Mapping Australia by the Nearest City with a Population of 100,000 or More

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nah, as a Bendigonian, this is fucked up erasure and a NSW psyops misinformation campaign.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ok I reverse image searched it, and apparently it’s at least 7 years old. Since Bendigo was at 103,000 in 2021, I’m guessing it just missed out on the cutoff in 2018.

    Tagging @BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where’s Didjabringabeeralong?

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• BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wollongong, Newcastle and Geelong are cities, but not Bendigo?

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• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think “nearest city” is the best description.

  It looks like, ABS identifies every urban area with at least 10,000 people, and then tags it with “the most relevant” centre in the region, or something like that.

  So it’s something like, the way in which ABS divides localities into statistically useful segments.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not sure I take your meaning. As best I can tell, it’s simply a Varonoi diagram centred on Australia’s cities of over 100k. The only complicated bit is how they chose the exact centre point of each city, especially Sunshine Coast and Central Coast. How the lines are drawn doesn’t seem to be based on any statistical data beyond that.

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    • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isn’t the city centre usually defined as the post office?

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  • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a Voronoi diagram. It’s nearest distance (in a straight line, not by road).

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• cornshark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here’s the same map for Canada, according to AI. Image

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah yes, SHE̶P̴RδBORE, Montana, my favourite Canadian city.

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• Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People often ask why house prices are so high when we have so much space?

  Then you realise how insanely clustered our population is with something like the visual representation here.

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  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To someone who doesn’t know where the population clusters are, this map isn’t a good visual representation.

    Also, clustered populations isn’t really the reason for our house prices being what they are.

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t see how you can possibly call Central Coast a single city, it’s at least 3 rather distinct urban areas.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s because legally, it’s part of a single Local Government Area. The same could be said of the Sunshine Coast, which contains 6 different sub-regions according to Wikipedia, and frankly I think that’s cutting it short (I count roughly 10 distinct towns). And, though it’s not included on this map (presumably because it’s considered part of “Greater Brisbane”) Moreton Bay City has at least 3 distinct areas (Redcliffe/North Lakes, Pine Rivers/Strathpine, Caboolture. And each of those slashes could almost be separated too).

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  the more meaningful way to map australia

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• Tenderizer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lets make these all the new states. Abolish the 6 (and 2 territories) we have and replace them with these.

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  • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bioregions would make a lot more sense. Use catchments and biome boundaries, because those are the units that need coherent management. They would correspond a bit, but not quite.

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