Shining Cities On The Hills: Check Out This Map Of Texas Cities Showing Their Brightness In Peaks

Matt Largey | Austin Public Radio   |   March 6, 2019

“Perhaps it was an underlying thought to get people thinking about the effects of our urbanized areas on our nighttime environments,” Wasilkowski told The Washington Post. “I also wonder if we don’t often consider what day versus night means when looking at maps — maybe we even assume daytime when there are bright colors on a thematic map, or looking at daytime satellite imagery maps — and I have been curious lately what that means for maps and visualizations dealing with 'nighttime data.’”

Read the story at: https://www.kut.org/post/shining-cities-hills-check-out-map-texas-cities-showing-their-brightness-peaks

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