This visualization shows two quantitative dimensions at once, on a 150 meter square grid in a study area in California. The base color is a category of land use, and the gray shading is a percentage of developable acreage. The number on each grid cell, drawn using QGis, is synonymous with the gray shade.
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Stage of Summarization
Here grid cells are classified into three types by landuse, and county parcels are split along grid cell boundaries, in preparation for computing a result stored into a database table of grid cells as table rows. Note that roadways, water bodies and some public lands are correctly absent in net calculations, but since the area […]