User:Citynoise

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This user is interested in maps.

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I am a historian living Cambridge, Massachusetts. I contribute mostly images and graphics to existing articles, both from the public domain and rights-released files from my own research.

Some of my contributions can be seen in these articles: Gini coefficient, Boston, MBTA, BosWash, SanSan, Rail transport in the United States, Federal lands, Indian reservation, National Road, Adams-Onís Treaty, Republic of Indian Stream, Axonometric projection, Orthographic projection.

I recently uploaded some demographic maps of the contiguous US, which I think fix some of the problems of the official US Census maps. These address two major problems: 1, It is important to distinguish between two kinds of demographic distribution: population density (showing where people actually live), and population-as-percent-of-total (showing where one might expect political influence). It is impossible to show both of these metrics on one map. 2, showing information by county does not work for large counties like those around Los Angeles. Not only do these maps make no distinction between living in the city and living in the desert, but they can eliminate populations altogether, averaging a minority population over a huge area (showing population by county makes it look like almost no African-Americans live in LA! -- see this map).

See the new maps here: