Here's a Massachusetts fun fact while we're at it: That bit sticking out of Massachusetts and eating a part of Connecticut is called the Southwick Jog! Why does it exist? Good question! In 1642 Massachusetts hired two surveyors, Nathaniel Woodward and Solomon Saffery, to survey the boundary between that colony and Connecticut. However, the point they established as the western end of the line was disputed by Connecticut and ultimately found to be eight miles too far south. To complicate matters, the citizens of Enfield, Somers, Suffield and Woodstock, unhappy with Massachusetts' high taxes, applied for admission into Connecticut in 1724. These towns claimed they were included within Connecticut's original boundaries and were entitled to return to that state. Naturally, Massachusetts refused to give them up, but in 1749 Connecticut voted to acquire them. In 1793, both states appointed Boundary Commissioners to run a straight boundary from Union, Connecticut to the New York state line. In 1797 the Commissioners recommended that a disputed 2.5 square mile tract be awarded to Massachusetts as compensation for its earlier losses of Suffield, Woodstock, Somers, and Enfield to Connecticut. However, it was not until 1804 that Connecticut agreed to yet another compromise that partitioned the 2.5 mile area at Congamond Lakes with Massachusetts receiving 5/8 of the disputed parcel along the west shore and Connecticut receiving the remainder, along the east shore.
For geography nerds like us, I find it encouraging that other folks are trying new things and creating their own experiments with maps and data. Visualization is an important skill set and this practice is positive and enabling.
I’ve fallen in love with MA, my dad’s side of the family is all from sandwich, which is near cape cod. New england just has a totally different vibe from the rest of the country it’s weird but i like it, i’m gonna move to a new england state that’s legal for mary jane lmfao
that's great i went to Mass about 20 years ago , all the way out to Glouster and some cities had a Dunkin and another Dunkin would be across the street ..almost as if one dunkin wasn't enough for that busy area .. we passed dunkins all days lol
1:13 Suggestion, for you or the person who created the Dunkin Donuts map: I would be interested in seeing a comparison of densest saturation areas of all the major fast food chains. Like where is McDonald's most heavily saturated compared to Taco Bell or Chik-fil-A. 👍😊
On the Palm Beach County map I think that the income nearest the coast is lower because those people are retired and their income is low. That’s not saying that their net worth is not sky high. For instance, you can have a nest egg of $3M but your SS and other retirement accounts might only bring in $5000 a month.
Dunkin' Donuts was founded in Massachusetts, so of course it makes they're an iconic part of the state's culture! It was founded by Bill Rosenberg in Quincy in 1950. At first, Bill Rosenberg opened Open Kettle in 1948 but he changed the name to Dunkin' Donuts two years later, and it is rumored that an Executive Architect came up with the name, inspired by the idea of dunking donuts into coffee. This was of course a successful idea, and Rosenberg sold franchises to others starting in 1955. But the story gets even more interesting as in 1955, Bill worked with his brother-in-law Harry Winokur. After Winokur broke his partnership with Rosenberg, he went on to create Mister Donut with his son-in-law David Slater that same year. This became so successful that they too started franchising, and after International Multifoods Corporation bought them in 1970, they opened locations outside North America like in Japan, and today Mister Donut is one of the most popular brands in Japan. However, after Dunkin' was acquired in 1990 by Allied Lyons, Dunkin' acquired Mister Donut and took over the Mister Donut locations in North America, which is why they Mister Donut is still around in Asia. In 2020, Dunkin', Baskin-Robbins, and Mister Donut became part of Inspire Brands.
The Interesting Maps series might be my favorite of all youtube series. ALL RUclips. These are the bread and butter of why I love nerding out on geography. Keep it up, Kyle!
You're such a wholesome and down to earth RUclipsr! It makes me so happy to see that you're still getting views and making videos about stuff that you're both knowledgeable and passionate about. Great stuff as always, Kyle!
I wonder if the lower income residents close to the beaches are people who bought their homes 40-50+ years ago. That is what has happened in places like Santa Monica and Huntington Beach. My best friend's house in Santa Monica was a few blocks from the beach, but his parents bought it in the 1960s for $24,000. He sold it for $2 million last year after his parents passed away.
That's probably the case. I see people that look very "low class" or even like outright crackheads, but they're living in a decent house. It's always older folks, so I presumed this was basically it... They got it when it was dirt cheap.
Also understand that in California, those houses bought 40-50 years ago would be paying MUCH lower property taxes than any newer sale. Property tax is capped at 2% a year meaning meaning their $24k home may of had a tax basis of under $100k. Florida caps at 10% which would put their basis well into the millions.
I am such a huge fan of your channel! I looove geography and I feel like you are one of the only channels that is actually interesting and true geography! Keep up the good work!
Super cool to see the inclusion of the NHL in this as a super-nerd for both hockey and geography. I’ve been living in Louisiana for my entire life and nobody cares about hockey here so it was quite surprising to see that CBJ logo in biloxi. Did some digging and apparently that guy (Matheu Olivier) was born there and lived there for a very short time before moving around the world as his father was a hockey player and was originally Canadian. Makes sense.
