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- pithonThe framerate and latency on this visualization is absolute magic. Hover the mouse around over the sphere: https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/
- Beretta_VexeePerhaps you should limit it to capital cities or states with a certain population size. Including all the European microstates does not seem appropriate to me; Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican have very varying degrees of independence and geopolitical significance.
- maybewhenthesunVery nice.I guess most dutchies would disagree with the decision to pick De Hague as the Main Capital, though :-)While all power is in De Hague , Amsterdam definitely is the Capital. De Hague is for complaining about, Amsterdam is for celebrating.
- the_origami_foxSouth Africa is split into 4 segments. Johannesburg is not a capital. Otherwise South Africa has 3 capital cities - administrative (Pretoria), legislative (Cape Town) and judicial (Bloemfontein) - but Pretoria is informally considered the "main" capital.
- pcrhThe Vatican is surrounded on all sides by Rome. It is on the boundary of Municipio I (historical center) and Municipio XIII (Aurelia), however. So is Municipio I considered the "actual" capital of Italy?Also, the Vatican is the Holy See (as in seat), not Holy Sea (as in water)...
- thadk
- wood_spiritRelated post from same site earlier this week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385457
- cpercivaIt would be interesting to see a map which was not minimizing [distance to capital] but instead minimized [distance to capital]/sqrt([national population]). The latter would be more robust against Sybil attacks.
- T_S_New Risk board released
- forthwallInteresting, if a country has multiple capitals, it gets split even more!
- mattoxicTaipei claiming a big chunk of the PRC. Probably go down as well as Ottawa and Mexico City claiming big chunks of the USA
- poloticsthe choice of which city makes it into a dot seems very arbitrary, just for my corner of the woods, I see Genova and Lyons are omitted even they they are larger than their dot-neighbours on this map...
- gnoll_of_gozagwould be interesting to see one that takes into account things like railroads or terrain ruggedness
- pimlottcI would love to see some stats with this. What countries gain/loss the most? Which countries are the last changed? What areas are the now the most countries away from their original country?
- martinclaytonDublin knabs a decent chunk of Great Britain, Copenhagen gets southern Sweden. Seems fair.
- legostormtrooprSpeedrun: Starting World War III, any%
- NathanielBakingMadison, Canada. Now I just need to sell this to the Canadians.
- ConscatI find it very funny to imagine Keralam and Tamil Nadu part of Sri Lanka.
- GeorgelementalHmm, looks like it models capital cities as a single point, and therefore assigns much more territory to Vatican City than would a model that took into account Rome's city boundaries
- mlsuNow the corollary. For each country, given existing borders, place the capital directly in the geographic area centroid? Population centroid? Which capitals move most?
- jezzamonI want to see one a diagram which includes the oceans too
- vulcan01Huh, Canada seems roughly intact (except for BC).
- keyboredI think Montevideo’s slice of Antarctica is the craziest.
- raverbashingThe funny thing about this is that it's almost realisticBut in fact of course geography plays a big partThat "non-existent" country between France and Spain would actually be the center of Occitan/Langues d'Oc. (Well, it's actually the location of Andorra)It is also in the middle of the Pyrenees so of course that is going to push population out to the sidesSame thing for where the areas "bleed over" water regions or some rivers
- vincnetasIf country boundaries were Voronoi diagrams with respect to their capitals.
- SvokaUkraine's capital is misspelled "Kiev". Should be "Kyiv"
- syatsGreat work.
- bwestergardSeems right, ship it.
- brunellusI really enjoyed this.
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