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ezmack@lemmy.ml to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Land use in the US

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Land use in the US

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ezmack@lemmy.ml to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    I have examined this abstraction of a map thoroughly.

    I do not see any garbage dumps, recycling facilities, sewage processing, cemeteries, energy production, water production…

    I could carry on, but this map means almost nothing with all sorts of factors missing.

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      Without digging in to the numbers further than just looking at this map, could this be because the relative areas of the factors you listed didn’t pass a threshold to make it? @ezmack what data source was used for this?

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        Bloomberg article https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/#xj4y7vzkg

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        Not OP, but I’d think cemeteries should outweigh golf courses in land area.

        Feel free to prove me wrong though.

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          I think you might underestimate golf course land use, as well as miss that a lot of that mightve just been counted with the surrounding neighborhoods, since that’s more of a community service

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      Urban-commercial

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      its also missing the fact that tons of animal pastures is on federal land.

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      Those take up less space than you’d think

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        Well, I grew up on 60 acres with like 18 horses and 25 goats. Can’t say I’ve visited every farm out there to know how large or how cramped they might be.

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