Seems like that map might have the be updated with Mason Lohrei becoming the first NHL player from Louisiana! I hope more people in the south will start becoming hockey fans
Thank you for yet another great video. Interesting takes on the data, and I really appreciate your comments on presentation pros and cons. That helps all of us in learning how to present data in a compelling way.
Being a hockey fan (NJ Devils), I especially liked the map pinpointing the hometowns of each player. It was especially fun trying to figure out which players came from more remote or less common places like Leon Draisaitl from Germany, and Mats Zuccarello from Norway.
I did a bicycle tour through that state, I had more harrowing, close calls with drivers playing chicken trying to show me the upper hand, beautiful state but dismal appreciation from the motorists, California is a close second for me regarding drivers trying to intimidate bicycle riders
@@levinpugsley9256couldn’t agree more when it comes to the motorist statement! Had the cruise control set on 85 and let’s just say trucks coming towards my lane cause I “blocked” them from passing me cause my speed I was NOT pleased
I went on a road trip that passed though MT this summer. As a native NYer and a current NC resident, the high speed limits were cool and the speeders were quite a sight to see!
Good video and good job to all the map makers. I have a request, map of all the bike trails in Ohio. Or more challenge if interested, all bike trails in eastern US. Or even more, all bike trails in the US.
For the Bar/car crash map - NH also doesn’t have a seatbelt law which causes a lot more deadly crashes than if you were required to wear your seatbelt.
I used to live in Humboldt County, California---and I can vouch for the fact that it gets very little sun. Even in summer sometimes the fog and low clouds remain until early afternoon. The sun comes out for 2 or 3 hours and then it's cloudy again.
Out west you are allowed to bike on the interstates simply because it's the only reasonable way to cross the states. As you go east that is not allowed because there are many non-interstate roads available.
I can't imagine anyone in their right mind riding a bicycle along the interstate. You have to have a death wish and/or enjoy riding on boring over-heated concrete breathing in polluted air.
Of all the careers, in retrospect, that I wish I had got into, cartography is first. Followed by linguistics. Instead, I studied history and ended up in the wine trade. A bit of all of those combined.
As a NH resident, what immediately stood out to me about the state borders as rectangles map, is that it has ME, NH, and VT meeting at a "three corners" point, which is incorrect. VT needs to slide down slightly (maybe by shortening MA) to disconnect VT from ME. I didn't do a thorough check of whether there are other instances of "three corners" boundary points being incorrect, though "Four Corners" certainly is done correctly. I've recently started adding visits to "three corners" points to my road trip plans, as well as finding and re-surveying (with an old sub-centimeter accuracy GPS off eBay) various other types of survey and boundary markers, including ones marking SCOTUS decisions about state boundary disputes. Yes, some boundary markers have Supreme Court labeling rather than the usual USGS/etc.
4:20 i think a practical use would make itself clearer if you were to discretize this down into say a graph you could use for combinatorics problems/issues
The map about bars and DUI's, for New York it may be low due to a lot of people live NYC but not that many have their own cars so take cabs or the subway more than drive.
2:45 I have some questions about this map. 1. Why don’t the colors go from light to dark with how temperate, and obey the spectrum of light so orange is hotter and then it falls to yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet as you get colder? Everyone is more used to this organization of colors. Secondly, idk which color my area should be if it is 100° max temp every year, should it be in the 95° category or 104°?
You mentioned your street trivia videos….have you ever thought of taking a trip up to Knoxville and doing one at UT? There’s also a pretty neat building that houses the geography department that might be worth checking out
RE deer and highway accidents, maybe 20 years ago, a survey was taken noting that although the deer population in NY State was at an all time high (due to the reduction in predators) the number of deer being hit on the roads was going steadily down. It could be that there has been better fencing along highways. However, one theory was that the deer were actually getting smarter.
One of the very best map sets ever was one created for Wired, showing commission of the "seven deadly sins" using factual proxies for them, such as density of fast food restaurants for Gluttony, number of reported STD cases for Lust, and so on for all 7. Unsurprisingly, the US bible belt excelled in most of them.
Michigan also borders both Illinois (entirely in Lake Michigan) and Minnesota (entirely in Lake Superior). Also, New York and Rhode Island border each other in Long Island Sound. I am not sure how it would impact the map from 3:44 to 4:26, though that is accurate when it comes to non-water borders. Obviously the colors for those states would have to change on the map from 4:26 to 5:06, but that would be an easy change.
I’m from Palm Beach and the areas just east of I-95 tend to be older, run down and likely to simply be there longer. They tend to be communities where immigrants from the Caribbean or Latin America come and start their new lives in America and come with very little.
That really depends where in the county. I lived in South County, and areas east of I-95 may have a few neighborhoods with immigrant and African American populations, but areas east of Rt. 1 and entire barrier islands tend to be wealthier-with many retirees-which may account for much of the lower incomes on the extreme coast (Town of Palm Beach excluded). In the extreme southeast (Boca Raton), most of the area east of 95 is middle and upper middle class.
I'm curious about the map at 4:26. Specifically Four Corners, USA. Don't all 4 border each other at one specific point?? If so, Utah should be Yellow, Arizona and NM should be Green and Colorado should be Red. Right??
