• Horse {they/them}English
    17·
    9 months ago

    but you see, the usa is (slightly) bigger and that’s why [literally anything] cannot be done

    😔

    • Eiren (she/her)English
      13·
      9 months ago

      China is actually slightly bigger than America as far as land area. America is only bigger (and even then only slightly) if you include claimed bodies of water.

  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

    I don’t know if you can glean much from this without looking into exactly how Google Maps displays specific types of roads in each country. If you drew a map of every road in both countries they might look more similar.

    • mkkhan
      10·
      9 months ago

      I work in GIS and based on some exploration, it seems that zoom level shows only roads tagged as freeways.

      So in this case it literally is just a straight up win over US infrastructure.

  • darkernations
    8·
    9 months ago

    What a backwards society the US is; hopefully they can learn from the more advanced socialist countries.

  • Ecoleo [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    More of a meme than a fair comparison, google can be weird when it comes to the way it displays roads. For instance, SK is shown with nothing.

  • rigor
    6·
    9 months ago

    Hey don’t put the US down like that, they have about similar infrastructure as sparsely populated Qinghai…

    • PuddleglumEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      Doesnt china have something like 5 times the population of the us 350 some odd million to something like 1.5 billion? Its roughly the same landmass. 3.5 million ish square miles. Makes sense to me.

      Not saying anything pro or against either place. Just seems like it makes sense

      • Eiren (she/her)English
        6·
        9 months ago

        It would make sense if the more densely populated areas of U.S.A. had good infrastructure but even those mostly don’t.