I made a county map

[TimTurner]

Commentary? Thoughts? et cetera

 

[Undeadmuffin]

That JPEG tho...

 

[TimTurner]

That JPEG tho...

i saved it in PNG format...

 

[Undeadmuffin]

i saved it in PNG format...

There is lots of artifacts, while the map could be used as reference it will be extremely difficult to modify and color it

 

[TimTurner]

There is lots of artifacts, while the map could be used as reference it will be extremely difficult to modify and color it

The original map was too big so I had to put in it in imgur. Perhaps that's the problem.

 

[TimTurner]

I have broke this map up in four (South, West, Midwest, Northeast).

 

[Cheer]

Very nice work. Pretty and comprehensive! Maybe save it as an svg if it was made in a vector program?

 

[TimTurner]

Very nice work. Pretty and comprehensive! Maybe save it as an svg if it was made in a vector program?

Made it all in paint.

 

[TimTurner]

 

[TimTurner]

Had to get creative to get this under 500 MB. Presumably that's why it failed to upload while all the others did. In any case it was fixed so no need to worry now.

 

[Noravea]

Very well made! It's nice to see this level of dedication here on AH.com to a project like this.

 

[Qhapaq Inka]

I've always wondered, is there any particular reason that states like Iowa or Georgia are divvied up into like 8 million different counties? California has the largest population in the country but has only 58 counties.

 

[TimTurner]

Very well made! It's nice to see this level of dedication here on AH.com to a project like this.

Most of the work was done last year. I decided to finish it recently. Here we are now, it is done.

 

[Magyarország]

I've always wondered, is there any particular reason that states like Iowa or Georgia are divvied up into like 8 million different counties? California has the largest population in the country but has only 58 counties.

My Iowan wife says that it's exact because of the low population density that the state has so many counties: It was easier to govern such a spread-out population with many small counties. For example, our county has around 1200 people. Big counties would have been troublesome because of the long travel distances between communities and farmsteads. Nowadays, the distances between towns in all directions is about a 30 minute car-ride.

 

[TimTurner]

I've always wondered, is there any particular reason that states like Iowa or Georgia are divvied up into like 8 million different counties? California has the largest population in the country but has only 58 counties.

Don't want to get too off topic but here are some links that might help.
http://news.wabe.org/post/why-ga-has-second-highest-number-counties-us

 

[Qhapaq Inka]

My Iowan wife says that it's exact because of the low population density that the state has so many counties: It was easier to govern such a spread-out population with many small counties. For example, our county has around 1200 people. Big counties would have been troublesome because of the long travel distances between communities and farmsteads. Nowadays, the distances between towns in all directions is about a 30 minute car-ride.

Don't want to get too off topic but here are some links that might help.
http://news.wabe.org/post/why-ga-has-second-highest-number-counties-us

Really interesting, and that makes a lot of sense. Thank you!

 

[TimTurner]

VA was the trickiest part of this map.

 

[Bjornhattan]

VA was the trickiest part of this map.

I just don't understand why the feel the need for all those independent cities. They just clog up the map and also make it hard to see any trends because in the US the Republicans are bound to win most areas if you split off their cities.

 

[TimTurner]

I just don't understand why the feel the need for all those independent cities. They just clog up the map and also make it hard to see any trends because in the US the Republicans are bound to win most areas if you split off their cities.

VA's independent cities are too numerous to ignore.