• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    My heart wants to like this on principle because that’s how geography should be divided, but it looks like garbage. I never really stopped before to appreciate how tidy and professional those arbitrary perpendicular lines look.

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      6 days ago

      I guess it worked for Kansas City, right? Be prepared for NYC NY, vs NYC CT

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        6 days ago

        I get why rivers and creeks and streams were historically convenient borders, but when we started building cities along them it got weird. Then some mf’er invented the bridge and it all went to hell.

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    6 days ago

    What specific geographic borders were used? Or is it just sort of random to look organic?

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        I can definitely see the Mississippi River still, so I don’t think it’s watersheds. Unless they’re using peaks and troughs both. I’m sure there’s a term for it. My understanding of water shed is that it means everything that flows into a river so a river would be in the middle. So the borders of watersheds are more like mountains than rivers.

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    6 days ago

    I’d like to see a map with cultural boundaries. As a resident of NE Florida I can say we might as well be part of Georgia.

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    7 days ago

    It looks so… gloopy!

    I like how some states are basically identical. Florida is a given and NH is just kinda like “what happened to you guys?”

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      6 days ago

      NH missed the opportunity of the Merrimack River as a border…… plus the Saint Laurence Seaway up north, oui?

    • pseudo@jlai.lu
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      6 days ago

      I find it beautiful. Something in my subcountious doesn’t compute borders in straight line

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    7 days ago

    As always Florida is Florida It’s a law of nature nothing before nor after can be Florida, Florida is eternal just like the geriatrics in there nursing homes.

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    7 days ago

    As someone of the earth sciences it is my opinion that whoever drew this has exactly zero understanding of “natural geographic borders”.