Peoria, Illinois/Land Usage
After having finished the Regional Geohash maps for the 50 United States, I thought about the next big thing I could work on. I was intrigued by the Land usage code that some graticules used to map out what's in their area. Instead of going that way, I decided to do a more empirical approach, and see where the geohashes have fallen in the Peoria graticule since 2000-01-01. I worked on and off over the last year to look individually at each daily geohash (>4000 days for the initial 11 years), and log the coordinates and what type of land it was. I organized everything in an Excel spreadsheet and graphed the results, seen below. --Dvdllr 12:08, 20 July 2011 (EDT)
As of 2011-12-31, there have been 4383 locations since 2000-01-01.
Color key, in descending order of frequency:
| Color | Type | Count | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow | farms/crop fields | 3069 | 70.02% |
| Dark green | forests/woods | 503 | 11.48% |
| Pink | grass/dirt/open space | 322 | 7.35% |
| Purple | residential property | 205 | 4.68% |
| Blue | water | 128 | 2.92% |
| Grey | roads | 75 | 1.71% |
| Orange | businesses | 55 | 1.25% |
| Aqua | parking lots | 8 | 0.18% |
| Red | schools/colleges | 6 | 0.14% |
| Bright green | golf courses | 5 | 0.11% |
| Black | railroads | 4 | 0.09% |
| Brown | cemeteries | 3 | 0.07% |
