[OC] Ich habe alle 97.000 Orte in den zusammenhängenden USA visualisiert.

Hey everyone! Thanks for checking out my project. Let me provide a little more context on what you’re seeing 🙂

– Data Source: OSM dataset, filtered for all nodes tagged as place (city, town, village, hamlet). This resulted in over 97,000 unique localities.

– Tool: my custom script.

– Process: The script plots a single white dot for each locality at its precise geographic coordinates.

The size of all dots is the same – whether it’s New York City or a tiny hamlet in Nevada. This isn’t a map of population size, but of settlement presence.

For me it feels less like a map and more like staring at the galaxy 🙂 I found it really beautiful Art and wanted to share with a community that might appreciate it. Happy to answer any questions!

Crazy how Nevada’s outline is pretty visible. It’s an empty state.