Lol. Some of the Australian towns are rather small, showing how sparse our population is: Leonara: 2,476 Geraldton: 37,000 Mackay: 80,000
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The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box
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#22I was surprised by Leonora, Western Australia being there with it's population of 556 [1], I tried to find a bigger town in the area but couldn't. I wonder if that is the smallest town on that map? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora,_Western_Australia
Mejit in the Marshall Islands has a population of 348.
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#23Where is Saint Petersburg, Russia? It seems to be on the border of the boxes and might be in the same box with Helsinki (metro 1,495,271) or Minsk (metro 2,645,500). Saint Petersburg's population is 5,351,935.
It's at 59.9, 30.4, which edges it into the Moscow box.
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#24Where is Saint Petersburg, Russia? It seems to be on the border of the boxes and might be in the same box with Helsinki (metro 1,495,271) or Minsk (metro 2,645,500). Saint Petersburg's population is 5,351,935.
The 60°00'00.0"N, 30°00'00.0"E intersection is actually slightly northwest of Saint Petersburg, so it ends up in the same square as Moscow.
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#25I quibble with the description of the shapes bounded by 10 degrees of longitude and latitude as "rectangles" - they're not even planar shapes, and their adjacent sides certainly aren't at right angles. Some of them don't even have four sides.
This bears considering when looking at the map, because some of those regions are much, much smaller than others.
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#26I think something more interesting might be like a voronoi diagram of all cities such that the city is in like the top 5 within a 1000 miles radius or something (or just that but without the voronoi part). This should preserve the fact that only the largest cities in some area are present, but eliminate the arbitrariness of the boundaries. I think you would want to compute this with a sweep line algorithm.
A map projection that preserves area would be better, otherwise there's an excessive number of cities in the far northern hemisphere, and a lack of detail in the tropics.
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#27I was surprised by Leonora, Western Australia being there with it's population of 556 [1], I tried to find a bigger town in the area but couldn't. I wonder if that is the smallest town on that map? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora,_Western_Australia
Alert in northern Canada has 62 permanent inhabitants, according to wikipedia [1]
Re: The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box
#28I was surprised by Leonora, Western Australia being there with it's population of 556 [1], I tried to find a bigger town in the area but couldn't. I wonder if that is the smallest town on that map? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora,_Western_Australia
Tristan da Cunha - population: 246
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#29Where is Saint Petersburg, Russia? It seems to be on the border of the boxes and might be in the same box with Helsinki (metro 1,495,271) or Minsk (metro 2,645,500). Saint Petersburg's population is 5,351,935.
In the text of the article:
> What the heck happened to St. Petersburg? (at 59.938N, 30.309E, it is just barely inside the same box as Moscow. The map is quite distorted in this region.)
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#30TIL Atlanta, GA has fewer people than Jacksonville, FL. The Atlanta metropolitan area has a lot more people.