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@tsyum @davidho Yes! I'd like to see how much space in total streets and car park take. Did I miss something? I only find "rural highways". What about the massive use of urban space?

@davidho "wayerhaeuser"?

@mdione @davidho
timberland company which owns nearly 12,400,000 acres of timberlands in the U.S.

@davidho Fascinating, thanks for posting this

@davidho do I understand correctly that vegetables and cereals crops are all within the 'food we eat' area?

@adndebanane @davidho i don't think i it's an actual map. just a visualisation of scale, as if we put all the land used for each purpose together

@davidho and I wonder how much that wildfires box has grown in the past ~6 years

@davidho Interesting!
At least it's not a Mercator projection.

@davidho to be fair, not all cow pasture land would be good crop land. cows can process grasses that make near-zero nutrition for us humans

but still, maybe we could cut back on the beef, eh

@errorbody @joshg @davidho Not efficiently. A high percentage of "grazing" land in the west is just rocks.

@davidho Random thought: If the population of the people running these categories were also distributed in this ratio, Trump would have won by a much larger margin.

@davidho lol @ "Rural highways".

@davidho Whoa. Wait, so do the urban housing/commercial sections include all the parking lots too?

@davidho Wow, that is nowhere near enough devoted to maple syrup.

@davidho I couldn't find an equivalent for Canada, but I looked at some figures, and wow, is it different:

All agriculture (Pasture and cropland) comes to 6.2% of the land area only.

Nearly 40% of the country is forested, and of that, over 90% is in public hands.

The total urban area, large and small, is 0.27 %

And the Arctic and subartic covers over 40%.

The rest? Roads, bodies of water, etc etc.

We are a very unusual country.

Oh, and less than 11% of the land is in private hands. This percentage does not include land held under various Inuit, First Nation and Metis Land claim agreements and more. For instance, under 4 agreements, Inuit hold title to about 40% of Canada's land mass, including in Nunavut, the NWT and Labrador.

@davidho No category for Indigenous land there?

@davidho that’s great, don’t believe I’ve seen that one before.

@davidho this is why I went vegan in the 2018. Imagine returning that land to nature. It would buy us time #extinction

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Land Value Tax would fix this.

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generalizations are pretty funny.
ok sure, california's central valley is only 1% of america's farmland, but like 20% of our food is grown there.

also, i'm from the mid-atlantic.
Baltimore, to be specific, which is part of a literal megalopolis that stretches from DC to Boston. on this map, portions of that area say 'rural housing' lmfao

https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/how-much-of-us-food-comes-from-california-central-valley/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis

@rustoleumlove it's not a map specifically saying these things are predominantly in these areas. It's showing the proportional land use of all these things if they were superimposed on the US map. Some of them happen to be centered around areas where that land use type is predominant, but it's not supposed to be locationally accurate

@davidho that's a lot of skate parks

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Can’t help but notice that Florida and Texas are still worthless places I would not want to go…

@davidho Pained that "golf" is even a category here

@davidho I don't think this is actually all that accurate though? It categorizes the Rocky Mountains as cow pastures and doesn't recognize Iowa as the corn-void it is.

@davidho When people start talking about landfills (especially things like "Do you know how much waste we generate from discarded windmill blades? We're gonna run out of room!")... I think about maps like this.

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Excellent!

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Have a look at this one:

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it would be super interesting to see similar maps of mexico and canada alongside this!

@davidho @KatSteelwing
I think about this map a lot.

@davidho truly an r/dataisbeautiful moment

@davidho I live in corn syrup. I think. Might be wheat exports.

@davidho tim