11 December 06

Mapping Food Coops

Food co-ops of the continental US
I’ve wanted to know where all the food coops are in the United States for some time so I made a map, shown here at left. To do this I screenscaped the addresses for all the food coops in the Cooperative Grocer Directory and then used the functionality at geocoder.us to change the addresses into latitudes and longitudes which I could then plot on a map. This is still a draft map: my first pass at geocoding only got about 80% of the food coops located (about 220 of them). Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Vermont win the prize for the most cooperative states.

Posted by at 07:54 PM in Maps | Link |

  1. This is cool, Numenius. Thanks for putting it together.

    TIm


    — Tim    12. December 2006, 04:33    Link

  2. You’re spending way to much time on the computer buddy.


    — Ron    12. December 2006, 06:06    Link

  3. On Wisconsin!!


    — Karen    12. December 2006, 20:13    Link

  4. I really appreciate this. I’m spoiled having lived all my life in MN & WI. My daughter moved to Colorado. WHERE ARE THE CO-OPS, I’ve asked. I wonder if laws or what influence whether or not places end up with co-ops. Do you know?


    — Marilyn Nelson    28. April 2014, 20:46    Link

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