If you were to redraw the borders of the individual states, what system would you use and what would be the final outcome?
If you were to redraw the borders of the individual states, what system would you use and what would be the final outcome?
Rules:
- You could add or remove states.
Outcomes:
- What impact would the new borders have?
Voronoi partitions around major cities. States would be very angular, but the logic is simple.
Oooh that's neat. Using the Manhattan distance makes for a slightly nicer set of borders.
The hard part is deciding the criteria for what constitutes a major city. Some places are easy: cities like Las Vegas or Kansas City don't have any large, competing population centers nearby. But would Sacramento be considered a major city, or would it be under San Francisco's umbrella?
Some small cities like Fargo or Bismarck are still significant population centers relative to their regions. Would they be independent or fall within the state of a larger but very distant city like Minneapolis?
One could use population as the generator weight.
Perhaps for all incorporated cities/towns/whatever then do a higher order application to group those.
You'd definitely have to answer some questions like "How many states do we want?", but Fargo/Bismarck would just become the centers of counties if they don't make the cut for being separate states.
Beat me to it!