Brandon Martin-Anderson composed a zoomable map that shows “every person counted by the 2010 US and 2011 Canadian censuses”:
Why?
I wanted an image of human settlement patterns unmediated by proxies like city boundaries, arterial roads, state lines, &c. Also, it was an interesting challenge.
Get lost in his “Census Dotmap” here.
(Hat tip: Jaymi Heimbuch)
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