That... actually looks better than 95% of the redraw-the-states maps I've seen. Math is always the answer!

It puts my birth city under the suzerainty of Salt Lake City.

I FEEL UNCLEANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

It would be interesting to see the very same map but extended to the whole globe.

http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/capitals/

of course it has been done

Unfortunately, the page that I used to make that is having a random 502 error at the moment. We'll try later.

Would be interesting to see a probable electoral college map for that setup. I feel like we'd have a lot more swing states, because every single state would be guaranteed to have a major metro area as well as, in most cases, a large hinterland. Would Minneapolis still be a Democratic stronghold now that it's swallowed up most of the Dakotas? Would the various states of Texas still be under GOP lockdown?

[EDIT: I also wonder if you could do congressional districts this way- although it would be a stretch for mega-cities like New York that have more than one district within their borders.]

[EDIT: Works...I tried making a map for Canada's ten biggest metro areas. Three provinces are headquartered in south-eastern Ontario, of course.]

Alas, only with country capitals, not with the 160 or so most populated cities AFAIK

quoting Torco, Conversational Speaker:

http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/capitals/

of course it has been done

No, no. I mean the same map above but extended (prolonging the borders as they are shown) to the whole globe.

Oh, like, with a large swathe of mainland china under californian jurisdiction and stuff ?

Here's a map of the world, if only its twenty largest metro areas were capitals:



Africa, if only the largest city in each country were a capital:



Europe:



North America:



South America:



Most of Asia:



Australia...I didn't do the rest of Oceania.

quoting Torco, Conversational Speaker:

Oh, like, with a large swathe of mainland china under californian jurisdiction and stuff ?

Exactly. That would mean Europe (or most of it) under Bostonian administration, I guess?

ROMA FORTIS

Is that an althistory version, or algorithms going crazy?

AVSTRALIA INSVLA EST

I think perhaps it includes the territories of Spain and Britain at some point in the 17th or 18th century. Less of a Roman Empire, more of a Roman-Empire-and-its-successors—though you'd think more of Russia would be covered.

The trenches of WW1 - Germans in blue, Allies in Red.



Original here.

http://map.ipviking.com/

Courtesy of Brel.

Found on Reddit with the caption "How I, as an amateur historian and geopolitical researcher would divide the world into "civilizations"."



Holy 19th-century pseudo-anthropology, Batman!

In what way? Looks reasonable to me. I mean, I would've done it differently...

"enlightened" african??? also, why are there multiple muslim civilizations but only one western civilization?

Proposed names for Pluto's geography.



Larger here (3600 x 1800 px)

And Charon.



Larger here (3600 x 1800 px)