Waiting for rest of the world
Global population density estimates are available at the ~100 m^2 level from the LandScan project at Oak Ridge National Labs.
Show HN: How far do I have to go to run into 100k people?
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#32Even if you are colliding with 20 people a minute thats still 3.5 straight days of running into people. Even if gentle thats probably heavy bruising, and any conflict or discourse is gonna slow down that 20-people rate.
I imagine theres probably only a few cities where you could pull this off.
Anyways I know the article isnt this literal, this was just my first thought from the title and I had a chuckle lol.
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#33I got 1419 miles by putting the pin just east of Presidio, TX. The Gulf of Mexico doesn't have many Americans in it on the way out to the Florida Keys. 1,570 miles by pinning the lower Keweenaw Peninsula which null-counts a great circle route through Canada.
Having been to Presidio on a trip to Big Bend I'm not surprised
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#34I was hoping this would estimate the mean free path from population density. Still fun though.
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#35It's rough not having Canada's population in here. There's way more than 100k people in all directions north from Buffalo and it doesn't feel accurate.
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#36heh, from my address in downtown Chicago, I get 2.34 miles in the shortest direction and > 3000 miles (aka don't reach 100k within the US) in the longest direction (slices of lake michigan passing through unpopulated stretches of the UP. Canada is not included, but not sure it would help much...
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#38Pretty cool, took me a few minutes to figure it out, there was a nice stretch of Florida that had no rays, clear cut wilderness
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What does “distance to 100k people mean”?
Re: Show HN: How far do I have to go to run into 100k people?
#40Cities on the water make fun shapes for obvious reasons. Atlantic City, Seattle, Chicago, Galveston, New Orleans. The slices can go very far or even be omitted due to not hitting the contiguous US. Chicago's is probably the most interesting, they cross Lake Michigan before getting sufficient density to stop.