I've had that question for a while. From a geometry standpoint, do two places that meet at a corner point border each other? Does Colorado border Arizona?
For most mathematical purposes, faces that share a vertex but not an edge are not considered adjacent, but have a weaker relationship that is a superset of adjacency. (Technically, the network graph of adjacency is the dual of the faces' edges network graph. ) If there's a conventional name for that corner-touching in geometry I've forgotten it.
@@BillRicker I ask this out of curiosity due to several active court cases involving a situation just like this. The debate is...are you trespassing on 2 other properties if you cross diagonally from one lot to another? Some courts are saying YES, it IS trespassing. Or, in this case, if you step from AZ to CO, you enter the properties of UT and NM in the process.
My first thought is that there are some nerdy people out there. Oh wait I’m watching a nerdy video…. Second thought is that there are some really talented people. Very cool interesting maps y’all!!!!
For the bikes, I would guess fewer cyclists and straighter roads. Blind corners in the woods are way more dangerous than long straight grassland/desert highways.
Coincidentally, the map showing places where Dunkin is in Ma, well, that’s also where the police are in MA, as during my 35 years living there, it was very rare to see a Dunkin that didn’t have at least one police car in the parking lot… in Falmouth, MA once about 30 years ago,they had 4 police cars at their Dunkin on more than one occasion! It was so bad that a chief of police there once said that if he saw more than one police car there for more than 10 minutes, he’d fine those officers a days pay!
@@GeographyKingya, well you don't need a lot of accuracy since an emblem for a team doesn't tell you the player and in Southern Ontario, likely 15 to 20% of the league is there.
What’s up with that middle bit in Massachusetts that seems to be bereft of Dunkins, yet there seems to be a city right in the middle? There’s a city seemingly bordered by nothing for miles.
People also don't necessarily even drive in densely urban areas, much less drive drunk. Even medium cities have more taxicabs and buses per capita; so again, don't need to drive or have a designated driver. I bet that map would look very different pre-MADD (mid-1980s).
Mississippi recently got two coaster credits. They are both in Biloxi. An SBF visa at Paradise Pier at Margaritaville and a SDC Hurricane and a place called Big Play.
Vermont does have 2 Mountain coasters and Wyoming and Montana each have 1 (so technically 2 parks with credits). I'm guessing either 1. They don't count Mountain Coasters or 2. Mountain Coasters tend to be stand alone attractions, and including them would shoot up Tennessee's park count, so technically 47 states plus Guam have at least 1 roller coaster according to the Roller Coaster database. Despite Hawaii having a song called "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" they don't have, at least a permanent, roller coaster-and most traveling coasters aren't tracked unless they are set up at an amusement park at some point (That's just the site operator's rule)
Alaska does have a permanent coaster, its just on fairground property and not dismantled like in the case of the Washington State Fair where they keep two coasters (well one is wood) up year round (although one was moved just across the grounds and is considered a separate entry-which is kinda wired considering some rides have had changes to their experience, but remain as a single entry because the structure isn't really changed-although I would've made Top Thrill 2 a separate entry since they are adding new trackage that didn't exist before)
Love that map of Mass. I live in the big swath of green in the West with my fellow hobbits and our pet dragons. We may not have Dunks, but we do have lots and lots of magical trees. And we do our best to keep the trolls at bay so the city folk can chug their iced regulars in peace.
Areas of MA that are within 10 minutes of a Dunkin's: the only reason the south shore isn't pink is that it takes 10 minutes to get out of your driveway and down the block there.
9:51 - Racial gentrification is the reason Palm Beach County is like that. Keep in mind, in 10-20 years most of what's now beach front property will be underwater unless drastic changes are made to combat our climate crisis. For those of you who still don't believe there is a climate crisis, I invite you to visit Miami Florida, where there are pumping station's set up now all over the city that run 24/7.
Well, so what? The costs imposed by making those "drastic changes" will dwarf those losses from the "climate crisis." Why should the rest of the world have to subsidize rich people who own beachfront property? You choose to buy there next to the ocean, tough luck.
@@tamarab5751 Thanks for that. So the Czech government tells the English speaking world, how to pronounce their country in English. I thought just the English name came up by what English speaking countries called them. So that means Rome, Italy, & Germany, can now Demand, that the English speaking world, refer to them as Roma, Italia, & Deutschland?
@@MikeCee7 Czechia was not the first country to do so. The government of Ivory Coast does not recognize any transaltions of the name of their country, so no matter which language you speak, you should call it "Côte d'Ivoire". The Czech government's decision was a bit different, you can still call it "Czech Republic" as that is still the official full name of the country, "Czechia" is just the new official short name. Which makes it probably the only country in existence, that does have an official short name in a foreign language, but not in it's own official language.
@@obrnenydrevokocur9344 Thanks for the information. So that’s kind of like when Michael Jackson self-proclaimed he wanted everyone to call him “The King of Pop” & when Howard Stern self-proclaimed, he was: “The King of All Media” - But unfortunately, Mariah Carey cannot claim she’s the “Queen of Christmas” because that title has already been trademark by someone else. - I guess the Ivory Coast, better come over & sue me. Because I can’t pronounce or spell its desired name. - & I now proclaim, that I want “Only” the country of “Czechia”, to call me. “King of Central Florida”😂
I caught a mistake in the State Borders map by Laurence. Michigan also borders Minnesota so Michigan should be purple (4) and not light blue (3). Phenomenal map otherwise.
