Census (dot)Map....zoomable

Census Dotmap

Zoomable dot map of 2010 US Census

What's all this?This is a map of every person counted by the 2010 US Census. The map has 308,450,225 dots - one for each person.Why?I wanted an image of human settlement patterns unmediated by proxies like city boundaries, arterial roads, state lines, &c. Also, it was an interesting challenge.Who is responsible for this?The US Census, mostly. I made the map. I'mBrandon Martin-Anderson.Kieran Huggins came to the rescue with spare server capacity and technical advice after this got Boing Boing'd.