Why the US' Land is Blocky
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Your watching half as interesting not wendover but they're basically the same thing so it's fine
*Wend Produc
Andrew Tundidor it’s the same fella
This is half as interesting
Short answer: us territory is still buffering
no just 8 bit pixels that is all.
The chunks are still loading
_Reticulating splines..._
Delgen1951 what
Makes se... (buffering)
I swear to god, you make flights relevant in every single video.
it wouldn't be a wendover video without a plane/flight reference
Cashcake That's how he gets off.
I wonder if this guy VATSIMs.
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I kept skipping past the adverts I never noticed one 😐
Glad to see you doing city planning videos on this channel!
City Beautiful you here!I ❤️❤️ your videos
City Beautiful Americana or bust
Rural land use planning, really. I mean, mostly.
This is a strangely interesting topic
City fuckediful*
'I bet he'll work planes in here somehow' *clicks*
9 Seconds later
'yep'
Noticed that too. ROFL...
Why is it called Half as Interesting and not Twice as Interesting?
It's half the length of wendover productions......
because half the video is commercial.
That's right as well!
because other channels are not half as interesting
Modesty on this guy's part I guess
"Basically, because France"
I like the line for some reason
The wheel spins and lands on France!
Евгений Левченко Ещё один товарищ на Американском канале!
Before the Internet, living close to each other would have been a huge bonus.
+Евгений Левченко
It's just a piece of paper with "France" and an arrow next to it!
Klockorino I know, right?
*Paris level* : no chill
WTD Productions I'm in APEC and I've been waiting for someone to say that. Makes remembering crap even harder
SO many treaties...
WTD Productions I
I love Paris.
WTD Productions i
Up here in Maine there are towns literally just numbers
MonkeyB0X Films Yep.
Where in Maine do you live? I’m in Norway
I swear I'm normal Portland, the land of 1000$ rent
Lewiston. Nowhere near as bad as everyone seems to think it is
Yeah, it really isn't. I feel like the standards here are much different.
wow Paris you need to chill with your treaties 😂😂
typically French, they do treaties and then retreaties, that's why there are so many.
keedt lol
France we surrender isis Allah arkbar France you can live here if u want
Nah Trump just has to stop saying no
Yeah
As a former land surveyor assistant, I know that most section lines in the western US have metal pins at their corners, buried around 4 inches deep, at the intersection of roads.
"Wow. Paris needs to chill with these treaties." Waw 10/10
For anyone that happens to be interested - those circular field patterns are also common in parts of Africa.
British myself, and I'm yet to see one in this county, which likely has to do with the topography of the land as well as the divisions between land dating back to medieval times.
This is informed speculation on my part, of course!
They're around in some parts of Australia too. Depends how flat the farming land is, I suppose. England's very hilly; while US, South Africa and Australia have lot of flat open plains.
Well, it also depends greatly on how arid the area is, as that style of irrigation is far more efficient and easier to manage in dry regions. In wetter regions, it's not used nearly as much.
I'll continue watching in a moment, I'm sure it's gonna be interesting and informative as always but... Holy cow, it's the first time I've ever seen Mozilla sponsoring a content creator.
Ink Panther immediately after seeing that intro I had to pause and check to see if anyone was going to mention that
Mozilla is going to go the way of big corporations. They kicked out their CEO because of donated to Christian groups, so they don't really respect the 1st amendment. Firefox has been dumbed down to try and take on the mainstream Chrome audience too. I don't see their future.
Three Reichs and You're Out! There is a future dude, Firefox has not been dumbed down I'd rather prefer the term optimised.
This is going to sound like a nutjob conspiracy theory, but I hope none of it is true.
Basically, after Google released Chrome in , Firefox' popularity started to rapidly decline, in late 2011 Chrome actually overtook Firefox. Mozilla, of course, didn't like it, because their revenue largely depends on their user base (remember that they get up to 90% of their money from search sites like Yahoo for making them the default choice). In fact up to late 2014 (that's after the Snowden leaks, btw) most of their money came from big evil Google lol, but I digress here.
So, someone on their marketing team noticed that there's a growing demand for privacy on the net (which I of course fully support), and they decided to capitalize on that. And to do that, they've adopted this really shady strategy of pointing at their competitors (namely Google and Microsoft) and saying "Heeeeeyyyy, they collect your data and then use it to make money", subtly implying that they should use Mozilla software as it respects its users' privacy. Of course, they somehow forget to share the fact that their revenue now comes from Yahoo paying them to get access to their users' data such as their browsing habits and search requests.
Plus, they now have gained (or at least their marketing team thinks so), to dismiss a lot of reasonable and sound technical criticism. Like "Firefox on macOS is a huge battery hog" - "BUT IT IS THE ONLY BROWSER THAT RESPECTS YOUR PRIVACY" as if they somehow imply that their users must give something up in order to get their privacy. Guess what, Vivaldi does the same thing as Mozilla to get their funding, seems to respect my privacy as well, but it does not turn my laptop into a heat gun.