That Cape Cod trail map is a good one! My husband is from there. We also liked the Dunkin map - we've been to the one in Wellfleet that's your last chance before Provincetown lol. It was also fun to try to find our Boston Bruins on the NHL maps. I learned there are NHL players from Alabama and South Carolina! Another commenter noted the lack of Alaska means Jeremy Swayman is inadvertently left out. I couldn't find which Blues player is from the UK though lol.
I have several critiques concerning the map made by Laurence D showing state borders as rectangles. Her map shows a 4 corners of WI, MI, IN, IL. That is incorrect. In fact, IL & MI share a border in Lake Michigan, east of Chicago. Fun fact, or at least I think it is a fact. I believe that it is the only border between states, in the lower 48, that involves no land border and is only a water border. Do you agree or disagree? Furthermore, one might argue about the 4 corners shown at VA, MD, & DE; or VT, NH, ME. Lengthening the height of MD or the width of NH to fully separate VA & DE and VT & ME would give the map more meaning considering the accuracy and implication the 4 corners of UT, AZ, NM, & CO are represented on the map. At least that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it for now. Nice map Laurence, I know it was a lot of work to put it together.
I agree about the map needing better treatment of ME/VT not actually meeting at all, even just at a point, etc. There are water-only borders between NY/RI and also MI/MN, in addition to MI/IL.
@@ReverendMeat51 I know the man didn't include them on his map. But the schools I went to said that the four corner states do count as touching. I don't know what the logic is either way.
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Here's a Massachusetts fun fact while we're at it: That bit sticking out of Massachusetts and eating a part of Connecticut is called the Southwick Jog! Why does it exist? Good question! In 1642 Massachusetts hired two surveyors, Nathaniel Woodward and Solomon Saffery, to survey the boundary between that colony and Connecticut. However, the point they established as the western end of the line was disputed by Connecticut and ultimately found to be eight miles too far south. To complicate matters, the citizens of Enfield, Somers, Suffield and Woodstock, unhappy with Massachusetts' high taxes, applied for admission into Connecticut in 1724.
These towns claimed they were included within Connecticut's original boundaries and were entitled to return to that state. Naturally, Massachusetts refused to give them up, but in 1749 Connecticut voted to acquire them. In 1793, both states appointed Boundary Commissioners to run a straight boundary from Union, Connecticut to the New York state line. In 1797 the Commissioners recommended that a disputed 2.5 square mile tract be awarded to Massachusetts as compensation for its earlier losses of Suffield, Woodstock, Somers, and Enfield to Connecticut. However, it was not until 1804 that Connecticut agreed to yet another compromise that partitioned the 2.5 mile area at Congamond Lakes with Massachusetts receiving 5/8 of the disputed parcel along the west shore and Connecticut receiving the remainder, along the east shore.
A primo example showing the connection of history with geography.
For geography nerds like us, I find it encouraging that other folks are trying new things and creating their own experiments with maps and data. Visualization is an important skill set and this practice is positive and enabling.
Alright, you got me. Me Massachusetts, me sees Massachusetts, me clicks. -the insights of an average Bostonian vol. 3
Yes same lol. Wicked smaht
I love Massachusetts like it’s going out of style
Same tho
I’ve fallen in love with MA, my dad’s side of the family is all from sandwich, which is near cape cod. New england just has a totally different vibe from the rest of the country it’s weird but i like it, i’m gonna move to a new england state that’s legal for mary jane lmfao
Is it true the M in Massachusetts makes a T sound?
that's great i went to Mass about 20 years ago , all the way out to Glouster and some cities had a Dunkin and another Dunkin would be across the street ..almost as if one dunkin wasn't enough for that busy area .. we passed dunkins all days lol
1:13 Suggestion, for you or the person who created the Dunkin Donuts map: I would be interested in seeing a comparison of densest saturation areas of all the major fast food chains. Like where is McDonald's most heavily saturated compared to Taco Bell or Chik-fil-A. 👍😊
This is an excellent idea!
I'd like to see Hardee's and Carl's Jr. on the same map.
I’d like to see KFC vs Popeye’s
Here in Utah it’s DEFINITELY Taco Bell lol.
I was about to say I'd love to see a map of PA and NJ showing locations 10 minutes from a Wawa
On the Palm Beach County map I think that the income nearest the coast is lower because those people are retired and their income is low. That’s not saying that their net worth is not sky high. For instance, you can have a nest egg of $3M but your SS and other retirement accounts might only bring in $5000 a month.
@8:33 seeing that there are nhl players from california, arizona, texas, florida and the southern us is wild.
That's some Alaska erasure there on the NHL map. My boy Swayman from Anchorage needs more goalie hugs!
It's kinda funny how easy it was to spot Hampus and Pasta's homes
Also how easy it was to find carlo too lol
Hey fellow Bruins fan! I love Sway!
