This map has one black dot for every person in Ada, and in the whole U.S. and Canada
The internet is ripe with many cool things. We at the Icon thought this was pretty neat.
Brandon Martin-Anderson created a map that contains a dot for every single person counted in the last U.S. and Canadian censuses. That means 341,817,095 dots.
According to the site, he wanted "an image of human settlement patterns unmediated by proxies like city boundaries, arterial roads, state lines, etc." So he wrote a computer program and fed in the information from the census.
Click here for the census dotmap.
At first glance the map looks all smudged up. But zooming in, you can start to see the dots. And the patterns of the communities of people across land.
And truly, you can see a dot for every single person in Ada during the last census count. Amazing!
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