Dark theme

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Real programmers like dark themes. I’ve never liked them, but there are good reasons for preferring dark themes. They save battery power, are easier on the eyes, especially in dark rooms and actually look quite neat. Maybe I was put off from them for so many years as they reminded me of those awful command line interfaces of my youth that I hated compared to the friendly Macintosh System Software, still I am starting to understand why are so popular these days.

Regions around Cities

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Regions around Cities

Using Voroni polygons around major cities, actually does a pretty good job at predicting regions, especially if you pick good control cities.
 
I used the Natural Earth control cities, but I could see swapping a few of these out -- like eliminating Schenectady as it's so linked to Albany and adding Oneonta.
 
I did have to hack off the North Fork of Long Island and manually stick it in New York due to getting captured in the Poughkeepsie polygon but that's an artifact of how Voroni works without knowledge of connections. A better algorithm for dealing with water breaks would be something that uses a connectivity map to generate the regions.

Dunham Reservior

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Dunham Reservior

The Dunham Reservior is part of Grafton Lakes State Park. One of the five lakes, it's seperated from the rest of the park by NY 2.