It’s hard to tell how long ago the map was made cause the map was outdated by some other players too. Tarasenko was still a Blues player.
that's buchnevich, Tarasenko is from yaroslavl and you can see a bit of a rangers logo poking out@@Colyde25
Dunkin' Donuts was founded in Massachusetts, so of course it makes they're an iconic part of the state's culture! It was founded by Bill Rosenberg in Quincy in 1950. At first, Bill Rosenberg opened Open Kettle in 1948 but he changed the name to Dunkin' Donuts two years later, and it is rumored that an Executive Architect came up with the name, inspired by the idea of dunking donuts into coffee. This was of course a successful idea, and Rosenberg sold franchises to others starting in 1955. But the story gets even more interesting as in 1955, Bill worked with his brother-in-law Harry Winokur. After Winokur broke his partnership with Rosenberg, he went on to create Mister Donut with his son-in-law David Slater that same year.
This became so successful that they too started franchising, and after International Multifoods Corporation bought them in 1970, they opened locations outside North America like in Japan, and today Mister Donut is one of the most popular brands in Japan. However, after Dunkin' was acquired in 1990 by Allied Lyons, Dunkin' acquired Mister Donut and took over the Mister Donut locations in North America, which is why they Mister Donut is still around in Asia. In 2020, Dunkin', Baskin-Robbins, and Mister Donut became part of Inspire Brands.
Maps are my favorite. Wish you would do more of these.
The Interesting Maps series might be my favorite of all youtube series. ALL RUclips. These are the bread and butter of why I love nerding out on geography. Keep it up, Kyle!
You're such a wholesome and down to earth RUclipsr! It makes me so happy to see that you're still getting views and making videos about stuff that you're both knowledgeable and passionate about. Great stuff as always, Kyle!
I wonder if the lower income residents close to the beaches are people who bought their homes 40-50+ years ago. That is what has happened in places like Santa Monica and Huntington Beach. My best friend's house in Santa Monica was a few blocks from the beach, but his parents bought it in the 1960s for $24,000. He sold it for $2 million last year after his parents passed away.
That's probably the case. I see people that look very "low class" or even like outright crackheads, but they're living in a decent house. It's always older folks, so I presumed this was basically it... They got it when it was dirt cheap.
Also understand that in California, those houses bought 40-50 years ago would be paying MUCH lower property taxes than any newer sale. Property tax is capped at 2% a year meaning meaning their $24k home may of had a tax basis of under $100k. Florida caps at 10% which would put their basis well into the millions.
@@MrCho14 yeah my friend's parents house in Santa Monica had annual property taxes of just under $2000 last year.
Gotta love the players in the NHL map and the roller coasters map!
Wonderful submissions everyone! Always an inspiration what people come up with.
I am such a huge fan of your channel! I looove geography and I feel like you are one of the only channels that is actually interesting and true geography! Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
@@GeographyKing Thank you for replying! Definitely made my day as I am such a huge fan!
def the best one i've watched! he keeps it simple and his delivery is by far the best, easy listening.
Super cool to see the inclusion of the NHL in this as a super-nerd for both hockey and geography. I’ve been living in Louisiana for my entire life and nobody cares about hockey here so it was quite surprising to see that CBJ logo in biloxi. Did some digging and apparently that guy (Matheu Olivier) was born there and lived there for a very short time before moving around the world as his father was a hockey player and was originally Canadian. Makes sense.
Seems like that map might have the be updated with Mason Lohrei becoming the first NHL player from Louisiana! I hope more people in the south will start becoming hockey fans
that's the case with most players from non-hockey markets, but it does make the map more interesting
I loved the NHL map! Very easy to see where The Hobbit is from. Mats Zuccarello-Aasen from Oslo. : )
The map from 3:45-4:25 does not show the maritime borders between Minnesota and Michigan, and New York and Rhode Island.
Didn’t know about Minnesota/Michigan but came here to say the same about RI/NY
Along with that, Michigan should be light green on the hand drawn map, as Michigan borders 5 states (IN, OH, WI by land, IL and MN by Great Lakes)
Most people don't count the maritime borders.
Thank you for yet another great video. Interesting takes on the data, and I really appreciate your comments on presentation pros and cons. That helps all of us in learning how to present data in a compelling way.
Love the intersection of coaster enthusiasts and geography at 5:55
Being a hockey fan (NJ Devils), I especially liked the map pinpointing the hometowns of each player. It was especially fun trying to figure out which players came from more remote or less common places like Leon Draisaitl from Germany, and Mats Zuccarello from Norway.
The Geology map from Hazel did look great! Thank you!
Who would have thunk it a guy doing videos about maps and geography is one of my favorite channels ever!
Can't imagine biking on a Montana interstate with vehicles passing you at 80+ mph!
I did a bicycle tour through that state, I had more harrowing, close calls with drivers playing chicken trying to show me the upper hand, beautiful state but dismal appreciation from the motorists, California is a close second for me regarding drivers trying to intimidate bicycle riders
@@levinpugsley9256couldn’t agree more when it comes to the motorist statement! Had the cruise control set on 85 and let’s just say trucks coming towards my lane cause I “blocked” them from passing me cause my speed I was NOT pleased
@@levinpugsley9256monta has little peoole what are you talking about🤦🏽♂️🤬
It’s fair to say in Montana you’ll see another car like once every 3 hours
I went on a road trip that passed though MT this summer. As a native NYer and a current NC resident, the high speed limits were cool and the speeders were quite a sight to see!
