It’s a light pollution map!
Satellite image at night.
This looks like a nasa image in their series “earth at night”. Looks like they do this every few years; they did one in 2012 and in 2016. Every once in a while I get a hankering to check it out, and for a while I could never remember what they were called.
Here’s the USA specific one from 2016: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/photograph-united-states-night
Here’s the global version: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/NightLights/page3.php
I named it Gerald.
The community is called No Stupid Questions but apparently it does have stupid answers.
Okay in all seriousness, this kind of comment is not helping the asker at all.
Maybe not, but it apparently helped mildly amuse significantly more folks than it pissed off so I’m happy with it.
To me it looks more like a Bertha.
idk, a light map? you trying to Google it? or just for the trivia knowledge?
Nighttime satellite light map?
Thanks
What color is this dress?
Black and gold
Don’t get me started, it white and…!
satellite map.
Baaabbbaaaa yeettuuuu yeettuuuu leeeyyaaaiiie… 🎶
If you’re talking data viz, maybe a dichromatic chloropleth geo chart or a hot spot/density map?
Yeah heat map seems to be the most generic term for it.
Crazy how sparsely populated the US is west of Dallas, TX.
It’s mostly desert and mountains
Where’s Waldo?
!solved
The east / west division in the cost of light bulbs.
Slightly off-topic but recently I saw a bunch of these under the rayshader tag on mastodon, seems like https://fosstodon.org/@terence posts a lot of them if you want to check some out (edit: I might want to clarify that they are likely generated based on data rather than photos from space, though)
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Not gonna lie. These are dope. Should sell high resolution online