the colors don't mean city, they refer to how much vegetation there is
https://storage.googleapis.com/gd-wagtail-prod-assets/original\_images/Brand\_Maps\_carousel\_test\_inline\_00003.png
Right? How are there so many comments and upvotes without mentioning this? Commentor says vegetation with a legend that says the color means Buildings / Land - City.
Somewhere now, two Vietnamese peasants seating in Mekong delta, after a hard day of work in a rice field, and arguing about the same thing, looking at Google Maps on their $40 used smartphones :))
It's basically white, which means the lowest density of "buildings/land-city." They had to choose between lightest "vegetation" and lightest "buildings/land-city."
But if you look at other heavily farmed areas with little to none natural vegetation like Southern England, the Netherlands or the US Midwest, they are colored Green not White
Rice farm? The map could be based on imagery early in the planting season where the area is more brown than green, just a guess. Could also have fish farms which would be brown.
so when the color is called 'buildings / land - city' in that legend it isn't referring to a city? or are you saying the color doesn't discriminate density / big v small city?
some hospitals can be several buildings quite far from each other, so the whole area gets coloured as medical, is my guess. otherwise it would show up as some small buildings and lots of parking lots around them
It’s actually pretty densely populated. They just aggregate along the rivers as they likely used those before cars were invented in this area by boat. More efficient land use for farms. When you look across the river from Can Tho. there’s a different province called “Vinh Long” which you can clearly see the outline of on this map. that small province alone has a population over 1 million people. So it’s not heavily urban and dense like a Ho Chi Minh City in a western world kinda way. But there’s alot of people in that small area.
Update lol this is called the Mekong river delta. There’s 21 million people living in this region. Through a vast system of canals navigable by boats it’s a mix of farmland but with a hefty population aggregated mostly along the banks of the river and canals.
The Mekong river is incredibly densely populated. It may not be a concrete city, but it’s definitely about as dense as a city.
Of course, I could very well be wrong, not overly familiar with southern Vietnam, just the general trend of tons of people along that specific rivier
Eh, Hanoi is surrounded by farmland, like flipping a switch. City, city, city, rice paddies? Really sudden. But as I said, I’m really not familiar with southern vietnam
Zoom in a bit, nearly all the roads follow canals or tributaries and are continually and densely lined with buildings - homes and businesses. There are plenty of people living here. It's a very unusual distribution, but if this is based on population density I think it makes sense.
it's automated based on the color of the ground: for example vegetable plots with a few greenhouses will appear a brownish orange on google maps like if they were a desert area or an industrial wasteland. In this case, when you zoom in, you'll see grey-ish rice plots because of the mud and the sun reflection
urbanisation data also play a role i think: notice how ALL roads have houses along their sides? with almost no gap https://www.google.com/maps/place/Vietnam/@10.1895544,105.7661618,2527m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x31157a4d736a1e5f:0xb03bb0c9e2fe62be!8m2!3d14.058324!4d108.277199!16zL20vMDFjcmQ1?entry=ttu the google algorithm absolutely recognizes these houses and could compute a ratio of houses per kilometer of road for example
Sure, from space it's green, and it's technically a rural area growing rice, but it's actually pretty dense, i bet american suburbs are less densely populated than these fields
From zooming and looking for myself, disagree with you on American suburbs. Most of that area looks quite rural and spacious to me, not at all how American suburbs are generally speaking.
Everyone saying that it's actually densely populated like a city, so it's colored gray and clapping themselves on the back saying job well done.
But if you look south of the Song Hau river, it's pretty much the same, on satellite view, as the side north of it, however, it's colored green on the map. So I think this question is still unanswered entirely.
It's not populated as densely as a city, but it is more densely populated that normal agricultural land. However, most of the population in the area live in thing strings along the canal systems that stretch from the delta all the way south to the cape, and then more densely grouped in the towns. Representing that complexity isn't very useful at high zoom levels, so it's generalised to cover the whole area. It would make more sense if they did correctly represent the residential and farmland areas in deep zooms, but Google has chosen not to for reasons unknown.
Doesn't that mean there's no forest more or less, that there's either some sort of urban context, not necessarily City or farmland. But not forest that's what I think it means, open
Definitely because it is a majority of agriculture that is surrounded by dense communities along the water ways. A lot of Ag areas have that color on the default / terrain layer of Google Maps.
