
01-26-2012, 09:39 PM
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Location: New Orleans
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Originally Posted by Flborn_halfback
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Neat map. Perhaps the most interesting thing about it is that you can draw an almost-straight line from lake Michigan, through Minneapolis and down into Dallas and San Antonio, and the "hilliness" abruptly stops to the west of that line.
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01-26-2012, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Flborn_halfback
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Nice map but bad source. Wont let you zoom in.
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01-26-2012, 10:35 PM
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Agreed
I know, I agree with you on that, definitely would be a plus to be able to zoom. I'm looking at it on a Pad and pinch zoom works ok, high res would be nice though.
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01-26-2012, 10:45 PM
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Location: IN
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Originally Posted by Neworleansisprettygood
Neat map. Perhaps the most interesting thing about it is that you can draw an almost-straight line from lake Michigan, through Minneapolis and down into Dallas and San Antonio, and the "hilliness" abruptly stops to the west of that line.
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Yes, there are many reasons why population is very low between the western margin of the Midwest and the Rocky Mountains.
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01-27-2012, 09:23 AM
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It looks like a huge bowl in the Midwest. A ring of cities from Chicago over to Pitts and then back through Indy. Nothing in the middle.
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01-27-2012, 09:33 AM
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Location: The City
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Cool maps thanks!
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01-27-2012, 10:11 AM
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Location: Mid Atlantic USA
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Originally Posted by Flborn_halfback
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Great map. Do you know of any geography forums on the web? C-D doesn't really have one.
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01-27-2012, 12:38 PM
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Location: Cleveland bound with MPLS in the rear-view
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Originally Posted by Chicago60614
It looks like a huge bowl in the Midwest. A ring of cities from Chicago over to Pitts and then back through Indy. Nothing in the middle.
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Do you mean northern Indiana and Southern Michigan? 'Cause if you do those areas are actually very highly populated, but without super-large cities (just a lot of medium-sized cities 150K to 1M).
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01-27-2012, 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by tom77falcons
Great map. Do you know of any geography forums on the web? C-D doesn't really have one.
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Yes - - Geography Home Page - Geography at About.com puts out stories every week about geography-rated topics, both physical and human geography.. You can read hundreds of past archived articles there too.
The site also has a FORUM section which you can access by clicking right under Matt R's picture. However, Forum postings are rather few and far between. It was not always that way - a decade or so ago, the Forum used to be much busier, for some reason.
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