Good video and good job to all the map makers. I have a request, map of all the bike trails in Ohio. Or more challenge if interested, all bike trails in eastern US. Or even more, all bike trails in the US.
The hand drawn was really good
Massachusetts has so many great GIS developers
These are the best videos from you!! I love them so interesting
Thank you! I'll keep them coming
Urban places have fewer drunk drivers because fewer people have to get in a car to get a drink!
5:00 MN actually has a water border with MI (via Lake Superior), so technically it borders 5 states not 4! Still, cool map!
As a "thoosie" myself that person left out 5 states with roller coasters north and south dakota nebraska Alaska and kansas
Thanks to all the cartographers! My favorite was the Cape Cod trails. I've bicycled all but one of the greens and looking forward to more of them!
I need to go go the the Cape again
I like how the trail map shows a perfect outline of Otis Air Force base
I really liked that one too. I've ridden the Rail Trail from Dennis a couple times. I had know idea it was that extensive.
I just noticed the Inspectah Deck album on the wall. A true, underrated artist!
You got that right, Kyle. A fairly hot July and August here in Phoenix. Over 112 to 117° during the summer. I woke up this morning to 58°
These are so creative! Keep 'em comin'!!
For the Bar/car crash map - NH also doesn’t have a seatbelt law which causes a lot more deadly crashes than if you were required to wear your seatbelt.
I instantly knew from the thumbnail that map was gonna be Dunkin Donuts locations.
I used to live in Humboldt County, California---and I can vouch for the fact that it gets very little sun. Even in summer sometimes the fog and low clouds remain until early afternoon. The sun comes out for 2 or 3 hours and then it's cloudy again.
Out west you are allowed to bike on the interstates simply because it's the only reasonable way to cross the states. As you go east that is not allowed because there are many non-interstate roads available.
I can't imagine anyone in their right mind riding a bicycle along the interstate. You have to have a death wish and/or enjoy riding on boring over-heated concrete breathing in polluted air.
@@kenbob1071Or you desire to get somewhere on a bike and it is the only way.
I just noticed the album in the background! Wu Tang is for the children! I love it.
Of all the careers, in retrospect, that I wish I had got into, cartography is first. Followed by linguistics. Instead, I studied history and ended up in the wine trade. A bit of all of those combined.
Not sure there are many jobs in cartography.
@@MirzaAhmed89There are plenty of jobs having to do with geographic information systems.
As a NH resident, what immediately stood out to me about the state borders as rectangles map, is that it has ME, NH, and VT meeting at a "three corners" point, which is incorrect. VT needs to slide down slightly (maybe by shortening MA) to disconnect VT from ME. I didn't do a thorough check of whether there are other instances of "three corners" boundary points being incorrect, though "Four Corners" certainly is done correctly.
I've recently started adding visits to "three corners" points to my road trip plans, as well as finding and re-surveying (with an old sub-centimeter accuracy GPS off eBay) various other types of survey and boundary markers, including ones marking SCOTUS decisions about state boundary disputes. Yes, some boundary markers have Supreme Court labeling rather than the usual USGS/etc.
The four corners is not done correctly according to my public school education.
Wonderful video as always Kyle, good job
4:20 i think a practical use would make itself clearer if you were to discretize this down into say a graph you could use for combinatorics problems/issues
The map about bars and DUI's, for New York it may be low due to a lot of people live NYC but not that many have their own cars so take cabs or the subway more than drive.
2:45 I have some questions about this map. 1. Why don’t the colors go from light to dark with how temperate, and obey the spectrum of light so orange is hotter and then it falls to yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet as you get colder? Everyone is more used to this organization of colors. Secondly, idk which color my area should be if it is 100° max temp every year, should it be in the 95° category or 104°?
3:44 Washington is actually pretty much just as wide as Oregon. There was no need for them to shorten it there. LOL!
That last map blew my wig back ❤
All hail the geography master, our king 👑 🙂
You mentioned your street trivia videos….have you ever thought of taking a trip up to Knoxville and doing one at UT? There’s also a pretty neat building that houses the geography department that might be worth checking out
As someone who lives in Mass i can confirm the Dunkin donuts are everywhere. The small town i live in has 2 for some reason
RE deer and highway accidents, maybe 20 years ago, a survey was taken noting that although the deer population in NY State was at an all time high (due to the reduction in predators) the number of deer being hit on the roads was going steadily down. It could be that there has been better fencing along highways. However, one theory was that the deer were actually getting smarter.
I noticed in Laurence D's map for his children that he doesn't count the 4 corners as a place where states border each other.
Do the states that sit diagonal from each other actually touch?
@@lewtube1They taught us in school that NM bordered 5 states including Utah but I could see not including it. 🤷🏻♀️
3:44 Michigan does border Minnesota on Lake Superior...
One of the very best map sets ever was one created for Wired, showing commission of the "seven deadly sins" using factual proxies for them, such as density of fast food restaurants for Gluttony, number of reported STD cases for Lust, and so on for all 7. Unsurprisingly, the US bible belt excelled in most of them.
