Land use in the US

This is a weird ass pie chart using the US map as a base right? If I am correct then this is a terrible way to display this data.

Seems like I'm getting 3 reactions to this map:

Neat map
I don't understand this map
I will find you and kill your family for this crime against data

Because everyone else is shitting on it - I just wanna let you know OP that I actually liked this map

I'd suggest a merger between '100 largest landowning families' and 'Food we eat'.

Why isn't parking on here?

expected more corn

"Food we eat" is half the size of "livestock feed". Plus look at how small wetlands/deserts are, wetlands especially are essential to climate resillience. What egregiously bad land use, wow. Thanks for this post, it's great.

I have examined this abstraction of a map thoroughly.

I do not see any garbage dumps, recycling facilities, sewage processing, cemeteries, energy production, water production...

I could carry on, but this map means almost nothing with all sorts of factors missing.

I resent the hell out of that golf pimple.

It is absolutely blowing my mind how many people are looking at this and thinking that is trying to show, like, primary land use per block on the map or something?

Like it's well-known that maple syrup comes exclusively from northwest PA, plus all the logging that happens in downtown San Francisco and LA.

the amount of land for cows is crazy. and the fact that more land goes to livestock feed than food we eat is interesting as well

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What's a weirghourhdmsjrhrht?

How much is native reservations

I'm curious why first nation reservations weren't demarcated. Or maybe they were and I'm just an idiot lol.

Disgusting how much space Golf takes up.

It's not really the USA without Alaska (and other extracontinental territories, but their landmass probably isn't large enough to change anything).

Or is Alaska included, which would make the presentation of the data even more confusion as it wouldn't even be too scale.

Funny things if there was regular controlled fire, there would have none wildfire...

What does idle/fallow mean for Michigan?

California also uses their lands for wildfires, they even have a fire season now. Don't forget to give credit where credit is due!

I always knew Michigan was an unproductive POS /s

I'd like to let you all know that I'm running for Senate in 2024 for the Idle/Fallow areas.

I promise to keep the status quo.

Mmmm tobacco city.

suburbs take up less place than i expected

Nice, guess I'm on team Food we eat!

Uh where the hell are roads on this chart?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot “food we eat”?

Field corn and soybeans are STRICTLY for animal (specifically cow, pig sheep and chicken) consumption. Food we eat is from California.

I have to tell you, there's plenty of farmed land on the entire west coast this map does not depict. Less than half of the areas labeled timberlands are forested, as a generous estimate.

Edit: as the comments under this state, I just didn't understand what was being represented and how.

I hate, hate, HATE this. It implies the main land-use is the only use. Do people in the Midwest simply commute 2,000 miles a day, since that's where the housing is? This belongs in c/UglyInaccurateData...

Wow, look how much more land would be available if we just stopped eating cows!!!! /s

Central Texas is mostly used for defense? Since when? Everywhere I look around it’s tech.

That makes no sense for Michigan at all. I’d imagine Michigan land use is mostly forest (so much national forest/protected wetlands here), then agriculture, then urban space (Metro Detroit is most of this), then a little pasture. The only way “idle” makes sense to me is if any protected forest/natural land is considered “idle”