This is a killer app for Vancouver drivers.
Show HN: How far do I have to go to run into 100k people?
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#12Is this supposed to mean that 100k people live in each slice of the pie? Counting up slices and comparing to my metro statistical area population, that about works out.
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#14Fun! If you click in the center of Nebraska, US - there are some angles for which you will never find 100k people.
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#15That is a cool visualization.
Punched in my grandparents' town and a bunch of the slices stretched 1500km over three states away. A lot of the US is big and empty.
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#16Doesn't work outside the US sadly.
It does say that it only works in contiguous US (so no Alaska nor Hawaii nor "abroad" :D ), but seems it also works in Bahamas, for some reason, which as far as I know, isn't part of the contiguous US (yet?).
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#17That seems like the distance to go from having 100k people in front of you to having 100k people behind you. The distance you'd have to go to run into them properly would depend critically on the width of the vehicle you're in. With about 30k people running the Boston marathon and 60k people running the NY marathon, if you can source a vehicle wide enough to cover the course, it seems like you could pull it off in ju…
Ah interesting, I seen the title "run into" as "bump into" or in this context, get to where 100k people are. I don't know any US addresses far from population centers so I pumped in Area 51! Clarity needed on the title or description!
It says right at the top of the website:
> From the pin, a filled 5° slice in every direction. Petal length = distance to 100k people.
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#18Really cool. Makes me wonder where the most remote point in the contiguous U.S. is by this metric.
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#19Really cool. Makes me wonder where the most remote point in the contiguous U.S. is by this metric.
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#20Is this resident population or ambient?
I've been building a UK-wide 24-hour population dataset lately, and it's really opened my eyes to how much population data is best-guess-estimate - including census figures - and quite how difficult it is to say with any certainly how many people "touched" a location on any given day.