[ExI] trade map: was RE: tech question

[William Flynn Wallace]

plenty of people think Canada is way bigger in land area than the USA, but
if you look at a globe or this map, you see they are pretty close to each
other, within a couple percent:



Take away Alaska and refigure.  I think that's what people are thinking -
just the lower 48 states.  bill w

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 9:43 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> >>…Have you factored in the several thousand dollar increase on cars
> imported into the US? Would you be in favor of a complete elimination of
> all barriers to trade in cars? Regards, Dan
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> >…This whole question gets still more interesting once we recognize that
> factories are becoming more automated over time.  It matters less than it
> once did where the factory is located from the point of view of the
> product, and matters more where the factory is located from the point of
> view of where the product will be sold (transportation costs of the
> product.)…spike
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> Dan for some time I have been thinking about how to create a world trade
> map.  We know the traditional Mercator projection map tends to distort land
> areas by causing us to overestimate the land area of northern and southern
> countries while underestimating the land areas of equatorial lands.  An
> example: plenty of people think Canada is way bigger in land area than the
> USA, but if you look at a globe or this map, you see they are pretty close
> to each other, within a couple percent:
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> Land area doesn’t matter much.  What we need is to create a trade map,
> where we make distance a function of cost to move goods.  Over the sea is
> lower cost than over land, and over land is way more expensive if good
> roads are not available.  Somehow we would need to take into account import
> tariffs.  It isn’t clear how to map that, but I have a few ideas.
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