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One giant map featuring every road in America:

This map, featuring every road in the United States of America, assembled by Reddit user WestCoastBestCoast94, looks like a cartographer\u2019s dream come true. It doesn\u2019t take an expert to glean information from the map, like the location of major cities \u2014 dark, tight webs \u2014 and mountains \u2014 long, thin stretches of white.\u00a0

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there\u2019s no map that the etc etc etc etc, but the bit around it going down into georgia usually doesn\u2019t

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Home.

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Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis.

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Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta\u2026

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William Gibson, Neuromancer

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I\u2019ve always figured that the Eastern Corridor ends in DC (maybe Richmond, but no one lives in Richmond), but it wouldn\u2019t surprise me if everyone south of NYC thinks they\u2019re on the southern end of it. (People who live in Boston, if that\u2019s all true, would think it ends in NYC.)

Do people in the Research Triangle think the corridor goes all the way to NC? Do people in Atlanta think it extends down there? Do people in Philadelphia or NYC think it ends with them?

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From personal experience Philly doesn’t think it’s the terminus, ‘cause AMTRAK keeps going down to DC.

Atlanta’s iffy, and you could almost make an argument that as spurs go Miami’s an equal, but between the “capital of black America” thing and all the Turner infrastructure it’s really the furthest west city that can really project cultural power until you hit the Pacific coast. (Maybe Vegas. Chicago and Houston somehow fell off a cultural cliff in 1996.)

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