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Originally Posted by DELurker
Here's a continental US map for the 2012 teams...
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If you want to get more specific, I believe Mark McLeod generated
an interactive version of North America.
Matt's map focuses not only on active teams, but also defunct teams focused in a given region. I imagine this kind of data would be a great use for a long established veteran team in an area to try to regrow said area's footprint, especially when it is likely on the precipice of shifting away from traditional event structure (which in Michigan has been a contributing factor to a deluge of new teams). It would be good to know whether or not there is FIRST history in a community that does not have an active FRC team that could possibly support one now, and a map like this makes such information readily available when targeting new/old areas for growth. For instance, I have followed FIRST for 7 years in the Richmond, VA area and had no idea some high schools listed ever supported an FRC team.
While a map like this could easily be considered a bit of a niche, it still presents data unique to both your .gif and Mark's interactive map. This thread will just suffer from the climate of the general forum during build season and plummet, while it might create interesting discussion during the lull that happens before CMP.