One the West Coast, the only Dunkin Donuts in my entire county is located inside of a credit union.
Those are some really interesting maps!
Michigan also borders both Illinois (entirely in Lake Michigan) and Minnesota (entirely in Lake Superior). Also, New York and Rhode Island border each other in Long Island Sound. I am not sure how it would impact the map from 3:44 to 4:26, though that is accurate when it comes to non-water borders. Obviously the colors for those states would have to change on the map from 4:26 to 5:06, but that would be an easy change.
2:48 not sure if anyone else caught this, but look at san francisco! it really be foggy out here
I love these videos
Came here for the Mass maps. Stayed for the NHL birthplaces
I’m from Palm Beach and the areas just east of I-95 tend to be older, run down and likely to simply be there longer. They tend to be communities where immigrants from the Caribbean or Latin America come and start their new lives in America and come with very little.
Thank you for the info
That really depends where in the county. I lived in South County, and areas east of I-95 may have a few neighborhoods with immigrant and African American populations, but areas east of Rt. 1 and entire barrier islands tend to be wealthier-with many retirees-which may account for much of the lower incomes on the extreme coast (Town of Palm Beach excluded). In the extreme southeast (Boca Raton), most of the area east of 95 is middle and upper middle class.
3:45 That's what I call thinking out of the box in a boxy way😊
I'm curious about the map at 4:26. Specifically Four Corners, USA. Don't all 4 border each other at one specific point?? If so, Utah should be Yellow, Arizona and NM should be Green and Colorado should be Red. Right??
Nah
In a similar vein, it is interesting that WI MI IN IL are also "Four Corners, USA" if Lake Michigan is shrunk down to a single point.
I've had that question for a while. From a geometry standpoint, do two places that meet at a corner point border each other? Does Colorado border Arizona?
For most mathematical purposes, faces that share a vertex but not an edge are not considered adjacent, but have a weaker relationship that is a superset of adjacency. (Technically, the network graph of adjacency is the dual of the faces' edges network graph. ) If there's a conventional name for that corner-touching in geometry I've forgotten it.
@@BillRicker I ask this out of curiosity due to several active court cases involving a situation just like this. The debate is...are you trespassing on 2 other properties if you cross diagonally from one lot to another? Some courts are saying YES, it IS trespassing. Or, in this case, if you step from AZ to CO, you enter the properties of UT and NM in the process.
Nice contributions.
My first thought is that there are some nerdy people out there. Oh wait I’m watching a nerdy video…. Second thought is that there are some really talented people.
Very cool interesting maps y’all!!!!
For the bikes, I would guess fewer cyclists and straighter roads. Blind corners in the woods are way more dangerous than long straight grassland/desert highways.
Coincidentally, the map showing places where Dunkin is in Ma, well, that’s also where the police are in MA, as during my 35 years living there, it was very rare to see a Dunkin that didn’t have at least one police car in the parking lot… in Falmouth, MA once about 30 years ago,they had 4 police cars at their Dunkin on more than one occasion! It was so bad that a chief of police there once said that if he saw more than one police car there for more than 10 minutes, he’d fine those officers a days pay!
Love the NHL origins map. Southern Ontario and Quebec are just buried
Yeah you really have to zoom in on the source map to see all of the logos.
@@GeographyKingya, well you don't need a lot of accuracy since an emblem for a team doesn't tell you the player and in Southern Ontario, likely 15 to 20% of the league is there.
@@GeographyKing Is the source map publicly available to interact with (zoom in, etc.)?
What’s up with that middle bit in Massachusetts that seems to be bereft of Dunkins, yet there seems to be a city right in the middle? There’s a city seemingly bordered by nothing for miles.
People also don't necessarily even drive in densely urban areas, much less drive drunk. Even medium cities have more taxicabs and buses per capita; so again, don't need to drive or have a designated driver. I bet that map would look very different pre-MADD (mid-1980s).
need the next installment in this series asap
Yess new video!
4:41 colorado borders 7 states. It should be red based on the info given.
Mississippi recently got two coaster credits. They are both in Biloxi. An SBF visa at Paradise Pier at Margaritaville and a SDC Hurricane and a place called Big Play.
NM/UT and CO/AZ do both share a border though. It’s just infinitesimal.
The hockey maps were interesting
Vermont does have 2 Mountain coasters and Wyoming and Montana each have 1 (so technically 2 parks with credits). I'm guessing either 1. They don't count Mountain Coasters or 2. Mountain Coasters tend to be stand alone attractions, and including them would shoot up Tennessee's park count, so technically 47 states plus Guam have at least 1 roller coaster according to the Roller Coaster database. Despite Hawaii having a song called "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" they don't have, at least a permanent, roller coaster-and most traveling coasters aren't tracked unless they are set up at an amusement park at some point (That's just the site operator's rule)
Alaska does have a permanent coaster, its just on fairground property and not dismantled like in the case of the Washington State Fair where they keep two coasters (well one is wood) up year round (although one was moved just across the grounds and is considered a separate entry-which is kinda wired considering some rides have had changes to their experience, but remain as a single entry because the structure isn't really changed-although I would've made Top Thrill 2 a separate entry since they are adding new trackage that didn't exist before)
Thanks for all of that info!
