The Beauty Of Knowing How To Share Data Properly

I want to just personally thank the people at Bloomberg for putting this wonderful assemblage of land use data for our nation out. This is just a stunningly useful overview, and inventory, of what we have going on right now as concerns land usage.

Everybody should see this. Ponder it, and keep it in mind because that is going to be part of what "taking responsibility for ourselves" is all about. This kind of data and understanding it. And man alive, wouldn't it be something if we could have a vastly more comprehensive inventory of all of what this nation is capable of?

Of not only all of the land property, but all of the intellectual property? All of the full productive property? All of the full resource, and flow channels, in who's ever control, we might be given one hell of a shock about, as in just how capable we really are right now, if we knew? If only it were in public hands, and not exclusively in the hands of a completely self interested few?

Just more to think about. And you better get used to that too if you value your life at all.

WE DON'T LIVE IN MOST OF IT

Here's How America Uses Its Land

13 diggs Bloomberg Data Viz

The US Department of Agriculture divides the US into six major types of land. The data can’t be pinpointed to a city block — each square on the map represents 250,000 acres of land. But piecing the data together state-by-state can give a general sense of how US land is used.