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I have examined this abstraction of a map thoroughly.
I do not see any garbage dumps, recycling facilities, sewage processing, cemeteries, energy production, water production...
I could carry on, but this map means almost nothing with all sorts of factors missing.
Without digging in to the numbers further than just looking at this map, could this be because the relative areas of the factors you listed didn't pass a threshold to make it? @ezmack what data source was used for this?
Bloomberg article https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/#xj4y7vzkg
Not OP, but I'd think cemeteries should outweigh golf courses in land area.
Feel free to prove me wrong though.
I think you might underestimate golf course land use, as well as miss that a lot of that mightve just been counted with the surrounding neighborhoods, since that's more of a community service
Urban-commercial
its also missing the fact that tons of animal pastures is on federal land.
Those take up less space than you'd think
Well, I grew up on 60 acres with like 18 horses and 25 goats. Can't say I've visited every farm out there to know how large or how cramped they might be.