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Old Posted Sep 6, 2011, 8:30 AM
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i hope you don't mind an unsolicited contribution ... i think i got the scale right - but it's a little unclear what the logic is behind the coloring. i'm assuming developed areas, no farmland, no rural areas, no parkland, etc.
Very nice. The scale compared to the other places looks about right.

I just have a minor error to point out and I know this in part because you didnt include my neighborhood.

If you zoom into this area on Google Earth or even Google Maps, you will find that they are very developed.
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/7...bansprawl3.png

Many of the areas I highlighted are heavily wooded so from space you might not see them unless you zoom in.
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Old Posted Sep 6, 2011, 8:56 AM
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Nice job mthd on the Bay Area map, but you forgot to fill in Santa Cruz, and forgot to include Santa Rosa (and missed some outer east bay stuff, as dimondpark pointed out). These maps are great, good for comparison and I like how you can really see how topography has influenced development patterns.
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Old Posted Sep 6, 2011, 10:40 AM
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I have the Bay Area completed which I will post at a later time. Please provide links rather than images if you want to show your city in this thread.
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Next up, one of the worlds most livable cities, and the City of Angels (which quite frankly is just ridiculously big)

Vancouver, BC
City Population: 578,041
Metro Population: 2,443,000


Los Angeles, CA
City Population: 3,792,621
Metro Population: 17,786,419 (CSA, includes Long Beach, Riverside)
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Wow! basically all of LA is red except for LAX and the mountains lol
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Wow! basically all of LA is red except for LAX and the mountains lol
Most impressive of all is that its massive yet relatively densely populated.
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I hope at some point you can do Chicago-Milwaukee-Rockford
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South Florida metro should be relatively easy to do (hint hint)
There's very little between the Atlantic and the Everglades that isn't developed.
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Old Posted Sep 7, 2011, 8:21 PM
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I hope at some point you can do Chicago-Milwaukee-Rockford
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South Florida metro should be relatively easy to do (hint hint)
There's very little between the Atlantic and the Everglades that isn't developed.
Also already done, will be posting soon
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Great work and yeah, LA is very huge. As big as some smaller countries, I think.

Here's a bunch of ideas in case you don't know of a city to do next: Sydney, Sao Paolo, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Toronto, London, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Lyon, Glasgow, Edmonton, Ottawa, Dallas-Fort Worth, Boston, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Rome, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Minsk, Istanbul, and Mumbai.
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Just a correction on the Vancouver map: the 2,116,581 population figure is for the CMA, but the area shown includes areas beyond that, adding up to approximately 2,443,000 people (Greater Vancouver + Abbotsford & Mission).
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Just a correction on the Vancouver map: the 2,116,581 population figure is for the CMA, but the area shown includes areas beyond that, adding up to approximately 2,443,000 people (Greater Vancouver + Abbotsford & Mission).
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I do enjoy maps. Back in my grad school days, we had to map out urban areas for the whole globe for modeling purposes. There are a lot more sohpisticated options out there these days.

Are you familiar with GRUMP (Global Urban-Rural Mapping Project), from Columbia? If you have any GIS skills, you could use their data to do this relatively simply for the whole globe (although you might not have the Google Earth satellite base as easily).

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/

Take a look at all the stuff they have on there. In particular, the maps done by density. Not sure what your threshold was for drawing the urban/rural line, but it's certainly telling to look at a few different ones. Check out the sample "low elevation coastal zone" maps - http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/lecz.jsp and the "urban extents" maps, which (I believe) you could get at 10 meter resolution. http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/wdc...how=population (summary PDFs)
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Cheers for that bunt, some good info there that should come in pretty handy.
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Next, New Zealand's capital, and the beautiful 'Windy City'

Wellington, New Zealand
Metro Population: 389,700


Chicago, IL
note: Chicago map replaced by Chicago-Milwaukee Combined map
Milwaukee Metro Population: 1,751,316
Chicago Metro Population: 9,804,845
Conurbation Population: ~11,600,000

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Thank you for that. It seems at least with US maps you have been CSA but in Chicago's case you have used Metro. I was hoping for an apples to apples comparison. I know the US designations can be confusing. Any chance of getting the CSA for Chicago for comparisons sake?

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Need to add Kenosha/Pleasant Prairie Wisconsin to the Chicago map. . .

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These are great. Don't worry about the populations too much...the maps are what's interesting.


Could you do the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area sometime?
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Need to add Kenosha/Pleasant Prairie Wisconsin to the Chicago map
Lol.. I knew someone would mention Kenosha etc. I realized once the map was finished - I'll fix it up later.

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These are great. Don't worry about the populations too much...the maps are what's interesting.

Could you do the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area sometime?
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I took the three largest of your maps and put them on top of each other.

Blue = Los Angeles
Yellow = Houston
Red = Paris

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Cool. Goddamn, Houston is big...
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I took the three largest of your maps and put them on top of each other.

Blue = Los Angeles
Yellow = Houston
Red = Paris

I like what you've done there, feel free to add more of a similar notion in future
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