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lazarogamioon Maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure

I'm still reading :)

Sorry for this, I'll look into something to make this easier for you in the article.

In the meanwhile, we published some high-res versions of the maps on reddit, which hopefully are better for you.

Electric grid: https://i.redd.it/2nkdq2bx101y.jpg Pipelines: https://i.redd.it/mu945myovz0y.jpg Airports: https://i.redd.it/m9p0mpy2wz0y.jpg Ports: https://i.redd.it/2khvrwe6201y.jpg Bridges: https://i.redd.it/enf1rtz9z21y.jpg

lazarogamioon Maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure

We love QGIS. Open source for life!

lazarogamioon Maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure

We use QGIS at the Post, which is open source. For organizing shapefiles, we don't really use anything fancy, just a shared folder. If we find something very useful, we put it in there.

lazarogamioon Maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure

Hey there, I was involved in making these maps.

You're absolutely correct. We used point data from BTS (http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...), and did not filter out non-train station types.

We're fixing this now.