Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by privong 3313 days ago
> I'd like to see the same map but excluding national parks/public spaces.

This is a major aspect, I think. A lot of land in the west is federally owned. This NY Times article[0] states that 47% of the land in the western US is owned by the Federal Government. It doesn't look like there's 1-1 overlap between the empty census blocks and the federal land ownership, though.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/upshot/why-the-government...