also being slightly Mercatored here.

DrRichardCranium · 4 months

All them pesky teet sucking natives need to go.

Also military payroll.

DrRichardCranium · 4 months

Picking which states to sell off is more complicated than that list. New Mexico gets so much Federal money because of the national laboratories there. Alaska has few people but 2 AFB and 3 Army posts, plus Coast Guard, so there's a lot of DoD money going there.

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