Now that’s an amazing map

[Mik]

Wow. The concentration of services and industry - of all sorts. I'm wondering how they determine GDP for the purposes of this map.

[89th]

That's also a map of which areas (orange) would starve first if the blue area stops farming!

[Jolly]

@89th said in Now that’s an amazing map:

That's also a map of which areas (orange) would starve first if the blue area stops farming!

First thought I had...

[Horace]

I guess they use the tax reporting address of corporations as the point from which that corporations contributions to GDP comes. Which would be fun with graphics and little else.

[jon-nyc]

@Jolly said in Now that’s an amazing map:

@89th said in Now that’s an amazing map:

That's also a map of which areas (orange) would starve first if the blue area stops farming!

First thought I had...

First thought I had was that you were going to make that point.

[Klaus]

I guess the percentage of the population living in those areas, while less than 50%, is also a quite significant fraction of the total population.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Now that’s an amazing map:

@Jolly said in Now that’s an amazing map:

@89th said in Now that’s an amazing map:

That's also a map of which areas (orange) would starve first if the blue area stops farming!

First thought I had...

First thought I had was that you were going to make that point.

Ring it, mine the periphery, try to cut off the inbound ships and let the rats eat each other.

Should only take a few weeks.

[Copper]

That is where the action is. I think I have worked in all the orange dots except Seattle.

[jon-nyc]

@Klaus said in Now that’s an amazing map:

I guess the percentage of the population living in those areas, while less than 50%, is also a quite significant fraction of the total population.

Yes. That’s why color coded county level maps showing voting patterns are so misleading.

[jon-nyc]

@Copper said in Now that’s an amazing map:

That is where the action is. I think I have worked in all the orange dots except Seattle.

Me all except Portland.

[jon-nyc]

Oh - and I’ve flown over all the blue bits.

[taiwan_girl]

I saw a similar map (which I cannot find now. aargh) which compared the GDP of Silicon Valley to the fifty states (did not include our 51st state - Canada. LOL).

Anyway, the GDP of Silicon Valley was higher than the GPD of at least 35 states.

But, as was pointed out by folks like @89th and @Jolly, it is a "symbiosis" relationship. One would not survive with out the other.