Re:Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles
by kylebarron on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:37PM
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Oh hi Sergio! Hope you're doing well. I'm not in the economics field anymore, but it would be cool to see if an economist could use this data. It's probably a little harder to use because you'd have to apply some vectorization techniques on the maps to get more usable road network data.
Re:Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles
by zzleeper on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:12AM
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Definitely true! But if there's a good question then that's definitely doable.
Also I noted your change of field; your github repos and starred repos that pop up on my github main page are much more interesting that the usual r/stata repos
Thanks agains for the contributions, GIS and carto are definitely a super fun and useful field with a greater bang-for-the-buck than most economic papers!
This looks amazing! I wouldn't be surprised if this can be useful for e.g. urban economics, to compute measures of how cities and urban areas grew. Like LA eating into the San Fernando Valley, for instance.