It Sort of Makes Sense

[kevin_standlee]

Part of the work I'm doing on The Big Project involves plotting the geographic centroid of each US state and picking out a city to stand for that state's centroid. This doesn't always work well for odd sized states. It appears, for instance, that the geographic centroid of Maryland is Washington DC.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I curious how that works for Michigan. I'm guessing it's in the middle of some forest in the northern lower peninsula where nobody lives.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

It's near Mount Pleasant.

[(Anonymous)]

If it's near Mt. Pleasant that probably means you only looked at the lower peninsula and ignored the upper peninsula entirely.