That’s interesting and random. I think time to coast would be a better measure and look quite a bit different, especially seeing as this map counts the Great Lakes as “coastal”, which I don’t think fits the definition. The lakes are called the “third coast” jokingly, but coastal is seashore, not freshwater.
The measurement is “counties” away from the coast. Not miles nor km.
I realise now its literally in the title but for some reason the terminology did not compute and i just kept reading it as miles.
I thought there was something seriously off with this map or that it was a good example of the mercator distortion and had started to compare distances between cities.
Interestingly enough it wan ai (claude) that pointed this out from just the raw pic.
“The methodology of measuring by county units rather than strict distance creates an interesting visualization ”
I am also very upset about the great lakes.
Is the border of the great lakes really considered a coast?
Yes they are a type of coast, because of the size of the great lakes being comparable to seas even though they aren’t saltwater. It doesn’t meet the maritime concept, which is based on seas, but they are often referred to as either shores or coastline depending on context.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_coastline
I wish the state boundaries were a bolder line overlay
