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Land use in the US (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it's clearly not broken down by state. Surely it would be nonsensical to put all of airports in the country in a giant square in southern Texas, right? That's not what this map is intending to say.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know this map isn’t clearly broken down by state, which is (part of) why this map struggles to communicate what it’s trying to say IMO. I think the first map in the linked Bloomberg article (with land use data broken down on a more granular level) does a better job at communicating the same trends