Love that map of Mass. I live in the big swath of green in the West with my fellow hobbits and our pet dragons. We may not have Dunks, but we do have lots and lots of magical trees. And we do our best to keep the trolls at bay so the city folk can chug their iced regulars in peace.
challenge: found a route to the center of a city in Massachusetts that DOES NOT have you driving past a Dunks location.
Where should we submit maps we have created?
Read the video description. He explains it there.
Areas of MA that are within 10 minutes of a Dunkin's: the only reason the south shore isn't pink is that it takes 10 minutes to get out of your driveway and down the block there.
9:51 - Racial gentrification is the reason Palm Beach County is like that. Keep in mind, in 10-20 years most of what's now beach front property will be underwater unless drastic changes are made to combat our climate crisis. For those of you who still don't believe there is a climate crisis, I invite you to visit Miami Florida, where there are pumping station's set up now all over the city that run 24/7.
Well, so what? The costs imposed by making those "drastic changes" will dwarf those losses from the "climate crisis." Why should the rest of the world have to subsidize rich people who own beachfront property? You choose to buy there next to the ocean, tough luck.
thank you king
Does the Czech Republic now have a new way to pronounce it? 9:01 I never heard of Czechia before.
The Czech government directed use of Czechia as the official English short name in 2016, per Wiki.
@@tamarab5751 Thanks for that. So the Czech government tells the English speaking world, how to pronounce their country in English. I thought just the English name came up by what English speaking countries called them. So that means Rome, Italy, & Germany, can now Demand, that the English speaking world, refer to them as Roma, Italia, & Deutschland?
@@MikeCee7
Czechia was not the first country to do so. The government of Ivory Coast does not recognize any transaltions of the name of their country, so no matter which language you speak, you should call it "Côte d'Ivoire".
The Czech government's decision was a bit different, you can still call it "Czech Republic" as that is still the official full name of the country, "Czechia" is just the new official short name.
Which makes it probably the only country in existence, that does have an official short name in a foreign language, but not in it's own official language.
@@obrnenydrevokocur9344 Thanks for the information. So that’s kind of like when Michael Jackson self-proclaimed he wanted everyone to call him “The King of Pop”
& when Howard Stern self-proclaimed, he was: “The King of All Media”
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But unfortunately, Mariah Carey cannot claim she’s the “Queen of Christmas” because that title has already been trademark by someone else.
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I guess the Ivory Coast, better come over & sue me. Because I can’t pronounce or spell its desired name.
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& I now proclaim, that I want “Only” the country of “Czechia”, to call me. “King of Central Florida”😂
I caught a mistake in the State Borders map by Laurence. Michigan also borders Minnesota so Michigan should be purple (4) and not light blue (3).
Phenomenal map otherwise.
That Cape Cod trail map is a good one! My husband is from there. We also liked the Dunkin map - we've been to the one in Wellfleet that's your last chance before Provincetown lol.
It was also fun to try to find our Boston Bruins on the NHL maps. I learned there are NHL players from Alabama and South Carolina! Another commenter noted the lack of Alaska means Jeremy Swayman is inadvertently left out. I couldn't find which Blues player is from the UK though lol.
How could I get a copy of the South Dakota map? It's beautiful!
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Anyway to get a copy of that world temperature map?
I wish I could access the maps you list.
Maybe those coastal areas on the southern part of Palm Beach County are retirees with fixed incomes living in small condos?
The sunniest counties part was missing Redding, California
How is San Francisco as sunny as Albuquerque, NM?
You got Bay State right!
I have several critiques concerning the map made by Laurence D showing state borders as rectangles. Her map shows a 4 corners of WI, MI, IN, IL. That is incorrect. In fact, IL & MI share a border in Lake Michigan, east of Chicago. Fun fact, or at least I think it is a fact. I believe that it is the only border between states, in the lower 48, that involves no land border and is only a water border. Do you agree or disagree? Furthermore, one might argue about the 4 corners shown at VA, MD, & DE; or VT, NH, ME. Lengthening the height of MD or the width of NH to fully separate VA & DE and VT & ME would give the map more meaning considering the accuracy and implication the 4 corners of UT, AZ, NM, & CO are represented on the map. At least that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it for now. Nice map Laurence, I know it was a lot of work to put it together.
I agree about the map needing better treatment of ME/VT not actually meeting at all, even just at a point, etc. There are water-only borders between NY/RI and also MI/MN, in addition to MI/IL.
How is the 10 minutes to Dunkin map made?
Super interesting that the county Seattle is in gets more sunshine than the county Portland Oregon is in
Do the Four Corners states not count as bordering each other diagonally? Like, AZ should border Colorado and NM should border Utah, I would think
Yes, according to NM public schools the diagonal states count. Why? 🤷🏻♀️
@@johnnyearp52 Because in one of the maps they don't.
@@ReverendMeat51 I know the man didn't include them on his map. But the schools I went to said that the four corner states do count as touching. I don't know what the logic is either way.
Was wondering the same thing and for the same reason