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minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoHow is this alphabetical? I keep looking for some logic to it but I can’t find it
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoStates starting with A are huge, states starting with W are tiny. (If there were states starting with Z they’d be even smaller)
minus-squareAmputret@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoThen why is Hawaii fucking massive?
minus-squareninja@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoHawaii’s landmass is spread out across islands. If you smash them all together the size looks like it’d be comparable to Illinois. Colorado, on the other hand, looks a bit large.
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoThat’s what I originally thought, but if you compare Maine and Alaska, the sizes aren’t much different to my eye
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-27 months agoI don’t know, it’s a dumb concept anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
minus-squarewjrii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoBut which map projection is he using?
minus-squareLesrid@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoMaybe he took all the current areas of the states. Then reassigned them alphabetically. Rather than creating new areas.
minus-squareVeryVito@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoStates get smaller in alphabetical order. Alabama is huge, while West Virginia is tiny.
How is this alphabetical? I keep looking for some logic to it but I can’t find it
States starting with A are huge, states starting with W are tiny. (If there were states starting with Z they’d be even smaller)
Then why is Hawaii fucking massive?
Hawaii’s landmass is spread out across islands. If you smash them all together the size looks like it’d be comparable to Illinois. Colorado, on the other hand, looks a bit large.
That’s what I originally thought, but if you compare Maine and Alaska, the sizes aren’t much different to my eye
I don’t know, it’s a dumb concept anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But which map projection is he using?
Maybe he took all the current areas of the states. Then reassigned them alphabetically. Rather than creating new areas.
States get smaller in alphabetical order. Alabama is huge, while West Virginia is tiny.
What’s going on with Hawaii, then?