the choice of which city makes it into a dot seems very arbitrary, just for my corner of the woods, I see Genova and Lyons are omitted even they they are larger than their dot-neighbours on this map...
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#32The funny thing about this is that it's almost realistic
But in fact of course geography plays a big part
That "non-existent" country between France and Spain would actually be the center of Occitan/Langues d'Oc. (Well, it's actually the location of Andorra)
It is also in the middle of the Pyrenees so of course that is going to push population out to the sides
Same thing for where the areas "bleed over" water regions or some rivers
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#33Speedrun: Starting World War III, any%
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#34South Africa is split into 4 segments. Johannesburg is not a capital. Otherwise South Africa has 3 capital cities - administrative (Pretoria), legislative (Cape Town) and judicial (Bloemfontein) - but Pretoria is informally considered the "main" capital.
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#35The framerate and latency on this visualization is absolute magic. Hover the mouse around over the sphere: https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/
It feels quite choppy on mobile, but I think it could be fixed by adding touch-action: none
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#37I think Montevideo’s slice of Antarctica is the craziest.
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#38It would be interesting to see a map which was not minimizing [distance to capital] but instead minimized [distance to capital]/sqrt([national population]). The latter would be more robust against Sybil attacks.
I was wondering what kind of metric could be used to visualize a nation’s ability to project power. Maybe some ratio involving the furthest distance from the capital city to the nation’s border?
I’m curious why the sqrt of the population in the denominator?
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#39would be interesting to see one that takes into account things like railroads or terrain ruggedness
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#40Ukraine's capital is misspelled "Kiev". Should be "Kyiv"
Just for a bit of context, this site is from over a decade ago, at which point almost everyone outside of Ukraine used the old spelling of Kiev, despite the official transliteration change to Kyiv from 1995 [0]. Ukraine ended up having to run the KyivNotKiev [1] campaign to get other countries to adopt the new spelling, which mostly gradually happened over the last few years. But I think it's a bit much to expect every resource out there to retroactively update their spelling.