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jstanleyyesterday at 9:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

Doesn't work outside the US sadly.


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yabonesyesterday at 9:24 PM

Indeed, it doesn't seem to think that the fairly large cities of Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, and Thunder Bay have a population of approximately zero. Anywhere in northern Montana has the "beam" shoot all the way over to Maine before reaching 100K, which isn't quite right since it passes through a couple medium Canadian cities and dozens of prairie towns.

I think this tool would be much more interesting in the western US if they had incorporated Canadian census data as well.

embedding-shapeyesterday at 10:02 PM

It does say that it only works in contiguous US (so no Alaska nor Hawaii nor "abroad" :D ), but seems it also works in Bahamas, for some reason, which as far as I know, isn't part of the contiguous US (yet?).