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)Dec 16, 2022
@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!
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 threadJoostDec 17, 2022
@dmwcg @starguy @conradhackett right. No relation with the geographic location of each of these uses is intended.
Show thread🌟 S̲T̲A̲R̲G̲U̲Y̲ (Jerry)
@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
Dec 17, 2022 at 6:00amWeb