Voronoi fun
Nah, as a Bendigonian, this is fucked up erasure and a NSW psyops misinformation campaign.
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Voronoi fun
Nah, as a Bendigonian, this is fucked up erasure and a NSW psyops misinformation campaign.
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
I don’t see how you can possibly call Central Coast a single city, it’s at least 3 rather distinct urban areas.
Wollongong, Newcastle and Geelong are cities, but not Bendigo?
the more meaningful way to map australia
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.
It’s a Voronoi diagram. It’s nearest distance (in a straight line, not by road).
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.
Isn’t the city centre usually defined as the post office?
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.
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.
Lets make these all the new states. Abolish the 6 (and 2 territories) we have and replace them with these.
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.
shalafi@lemmy.world 43 minutes ago
Where’s Didjabringabeeralong?