Conrad Hackett Dec 16, 2022

Check out how land is used in the United States. Cows take up the most space!

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
First in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots

Here’s How America Uses Its Land

The 48 contiguous states alone are a 1.9 billion-acre jigsaw puzzle of cities, farms, forests and pastures.

Bloomberg.com
Show thread🌟 S̲T̲A̲R̲G̲U̲Y̲ (Jerry)
@conradhackett
I have driven through most of those places from edge to edge and I can tell you most of it is wrong. But cool map!
Dec 16, 2022 at 10:45pmWeb
Show threaddmwcgDec 17, 2022
@starguy @conradhackett I don’t think this is supposed to represent *where* each of these is found, only the relative amounts of land used, depicted in the shape of the US map. Right?
Show thread🌟 S̲T̲A̲R̲G̲U̲Y̲ (Jerry)Dec 17, 2022
@dmwcg @conradhackett I can tell you the relative amours used for some areas labled are way way off. But as most info graphics, they are generated to side with whatever point they want to get across, and this seems to be cows in my own opinion.
Show threadJoostDec 17, 2022
@dmwcg @starguy @conradhackett right. No relation with the geographic location of each of these uses is intended.
Show thread🌟 S̲T̲A̲R̲G̲U̲Y̲ (Jerry)Dec 17, 2022
@almodozo
Got it. Its a basically a pie chart shaped like a nation. I saw it as the typical "this region has...." Info graphic maps are normally repurposed for.

@dmwcg @conradhackett