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Flattest US states

Postby RyanSchilling » Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:56 pm

Thought this might be of interest to some of you.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a ... ke/284348/


One thing that sticks out to me is that Wyoming would be the fourth least-flat state (excluding AK & HI), despite it having quite a bit of flat terrain.
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Re: Flattest US states

Postby John Kirk » Tue Mar 11, 2014 3:59 pm

Yeah, that's interesting - I guess that sloping with few closed contours doesn't qualify as flat, thereby Nebraska is almost in the middle of the pack at 20 (western end of NE is in the 5k range while eastern is in the 1k range). It's more of an elevation consistency measure than a measure of being mountainous or not. Wyoming has 0.0325 peaks/sq. mile vs. Colorado's 0.0423 (CO's density is 30% more).
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Re: Flattest US states

Postby Al Sandorff » Tue Mar 11, 2014 6:05 pm

I think they are mixing up "flat" with "level". I would argue that something can be both sloped and flat. I'm curious how they number to 49 for the 48 states as well.
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Re: Flattest US states

Postby Brian Kalet » Tue Mar 11, 2014 8:30 pm

Al Sandorff wrote:I'm curious how they number to 49 for the 48 states as well.


They included D.C.
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Re: Flattest US states

Postby Al Sandorff » Tue Mar 11, 2014 8:34 pm

Thanks, duh I guess I should have figured that out
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