Difference between revisions of "Peoria, Illinois/Land Usage"

Latest revision as of 16:50, 2 September 2015

After having finished the Regional Geohash maps for the 50 United States, I thought about the next big thing I could work on. I was intrigued by the Land usage code that some graticules used to map out what's in their area. Instead of going that way, I decided to do a more empirical approach, and see where the geohashes have fallen in the Peoria graticule since 2000-01-01. I worked on and off over about a year to look individually at each daily geohash (>4000 days for the initial 11 years), and log the coordinates and what type of land it was. I organized everything in an Excel spreadsheet and graphed the results, seen below.

After completing everything from 2000 to present, I continued to maintain the log daily, but didn't attempt to go further back in history for another year and a half or so. I started working backward in time until I gave up in the early '90s. Dvdllr 12:50, 2 September 2015 (EDT)

There have been 7773 locations since 1993-09-25.

Color key, in descending order of frequency:

Color	Type	Count	Percent
Yellow	farms/crop fields	5441	70.00%
Dark green	forests/woods	891	11.46%
Pink	grass/dirt/open space	615	7.91%
Purple	residential property	349	4.49%
Blue	water	205	2.64%
Grey	roads	124	1.60%
Orange	businesses	102	1.31%
Aqua	parking lots	15	0.19%
Red	schools/colleges	11	0.14%
Bright green	golf courses	8	0.10%
Black	railroads	6	0.08%
Brown	cemeteries	6	0.08%

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 After having finished the [[Regional geohashing achievement|Regional Geohash]] [[:Category:Regional geohash map|maps]] for the 50 United States, I thought about the next big thing I could work on.  I was intrigued by the [[Land usage]] code that some graticules used to map out what's in their area.  Instead of going that way, I decided to do a more empirical approach, and see where the geohashes have fallen in the [[Peoria, Illinois|Peoria]] graticule since 2000-01-01.  I worked on and off over about a year to look individually at each daily geohash (>4000 days for the initial 11 years), and log the coordinates and what type of land it was.  I organized everything in an Excel spreadsheet and graphed the results, seen below.
-After completing everything from 2000 to present, I continued to maintain the log daily, but didn't attempt to go further back in history for another year and a half or so.  What I am doing now is that every week, I'll log another month of historical dates for this graticule into the map.
+After completing everything from 2000 to present, I continued to maintain the log daily, but didn't attempt to go further back in history for another year and a half or so.  I started working backward in time until I gave up in the early '90s. [[User:dvdllr|Dvdllr]] 12:50, 2 September 2015 (EDT)
-I intend to update the map online annually.  Since the DJIA goes back to 1928-10-01, and I can complete 52 months a year, I ought to be done in about 15 years or so (assuming I still live in this graticule by then). [[User:dvdllr|Dvdllr]] 11:30, 5 January 2015 (EST)
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-As of 2015-01-05, there have been 7773 locations since 1993-09-25.
+There have been 7773 locations since 1993-09-25.
 Color key, in descending order of frequency:<br/>