Conterminous US elevation generalized by 500km hexagonal tessellation

[IcyPeas]

OK. I only have a slight idea of what that means but the map image is cool: look at it enlarged too at the reddit link.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/imrpce/conterminous_us_elevation_generalized_by_500km%C2%B2/

[5X]

1. Oh, that.

[IcyPeas]

2. maybe I should edit the title, because no one is going to click on that

[BamaRefugee]

3. the title is what got me to click! ;-)

[Nevilledog]

4. I was hoping someone would post this.

Actually, I have no idea what the fuck this is. I did click though....lol

[IcyPeas]

6. LOL

I really do think it's an amazing image though.

[Faux pas]

5. I

knew it the whole time

[lpbk2713]

7. Fucken A

[Klaralven]

8. Interesting but what happened to Chesapeake and Delaware Bay, Long Island Sound, Lake Superior

[Amishman]

14. Elevation of the basin bottom is fairly shallow

So when they apply the averaging to create the tile, it gets flattened out / erased.

[GeorgiaPeanut]

9. It simply means an elevation map created by hexagonal tiles which are arranged

end to end and side to side (coterminus)

[edhopper]

10. just think

Lego US map.

[IcyPeas]

11. same map with labels for each state:

[Wounded Bear]

12. Must have for wargame designers...

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Oh, 500 *square* kilometre areas

I was going to say, it looks a lot finer detail than 500 km as the size of each area. Each of these is about 28km, or 17 miles, across.

[IcyPeas]

15. exactly!

I was gonna say that too