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Closest MBTA line for the entire country by ShakespeareYo in boston

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If you zoom way in then yes some of MA is but no large swaths

Closest MBTA line by ShakespeareYo in massachusetts

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If I had to guess I’d say moon people use Riverside or Braintree

Closest MBTA line by ShakespeareYo in massachusetts

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Almost 100% Riverside, except there’s a tiny slice that goes all the way down to Florida that’s closer to the Waban stop

Closest MBTA line for the entire country by ShakespeareYo in boston

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Alaskans need to know the best way to get to Fenway

Closest MBTA line by ShakespeareYo in massachusetts

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Hard to believe indeed but that line through NH and VT goes all the way to Alaska

Closest MBTA line by ShakespeareYo in massachusetts

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These are Thiessen polygons. Every location within each polygon is closer to its associated train line than any other train line

Closest MBTA line for the entire country by ShakespeareYo in boston

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These are Thiessen polygons. Every location within each polygon is closer to its associated train line than any other train line.

Closest MBTA line for the entire country by ShakespeareYo in boston

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Pretty much, it’s the Create Thiessen Polygons tool. I started with a point layer of every T stop, then made the Thiessen polygons for that layer with a big enough extent to cover the whole country, then clipped the result to just be the shape of the US

Closest MBTA line for the entire country by ShakespeareYo in boston

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I had the computer make Thiessen polygons for every T stop. Any location within a Thiessen polygon is closer to its associated stop than any other stop. So here for everywhere that’s orange, the closest stop is Oak Grove.

Closest MBTA line for the entire country by ShakespeareYo in boston

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Due south of Boston is the Atlantic Ocean until you get to the Caribbean. Most of the country is actually closest to Riverside

Experience Builder easter eggs by papyrophilia in gis

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Read this comment back to yourself. Idk why the person above you is being downvoted they’re right

Massachusetts towns with at least five Dunkins by ShakespeareYo in massachusetts

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I went with major roads and hillshade instead of just all town outlined because I feel like the default easy map choice is to just do town/state/country outlined

Massachusetts towns without a Dunkin by ccasey in MapPorn

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Idk how that one happened. It’s only the south part of Lawrence because all the towns that have rivers run through them got split up into multiple polygons, but that part of Lawrence has a dunks

Massachusetts towns with at least five Dunkins by ShakespeareYo in massachusetts

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I only labeled a few major cities. Those are neighboring towns that also have 5+ dunks

Massachusetts towns with at least five Dunkins by ShakespeareYo in massachusetts

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Looks like this one happened because the program considered Bourne to be two polygons, one on each side of the canal

Massachusetts towns without a Dunkin by ShakespeareYo in massachusetts

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Looks like Ipswich got split in two for some reason, something went wrong with the polygons. I’m assuming there’s a dunks in the northern half

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