This all just makes me sad. Mozilla does a lot of good things, things that are good to all of us. But sometimes they just turn it into "Get the facts"-ish competitor-bashing infomercial campaigns. They will notice the slightest change of Google's privacy policy, but will miss the fact that your CPU is a black box with a mind of its own that's under Intel's complete control. I honestly do not want to make them look like bad guys, but again, this makes me sad.
tl;dr: This is all infomercials capitalizing on the post-Snowden demand for privacy and should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
Gregory Khvatsky I’ll continue to use Firefox though just because they have the “open and switch to new tab” feature lol
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wow. That's pretty interesting
When the first reply has more likes than you ur comment
baerleon not anymore
It’s only half as interesting as you think it is.
That’s something someone that’s not interested would say
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Interesting! I've been wondering about the blockiness of much of the US, when compared to many European countries such as Finland where I live. This explains it. I personally like the more organic growth of towns, but I understand why this system was implemented and it makes more logical sense for such a new and large country.
It also has a lot to do with the fact that Thomas Jefferson had a lot of influence on this surveying system and he was big on Enlightenment policies of rationalizing everything including plot shapes.
@@javiercs006 as a Freemason he also was big in the Illuminati.
And it is why we will never give up the mile.
It is literally etched into the land.
3:42 That should be 400m
TheJzoli Noticed that too
So glad I'm not the only one, thank you!
Less than 400m with the central 'wheel'.
Americans can't into metric.
+1
I live in Portland, Maine. (pop. abt 70,000) I've driven through those townships. somebody told me that if I moved to one with no people I could technically be the mayor of the town.
I live on an arpent (40 Arpent) along the Mississippi in former French Louisiana! Neat to see this unit of measurement being covered. Thanks!
The downside is because of an overabundance of space, stuff is spread out so much and cars become almost essential.
At least with the disorganised towns, the densest parts are where all the useful stuff is, so you can get around by foot quite easily, at the expense of suffering from congestion if too many people decide to go around town in their cars.
I grew up in the eastern US, and the first time I flew out west I was shocked at how blocky the land was. I knew about the land ordinances from the 1780s from APUSH, but it was still shocking for my eastern eyes, which had seen only European style wonky land organization, to see land divided up in such an organized way. It was both cool and somewhat unsettling 😂
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS CROP CIRCLES. I live on east coast, and flying back home to Montana is a bunch of loud east coast ppl trying to figure out what "the circles are"
I was one of those "loud" (im usually very quiet and to myself on plane rides) east coast people trying to figure it out in my head lol
i knew from just looking at an arial view at google maps and google earth.
damn that transition to that ad made jacksfilms sponsors look sloppy
lmao
You explain it better.
I always wondered about this. I live in suburban Canada and our cities look like line after line after line.
Good to see Maine get some mention. Gotta love all those lettered and numbered townships.
Medieval English towns had long thin settlements with the houses one rod/pole/perch apart (just over 5 metres) and with long gardens - so that at the front the houses were close but they had vegetable gardens and a cesspit a descent distance from the houses.
"Whoa, Paris needs to chill with the treaties." 😂😂😂
Same thing with Quebec there long skinny land along the river
Sam George oh yeah, from mercantilism
Sam George however, as far as you go southeast, they'll become disorganized like in britain
Aye, because the french colonies were organized under the seigneiurial system...which was quasi-feudal.
What if you rode in a Toyota Corolla? What would it look like?
The same, but bigger.
Like a long walk
This and Wendover are really becoming my favorite TH-cam channels. I stop everything I'm doing when a new video is released.
Most western towns didn't pop up until after the popularization of the locomotive, which needed to stop every 7 miles or so for water/coal/wood. Water stations are the reason towns are 7 miles apart, not the survey block system. FYI.
3:41 needs correction 400m
This channel has legit become about my favorite out there. Keep it up!!
Hey! Could you make a video about the size of Pangea eg how long it would take to walk/drive/fly all the way across Pangea?
I just came back from a flight from Boston to Oregon with a layover in Salt Lake City. It's always really interesting looking down at the U.S. when flying from coast to coast, I've literally wondered about all of the things talked about in this video, so thank you for finally giving me some answers!
As a European, it's amazing to think that the land you live on was scientifically divided up. Rather than having just expanded naturally over time with a rich, cultural history
TheDMBfan ain't nobody got time for that 😂
I'd be dead by then 💀
i love this channel for answering every question ive ever had inside a plane
I really like these videos, even more than the ones on your main channel. The relaxed and humorous style is a nice way to present information that can otherwise be really boring.
