The Maps and Geography Thread

[creekster]

I'm just wondering how you are sucking less water from Lake Mead. You should just give your piss water to whoever is downstream (i.e., California) rather than recycling it. That is what we do here with Houston.

Vegas has a lot of ground water, surprisingly enough, so they are depleting an aquifer.

[falafel]

Vegas has a lot of ground water, surprisingly enough, so they are depleting an aquifer.

Dwight can chime in here, but technically the ground water is from other parts of the state. They don't exactly love us depleting the aquifer.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Dwight can chime in here, but technically the ground water is from other parts of the state. They don't exactly love us depleting the aquifer.

Just a plan at this stage. They don't have approval yet. I doubt it will happen.

[falafel]

Just a plan at this stage. They don't have approval yet. I doubt it will happen.

That sounds right. I remember some of the push back when the plan was announced. I assumed perhaps we were already sucking some of that water and just wanted an extra portion.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Vegas has a lot of ground water, surprisingly enough, so they are depleting an aquifer.

Dwight can chime in here, but technically the ground water is from other parts of the state. They don't exactly love us depleting the aquifer.

Just a plan at this stage. They don't have approval yet. I doubt it will happen.

Vegas currently gets 10% of its water from local groundwater. They've been pumping from this aquifer essentially since the Mormons first showed up. The aquifer is carefully monitored and regularly recharged. There is a plan to pipe water from a separate watershed 300 miles to the north. That plan was approved by the state engineer, which ruling was challenged in court and will be reheard in 2017.

As for the highly treated piss that we love to push down our throats, Outside did a pretty comprehensive story about a year ago. https://www.outsideonline.com/201668...-you-las-vegas

[creekster]

Vegas currently gets 10% of its water from local groundwater. They've been pumping from this aquifer essentially since the Mormons first showed up. The aquifer is carefully monitored and regularly recharged. There is a plan to pipe water from a separate watershed 300 miles to the north. That plan was approved by the state engineer, which ruling was challenged in court and will be reheard in 2017.

As for the highly treated piss that we love to push down our throats, Outside did a pretty comprehensive story about a year ago. https://www.outsideonline.com/201668...-you-las-vegas

Does that 10% include all the private wells on the west side?

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Does that 10% include all the private wells on the west side?

Yes.

[SCcoug]

Algorithmically sorted megaregions using commuting data.



And a human interpretation of the above map.



http://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...l.pone.0166083

[Bo Diddley]

Pretty cool map showing America's river systems.

Rivers.jpg

Created by Imgur user Fejetlenfej , a geographer and GIS analyst with a ‘lifelong passion for beautiful maps,’ it highlights the massive expanse of river basins across the country – in particular, those which feed the Mississippi River, in pink

[creekster]

Pretty cool map showing America's river systems.

Very cool. Like the veins and arteries of the nation.

[Walter Sobchak]

Ohio FTW.

<http://blog.estately.com/2015/12/u-s...istmas-movies/>

[Northwestcoug]

Interesting video of the problems with flat maps, hipster hosted:

https://youtu.be/kIID5FDi2JQ

[BigPiney]

Interesting video of the problems with flat maps, hipster hosted:

https://youtu.be/kIID5FDi2JQ

Projections are intersting and that is a pretty good explanation.

I mainly use the California Teale Albers projection for cartograpy. Albers makes it equal area, though the shapes gets distorted the further away from the center you get. It is centered on California, and gives a very pleasing California shape.

[Northwestcoug]

Projections are intersting and that is a pretty good explanation.

I mainly use the California Teale Albers projection for cartograpy. Albers makes it equal area, though the shapes gets distorted the further away from the center you get. It is centered on California, and gives a very pleasing California shape.

The vox video mentioned this website:

http://thetruesize.com

Pretty interesting to play around with. Now I know Greenland isn't as big as South America!

[falafel]

Maps showing where different TV shows are most popular. The map below is for the show Empire.



http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...maps.html?_r=0