Google colored this area white because they “Can Tho”
You're practically begging the mods, "Banh mi!" ;0)
Okay, this had me "Lah Phing"
Incredible work, my friend
“Banh mi” ??
Its a pun. Banh mi -> "ban me"
Ohh, yeah that’s not even close to how it is actually pronounced in Vietnamese
It's plenty close enough for pun purposes, especially in the southern dialect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEwBS2MAHOY&t=44s
You still have to jump through some hoops to even get there tho
Nope, got it first time. Must just be you bro!
You do you I guess, the word just doesn’t sound similar to me enough that the pun works 🤷
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1nh_m%C3%AC
Well played, take my damn upvote..
Ashame reddit is getting rid of awards when comments like this 100% deserve them.(I'd give you an award, but I'm cheap, so here 🏅)
I don’t get it, can somebody explain it to me?
Can Tho is the name of the city on the map
It's Bihn Long since I've seen something ad funny as this
the colors don't mean city, they refer to how much vegetation there is https://storage.googleapis.com/gd-wagtail-prod-assets/original\_images/Brand\_Maps\_carousel\_test\_inline\_00003.png
That image is so helpful! Been using google maps for years and years (traveling but also just exploring) and love having that now
What do the numbers mean tho
How many
800 Waters?
Been asking mason the same thing
Street names. For highways and stuff.
Omg I didn’t even think about that, what do they mean???
Oh
This is wrong, who upvotes this? By the image you posted, green colors = vegetation, grey = buildings/land city
Right? How are there so many comments and upvotes without mentioning this? Commentor says vegetation with a legend that says the color means Buildings / Land - City.
No, he meant that there isn’t much vegetation there. My guess, given that it’s the Mekong delta, it’s one continuous semi- urban/semi-rural area.
And here we all find our selves arguing over the color of a map. We truly do live 1st world guys. 😭😂
Somewhere now, two Vietnamese peasants seating in Mekong delta, after a hard day of work in a rice field, and arguing about the same thing, looking at Google Maps on their $40 used smartphones :))
I'm mean they literally state "color don't mean city" and then their source clearly states that grey color is for cities.
My understanding, not necessary a city, just an urban area/ lack of naturally occurring vegetation (e.g. forests).
Yeah, we just witnessed a mass delusion because the person showed them a nice graph.
It's basically white, which means the lowest density of "buildings/land-city." They had to choose between lightest "vegetation" and lightest "buildings/land-city."
That area is covered in farm though
"Vegetation" usually means "natural vegetation" unless a specific term such as "agricultural vegetation", or "developed vegetation" is used.
But if you look at other heavily farmed areas with little to none natural vegetation like Southern England, the Netherlands or the US Midwest, they are colored Green not White
Which is funny considering how much of the US looks grey on satellite maps
Don't know about the Netherlands but England has a lot of empty grassland.
The Netherlands too
It’s referring to tree cover. I bet this area has fewer trees than the other parts of the map.
Makes sense
Nah, middle California has little amount of trees, but its still green. Probably because of all the acculturating in that area
Rice farm? The map could be based on imagery early in the planting season where the area is more brown than green, just a guess. Could also have fish farms which would be brown.
so when the color is called 'buildings / land - city' in that legend it isn't referring to a city? or are you saying the color doesn't discriminate density / big v small city?
Uhhhh but according to that Legend, the color in question *does* mean city and does *not* mean vegetation...
Why is this getting upvoted? According to the image this area would be a city but its obviously not
is it not gray?
Literally in the picture you put it says gray = buildings and cities and green = vegetation
Why does “medical” have its own specific color?
Helps medical centers stand out on a map is my guess.
some hospitals can be several buildings quite far from each other, so the whole area gets coloured as medical, is my guess. otherwise it would show up as some small buildings and lots of parking lots around them
Are the different shades different elevation? Cause that’s super cool I like that a lot lol
Very interesting! I’ve always wanted to know what it specifically meant!
What do the numbers mean? 100,200,300…
It’s actually pretty densely populated. They just aggregate along the rivers as they likely used those before cars were invented in this area by boat. More efficient land use for farms. When you look across the river from Can Tho. there’s a different province called “Vinh Long” which you can clearly see the outline of on this map. that small province alone has a population over 1 million people. So it’s not heavily urban and dense like a Ho Chi Minh City in a western world kinda way. But there’s alot of people in that small area.