I wouldn't say the british method is more arbitrary, if anything its less so than just plotting a grid on some land when you have no idea of the physical geography. I'd prefer to say it's more organic
Matthew Purkis this!
well said
Boooooo
Paris could chill with those treaties if yall'd chill with your wars
Vergil Christensen lol that’s true
THIS
As a lifelong Maine resident (and new binging subscriber) I love the unique facts about Maine that work their way into your videos. Machias Seal Island, the fish-packing loophlole video, Roosevelt-Campabello island, etc. Thanks for the great content!
The French style follows the old river so the plots of land show where the river was instead of how it changed to now. That's really cool!
Sam, you sure do know how to make every topic interesting! Well, half as interesting.
3:18
"Farmers use these sprinlers on wheels [...] to water their planes."
No. That's NOT what they use them for!
He said plants
@@maximaldinotrap It's Wendover. Of course he said planes. He ALWAYS says planes. Or bricks. But why would water bric... OH... yeah, that's why!
I always love the links you make to the sponsor at the end of the video
Man. I always feel excited when there are new videos from you.
I also prefer chaos. Chaos makes life fun.
That ad segway was smooth af
Wave you mean segue? ;)
But ad segway sounds cool, too
Where I am in WI, they have both, so some farms are like stripes along the road with houses down the way, and others are just big blocks with cows grazing here and there
Interesting. Being Canadian, I'm familiar with the French system of parceling land in that way from history class and school trips, because of Quebec. Hadn't really thought of it being a system in the US as well, but makes sense.
"Haha you think that's organised..? That's cute." The Netherlands said, standing in a polder.
Soy Netherlands soy polders soy
Good video, too bad a horrible side effect of this type of layout is impractical public transportation...
not really either way those would still be fields in the middle of nowhere
I just don't understand this cult-like religion people have for public transportation. What other obsolete technologies are they also in favor of? Do they want to get rid of indoor plumbing and bring back outhouses and chamber pots? What about ditching electricity and going back to simple kerosene lamps? Typewriters? Rotary Phones?
Even during the late 19th century "Public Transit" was something only the rich and white collar workers could afford. The poors got to live 12 to a room and walk everywhere. Yay.
The population density of New York today is about 27,000 per square mile. In 1893, according to the sources I can find, the density was over 3x higher, 91,000 per square mile. London was 4x denser than it is now.
The sort of densities needed are both expensive and unhealthy. Cars replaced transit for the same reason electricity replaced candles. Sure you can cook the books to make candles look better than electric lights, but at the end of the day people know which is superior for their needs.
I had never read that Land Ordinance act or whatever but this is actually really cool. As a person who loves order, the knowledge that the United States is split up like this is amazing. I knew about townships (duh, I live in one) but I was unaware they were further split and that farmers who own sections even further than that split them to water crops. Neat.
As I do most of your videos, I really enjoyed watching this. I learned something that I didn't even know existed Andrew therefore, didn't even know I'd be interested in learning. Please keep them coming!
So at 3:36, 1/2 a mile = 800m, and 1/4 mile also equals 800m...
well the channel is called "half as accurate"
These ad segues are hilarious, I'm not even mad.
Great video as always! And I like that transition!
Great video! That segway was fire tho!
"Like this: *split second slide"... or this! *split second slide*... or thi-" (viewer succumbs to epileptic fit)... Longer cuts please lol ;)
The first pic in the video is a plane!
Another great video! Love these abstract ideas. I never thought how much British and French zoning laws effects the geography of America.
The product placement transitions are so smooth.
Once again, the best part is French.
Nah the circles are way better. For sexy farms: US > France > UK
@@willmannn not really, US Farms seem rather dull, just a square block, no character to it, reminds me flying around Beijing just an endless mosaic, incredibly boring to look at.
Also, the best part's are French what Detroit and New Orleans, bless.
I was always wondering this
Europe evolved. The US was created and planned.
Was wondering about Canada until you mentioned France! Explains the layout of cities on the St Lawrence River in Quebec not just the Mississippi. Great video!
The picture @:30 is of False River in Point Coupee Parish. I grew up about a mile from that river and fly over it all the time going from Baton Rouge to Houston. How cool is this. :)
When I see the map of the US, all I see is blocks and grids.
That is what happens when your country is 250 years old.
Not quite: 242 on July 4th of this year.
Your video to add transitions are pure art
You have to love how smooth he is with the ads
Insert French Anthem here
3:52
Guys he's getting better at his segues
DominantReverse You know who else is good at segues?
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He always segues so smoothly into the promotion at the end
I️ do title research for land sales...this is the first time talk of section/township/ranges has been interesting. Thanks!!
We just bodged America: it was never meant to last this long.
Side note: queuing isn't recreational it's politeness.
seen a soccer match, or the end of one.....
