Sunshine (she/her)New World Train Electrification in Colour
The purple line is surprising in Venezuela as they have abundant oil, I guess they want to export the oil at higher prices to other countries.
over_cloxPosted image is literally in grayscale (though the provided link is in color).
Because the vast majority of the rail lines in the Americas are fossil fuel powered.
I checked your provided link, practically all the lines were orange.
That’s for existing rails you have to click the electrification option.
Lemmy preview doesn’t care about that, you literally shared the grayscale version and called it colored.
Zoom in closer and you see the colour. Why are you so negative?
Not being negative, just telling you what I see. Also, you didn’t provide a color code, nor did you suggest phone users to zoom in.
Yay, I get more criticisms.
That’s why I said colour in the title and phone users already know they must zoom in on map data.
You should declare that then, when practically the whole map is in grayscale. Some of us have piss poor vision, I’m at 20/500 vision myself, and my pupils are starting to solidify. Plus my glasses are tinted.
Also, why no actual color guide?
is the map again. And is the legend with your color guide
Thank you. However, I still cannot see the colored areas without at least a few hints on where to look.
That’s because there aren’t a lot of electrified lines and America is pretty big. So in order to get all of America in the picture I had to zoom out but by doing that little details obviously get lost.
Here is the website. It should already be set to show electrification. With this you can zoom and look wherever you want
Thank you very kindly 👍
Dont take that personal, I enjoyed your post and its really not your fault ppl cant even read map descriptions.
Thx for posting <3
Then you should clarify that people should check the link if they want to see the colored map.
tostimanNo it’s not, zoom in on the north-east of the USA.
Thank you, very helpful 👍
I think the original poster posted this intentionally as sarcasm because there is so little color in the image. If you look at the original image and look at the USA North east near new york, you’ll see a few meager lines that are various colors (as well as a sliver in south america). This is showcasing just how little electrified rail exists in the americas.
It may not seem like it, but it is actually in color.
If you check the link they shared, it’s practically all orange, so they did not share the default view, nor a color legend to go along with it.
Jumutayea ofc the map is orange, it’s showing the infrastructure type
yk how maps work right?
Not entirely, not when the map site just kicks me back to Lemmy when I attempt to change ‘Style’
Right, it isn’t the default view, it’s the electrified view, which OP stated they were using. If you open the link, the orange is all general rail infrastructure. If you click the top right options button (separate from the layers button), you’ll see an option for electrification. This is the map they shared.
The grayscale option actually only grayscales the territory, not the infrastructure.
I do agree that a legend would have been helpful.
A tiny pink line will appear if you were to zoom in to Mason City, Iowa, USA.
Nice find! I thought America only had it for New England and California.
Many of the big, blue cities will have some color if you zoom in. But only to commute within the area
The Yucatan peninsula has an electric line too!
Ouch, I didn’t realize it was so little.
It’s why we gotta demand of our leaders to commit to electrification of the lines.
SomeGuy69Damn USA that’s a shame. Zero fucks given of you guys.
Canada: hold my beer!
For more mountainous or thick forest areas this is understandably. It required combustion engine trains, simply because of steep mountains, where it’s difficult to put down power lines or forests with a lot of trees who can easily destroy power lines. U SA however is mostly flat.