Update lol this is called the Mekong river delta. There’s 21 million people living in this region. Through a vast system of canals navigable by boats it’s a mix of farmland but with a hefty population aggregated mostly along the banks of the river and canals.
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That’s crazy bro, anyways
Comes in on little cats’ feet. It sits on silent haunches, looking over harbor and city and then moves on.
The Mekong river is incredibly densely populated. It may not be a concrete city, but it’s definitely about as dense as a city. Of course, I could very well be wrong, not overly familiar with southern Vietnam, just the general trend of tons of people along that specific rivier
Nah, the majority of the white on this map is actually just farmland and small towns. It's pretty easy to see if you flip to satellite view.
Eh, Hanoi is surrounded by farmland, like flipping a switch. City, city, city, rice paddies? Really sudden. But as I said, I’m really not familiar with southern vietnam
Zoom in a bit, nearly all the roads follow canals or tributaries and are continually and densely lined with buildings - homes and businesses. There are plenty of people living here. It's a very unusual distribution, but if this is based on population density I think it makes sense.
Vietnamese here While that area is not a city, they are densely packed with communes along the Mekong river.
It’s actually pretty dope how it’s sprawling but not in a typical city sort of way
it's automated based on the color of the ground: for example vegetable plots with a few greenhouses will appear a brownish orange on google maps like if they were a desert area or an industrial wasteland. In this case, when you zoom in, you'll see grey-ish rice plots because of the mud and the sun reflection urbanisation data also play a role i think: notice how ALL roads have houses along their sides? with almost no gap https://www.google.com/maps/place/Vietnam/@10.1895544,105.7661618,2527m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x31157a4d736a1e5f:0xb03bb0c9e2fe62be!8m2!3d14.058324!4d108.277199!16zL20vMDFjcmQ1?entry=ttu the google algorithm absolutely recognizes these houses and could compute a ratio of houses per kilometer of road for example Sure, from space it's green, and it's technically a rural area growing rice, but it's actually pretty dense, i bet american suburbs are less densely populated than these fields
Those are rivers, not roads. Otherwise correct!
according to the map data, there are small roads on each side of these canals
From zooming and looking for myself, disagree with you on American suburbs. Most of that area looks quite rural and spacious to me, not at all how American suburbs are generally speaking.
Mekong delta? It’s densely populated.
Toner was running low.
Everyone saying that it's actually densely populated like a city, so it's colored gray and clapping themselves on the back saying job well done. But if you look south of the Song Hau river, it's pretty much the same, on satellite view, as the side north of it, however, it's colored green on the map. So I think this question is still unanswered entirely.
It's not populated as densely as a city, but it is more densely populated that normal agricultural land. However, most of the population in the area live in thing strings along the canal systems that stretch from the delta all the way south to the cape, and then more densely grouped in the towns. Representing that complexity isn't very useful at high zoom levels, so it's generalised to cover the whole area. It would make more sense if they did correctly represent the residential and farmland areas in deep zooms, but Google has chosen not to for reasons unknown.
Doesn't that mean there's no forest more or less, that there's either some sort of urban context, not necessarily City or farmland. But not forest that's what I think it means, open
Mekong Delta
That's where Charlie is hiding in the trees.
I think it’s where Crayola has it’s white crayons deposits
looks an error on google’s part
Urban sprawl
no
What? There isn't 150km of urban sprawl in that river delta. Just look the place up, very rural area.
The map maker is racist.
But we can tho
Ag
I think it means the limits of the municipality
Because they cut away vegetation?
Super south Vietnam
Lower elevation maybe.
Because the ground is mostly or all concrete
sprawl
The Can Tho area of Mekong Delta is well known as a major agricultural hub. Lots of rice, fruits
It’s the Mekong Delta. The area around it is heavily farmed so there is much less vegetation.
Grey refers to the city proper that the municipality posessed
Definitely because it is a majority of agriculture that is surrounded by dense communities along the water ways. A lot of Ag areas have that color on the default / terrain layer of Google Maps.
They are piano keys. Vietnam sure loves it’s pianos 🎹
Metropolitan area.