Comments on: MINI Circuits – Missing States

By: RB

RB — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:14:58 +0000

Yada, Yada………Cal actually won on sheer numbers of units sold.

By: Josh Wardell

Josh Wardell — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:18:19 +0000

Thanks Ian…see how some data crunching always brings up interesting discussion!

blalor that is really great. The green dot that I assume is for me is only a few streets away (Ian you do have my zip I hope)

By: Big Jimmy

Big Jimmy — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 05:15:32 +0000

North Dakota here Representin
I am half tempted to order one to my address in WV just to see what the special deal is…

By: blalor

blalor — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 03:21:25 +0000

I posted about my efforts. I’m pretty happy with the result thus far.

I take a great deal of pride in being one of the few in Indiana with a circuit.

By: Ian C.

Ian C. — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 02:08:38 +0000

Josh – did some circuits per head of population calculations, and New Hampshire is the winner: 8 circuits with only 1.25 million population!

Massachusetts and other close-by states are somewhat biased due to me not having ZIP codes for many of the people I have installed for … there are 48 circuits either hand-delivered or installed.
Also, 11 circuits went to Sin City MINI club, unknown ZIP codes – but if I put them all in Nevada that would make Nevada tie with New Hampshire!

Massachusetts would tie with New Hampshire if it had 18 more ZIP codes – I don’t think there are that many unaccounted for.

Below New Hampshire is:
Virginia (5.2/million)
Hawaii! (4.0/million – another small population)
California (3.9/million – 134 circuits, but a population of 34 million!)

Phew! Hope you appreciated that

By: Ian Cull

Ian Cull — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:08:54 +0000

The latitude/longitude marker file for TIGER is here - the first block (marked "statehwy1") are the dealerships and the rest (with various "reddot" sizes) are the MINI circuit locations - a bigger "reddot" indicates multiple circuits at the same ZIP code. What can you do with it?

By: snid

snid — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:40:53 +0000

Oh yeah… google maps. When I helped Ian do this the first time, there was no google maps. I’m not sure if it would be easier to do with google maps or the way it is being done now, since I haven’t hacked google maps at all.

By: ukpylot

ukpylot — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:37:56 +0000

Now, a google map version would be very cool.

By: blalor

blalor — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:14:48 +0000

Hey, if you send me that list of zips, I can make a google map from it! It’ll be easier if you include the lat/lon, too.

By: Ian C.

Ian C. — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 03:24:46 +0000

Thanks Lee – MINI dealership @ 28227 now added
MINI USA should remember to tell me when they open a new dealership!