The way he transitions into ads pisses me off for some reason just to abrupt and seems to cut himself off and makes me associate a negative feeling towards the ad completely ineffective imo
My US I History teacher told us to just right down “Treaty of Paris” on a test if asked what was the name of the treaty that ended _____ war. Because 9/10 times you’ll be right. But then he went to say that for his tests you needed to include the year or else it would be wrong...
I used to be a GIS Technician making maps for mines and pipelines in Alberta. Every map I made included the STRM overlay - section, township, range, meridian. Many Alberta addresses also use STRM for rural addressing!
Dear editor, your British flag is wrong. Before 1801 it didn't have the St Patricks cross
Dear Tinie Snipah.... no one gives a shit
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Jeremy hey, there's some vexillology fans out here who care
I miss when this channel legitimately focused on being informative like with this video instead of constant jokes with a few facts thrown in.
if you watch the video, you will find out that there are more facts and history than jokes. dont stretch the truth to help your arguments
Hot damn that ad transition was clean af good work
Great video as always just unsure about the music in the background, takes from the video I think. Found myself checking was another tab playing.
So according to you 0,5 miles = 800 meters and 0,25 = 800 meters, doesn't seem right.
2 minutes into wendover and chill and he gives you this comment
1/2 mile - 800m
1/4mile ( the radios , which means it's a half from the lenght) - also 800m
So yeeeah (3:40)
That's the damn imperial system
That's very interesting!
I live near Pittsburgh and that was originally settled by the British. Every time I look up photos and videos of places near Germany's Rhine and Elbe rivers, they remind me of the towns near any of Pittsburgh's three rviers (Ohio, Allegheny, & Monongahela), except the buildings are older than the ones in southwestern Pennsylvania. It's interesting that some parts of America do resemble Europe, without having to travel there,
Didn't many Germans settle Pennsylvania way before the independence of the USA?
sion8 Yes, around that time and after.
+Owen Concorde
So probably that's why they look like that.
sion8 A lot of Germans settled in Pennsylvania even after independence. Some of the governors in 1800s couldn't speak English well. Their first language was German.
+Great Wolf
I'm not discounting more German people coming after independence, I'm just saying that pre-1700-whatever-year-he-said Germans came to Pennsylvania explaining its German character and also why the grid system may not have effected that state.
Always wondered about this man. Good video! Keep up the good work!
Great video!! None that “fast talk” thing and great segway to the ad... 😂
Freakishly organised. My European brain doesn't like it ;(
Iowa is this sorta organization taken to an extreme. The state is split into 99 (formerly 100 but one went bankrupt and got annexed by a neighbor) uniformly sized counties of a very specific size. The County Seat (where the county courthouse is located) is required to be placed as close to the center of each county as possible. The capital of Iowa was also placed relatively centrally.
The idea was, back in horse and buggy days, nobody would live more than a day's round trip by carriage from their courthouse to attend to business. If you had to go to the courthouse, you could leave in the morning and be back by supper time as opposed to other states where such a chore could take some people over a day's trip to the courthouse.
Iowa is also one of the few states that doesn't have a gerrymandering problem because they've been easily able to computer-draw the district lines fairly since the 80s because of how the counties are set up.
Tobberz here in America with ALLLLLL this land to ourselves efficiency is key unlike Europe with so many smaller countries
+Exarian Is John Kasic your governor? He sounds like a reasonably intelligent guy (for a politician).
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BadWebDiver
Kasich is the Governor of Ohio.
I understand you, it's creepy
The French style of allocating land is called the seigneurial system. Divided into seigneury's. Not whatever you called it😬
Well, by U.S. standards we call it whatever Louisiana wants to call it
As with most things American with which ignorant Europeans have a problem, more than likely the Americans are still calling it what the original settlers called it and it was the Europeans who somehow changed, not the Americans. One can think of several examples like this.
Good video. Learned some history and got some ideas for my story.
I am from Australia and whenever I looked at America on google maps I always wondered this. Thank you for explaining this year old question of mine
So Central Valley in California is Ignored :(
That was the Spanish! ;)
Becouse Americans just have to do it diferent then the British.
Like typing „than“ instead of „then“ 😉.
It was more efficient
Great video. Informative, interesting. The Wikipedia pages on the Paris treaties were a bit jarring to me. I wasn’t sure what to look/focus on (I think it’s called eye trace) But I still enjoyed the video. Nicely done! :)
You're so much ballsier with your ads at the end than on wendover productions
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16 views 54 likes .. I think thats half as interesting as the video
0:24 it probably looked like this *shows picture for 5 milliseconds*
There is an interesting detail you've not necessarily gotten correct, and that you highlighted most of Wisconsin. A majority of the state follows the block pattern (PLSS, Public Land Survey System), though there are some places influenced by French settlement, yes. You even pointed out the baseline and meridian for Wisconsin! Well done overall, glad to see someone else with an interest in this material.