- The framerate and latency on this visualization is absolute magic. Hover the mouse around over the sphere: https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/
by the_origami_fox
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- South Africa is split into 4 segments. Johannesburg is not a capital. Otherwise South Africa has 3 capital cities - administrative (Pretoria), legislative (Cape Town) and judicial (Bloemfontein) - but Pretoria is informally considered the "main" capital.
- 2014
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by Beretta_Vexee
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- Perhaps you should limit it to capital cities or states with a certain population size. Including all the European microstates does not seem appropriate to me; Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican have very varying degrees of independence and geopolitical significance.
- The Vatican is surrounded on all sides by Rome. It is on the boundary of Municipio I (historical center) and Municipio XIII (Aurelia), however. So is Municipio I considered the "actual" capital of Italy?
Also, the Vatican is the Holy See (as in seat), not Holy Sea (as in water)...
by maybewhenthesun
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- Very nice.
I guess most dutchies would disagree with the decision to pick De Hague as the Main Capital, though :-)
While all power is in De Hague , Amsterdam definitely is the Capital. De Hague is for complaining about, Amsterdam is for celebrating.
- It would be interesting to see a map which was not minimizing [distance to capital] but instead minimized [distance to capital]/sqrt([national population]). The latter would be more robust against Sybil attacks.
by wood_spirit
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- Related post from same site earlier this week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385457
by spprashant
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- It took me this map to realize the capital of Sri Lanka is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, and not Colombo as I thought for over 30 years.
Always interesting to find capital cities which are in fact not the most famous cities from that country. Makes for great trivia questions.
- Suppose right before this re-bordering takes place, the countries are given the chance to change the capitals' location. Suppose further that they all do it to maximize the area after re-bordering.
I wonder how much the result will differ?
by forthwall
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- Interesting, if a country has multiple capitals, it gets split even more!
- Looks like it uses seven colors (including bodies of water). Can it be done with fewer colors? The four color theorem does not quite apply, as all bodies of water have to be the same color.
- New Risk board released
- I don't know who would be more upset - the UK for losing so much to Ireland or France for losing a little bit to the UK.
- Taipei claiming a big chunk of the PRC. Probably go down as well as Ottawa and Mexico City claiming big chunks of the USA
- @jasondavies, if you're still taking small enhancement requests - a fullscreen button (for the visualization, not the whole page) would be fabulous
- I would love to see some stats with this. What countries gain/loss the most? Which countries are the last changed? What areas are the now the most countries away from their original country?
by gnoll_of_gozag
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- would be interesting to see one that takes into account things like railroads or terrain ruggedness
- I think Montevideo’s slice of Antarctica is the craziest.
- the choice of which city makes it into a dot seems very arbitrary, just for my corner of the woods, I see Genova and Lyons are omitted even they they are larger than their dot-neighbours on this map...
- Now the corollary. For each country, given existing borders, place the capital directly in the geographic area centroid? Population centroid? Which capitals move most?
by martinclayton
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- Dublin knabs a decent chunk of Great Britain, Copenhagen gets southern Sweden. Seems fair.
- I find it very funny to imagine Keralam and Tamil Nadu part of Sri Lanka.
by NathanielBaking
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- Madison, Canada. Now I just need to sell this to the Canadians.
- I want to see one a diagram which includes the oceans too
by Georgelemental
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- Hmm, looks like it models capital cities as a single point, and therefore assigns much more territory to Vatican City than would a model that took into account Rome's city boundaries
- Huh, Canada seems roughly intact (except for BC).
by legostormtroopr
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- Speedrun: Starting World War III, any%
- If country boundaries were Voronoi diagrams with respect to their capitals.
by raverbashing
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- The funny thing about this is that it's almost realistic
But in fact of course geography plays a big part
That "non-existent" country between France and Spain would actually be the center of Occitan/Langues d'Oc. (Well, it's actually the location of Andorra)
It is also in the middle of the Pyrenees so of course that is going to push population out to the sides
Same thing for where the areas "bleed over" water regions or some rivers
- Great work.
- Ukraine's capital is misspelled "Kiev". Should be "Kyiv"
- I really enjoyed this.
by bwestergard
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- Seems right, ship it.
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