PigBoy

Hmm... they'd better add a statue of ColDay to the top of LeVeque just in case the next measurement of the Washington Monument comes up with an even higher number.

Browsing maps, I notice that Yahoo et al show the border exactly on the northern bank between Sayler Park in Cincinnati and the Great Miami River. If accurate, I wonder if that means that the 1792 low-water mark is actually north of the present bank, and the boundary was fixed on that bank rather than giving the land to Kentucky. (Or maybe such a situation was addressed in the various things posted and I'm not paying enough attention...)

[sycophant] Hey, at least some of us loyal out-of-staters are coming, CDM! [/sycophant]

Wow, having something of a job for the summer is already knocking me down in the rankings... I'm sitting at #9 with over 24 days. Probably best not to think about it. Not that UrbanOhio time is wasted time, of course. :wink:

A nice sky indeed!

Thanks for posting that! Good to know. An interesting thing is that these guys all get most of their map data from the same place (NAVTEQ)... I suspect they're working off the same border information but that Google has just generalized it a lot more. So can we trust Yahoo's and Microsoft's maps to generally be accurate with regard to the border? If so, it'll be interesting to follow it and look for any stange spots.

Yeah, that could get misinterpreted... Ha! :lol: Get your minds out of the gutter, people!

Great shots... that is near-perfect lighting in the view from Mt. Adams! Is that really all you've got from the Cincinnati meet? Tired, indeed... bah! (Did RiverViewer make you wake up too early?)

Well, there are more on the east side than west, especially to the north, but they do look rather dispersed.

I'm there. Making the trip from Wisconsin AGAIN just for UrbanOhio! You need to try harder to get me to "come back home." If we pretend it's another Geography convention will you come? :wink:

^ Interesting to hear those numbers. On that note, my sister and I were taking stock of all the downtown businesses that were not there a year ago. I've seen businesses come and go in downtown Delaware, but happily there do seem to be more coming than going. Oh, and thanks for stopping by the thread, folks!

Those are fantastic! I can practically feel the pleasant city evening.

Very nice! A couple of the 21-gun salute guys almost look like they're aiming at you. Run!

A good zoom makes certain types of people pictures easier. They're less likely to notice you if you're far away. :wink: And they certainly can't sue you over non-commercial photos like we see here.

Anybody's Pawn Shop? Well, if it's up for grabs, I'll take it.

Very nice! I remember doing the flag thing there back when I was in the Boy Scouts.

Generic pictures are good... very nice!

Another great collection of shots!

Go Appalachian towns! Great shots!

That's impressive! Before you guys in Ohio got the storms, for about 30 minutes on Wednesday it looked like a tropical storm outside my window in Wisconsin. Ridiculous wind and rain... and a number of streets were flooded in just that half hour or so.

Measuring by distance can let you compare population density, but I don't see that it offers much of a comparison of the size of metropolitan areas. Columbus and Phoenix, for example, aren't comparable metropolitan areas just because the population within a 10 mile radius might be similar.

If you feel up to the challenge of trying to figure out how this thing works, the American Community Survey page is here: http://www.census.gov/acs/www/index.html. I was wondering about your conjecture that it's a modification of the 2000 data rather than a replacement, but I didn't notice anything that easily answered the question. The survey is similar to the Census long form and is intended to actually replace that form in the future, but at the moment it's of course given to a much smaller sample size. (I think I saw that the Census long form is given to a 1-in-6 sample; this one went to 3 million nationwide, which is obviously a lot less than 1 in 6.) But the data on housing units are not sample data in the Census, so in that case the comparison to the 2000 Census might not be as simple. But then, I don't know how they count housing units to begin with, since unoccupied units are obviously not going to return a form. So maybe the methods are similar after all... I just have no idea. We need a Census Bureau employee on this forum!

Yeah... wow. I can't tell what's what with all that going on. But then, it's a pretty large area. A nice overview drawing on one of those posters would have helped! This may have been mentioned before, but that hypothetical festival layout makes it look like Mehring Way will be realigned. Is that correct?

Given the continued wonder at the Cincinnati figure, I think it bears repeating that these are not the 2004 Census estimates. They are the results of a survey. It's based on 1,464 responses in Hamilton County, for example. Further, as somebody pointed out a while ago, it's only population in households, which in Cincinnati's case leaves out more than 13,000. A properly done survey should be reasonably accurate, of course, but do remember that they weren't out there actually counting the number of housing units or anything like that.

Such beautiful photos! Even when you don't have the nice blue sky (and let's face it, it does usually seem to follow you everywhere), it still ends up being perfect for your shots.