![]() ![]() I marvel at the goodness of visualization every time a table is accribitzed into a map. While Craigslist shows their own point-map of sites, we need to be more specific, since we’re turning them into polygons. I went to Craigslist’s sites page, and copied all the sites for the United States, dropped them into an Excel table (splitting up all the multi-city sites) and geocoded them. Let’s take a crack at generating some new states, based on pragmatic economic zones. ![]() If you’ve ever read this book, or watched this show, you are keenly aware that the United States were carved out in a surprisingly arbitrary, and sometimes accidental, fashion. Ok, time to start dragging our fingernails down this map… How These States Got Their Shapes This will save you lots of time! Also included is the over-the-top-skeuomorphic image overlay with cute little pieces of chalk and dusty corners, etc. ![]() ![]() It’s not easy making a texture image that repeats without obvious edge patterns. This is the green chalkboard texture used for the background. #A real chalkboard zip#Chalkboard Image Assets (a zip with two PNG images).I’ll show you how it was made, but in the meantime just cheat and download the results. #A real chalkboard manual#You are welcome! This represents lots of dissolving (for multi-location sites), and manual crafting (so orphaned peninsulas actually get assigned to the most drive-able site).
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