Frightening!  Stephen Von Worley says, “As I hurtled down the highway, a pair of golden arches crept over the horizon, and the proverbial lightbulb smacked me in the forehead.  To gauge the creep of cookie-cutter commercialism, there?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s no better barometer than McDonald?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú ubiquitous fast food chain and inaugural megacorporate colonizer of small towns nationwide.

So, I set out to determine the farthest point from a Micky Dee?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú in the lower 48 states, at least.  This endeavor required information, and the nice folks at AggData were kind enough to provide it to me: a complete list of all 13,000-or-so U.S. restaurants, in CSV format, geolocated for maximum convenience.  From there, a bit of software engineering gymnastics, and?¢‚Ǩ¬¶

Behold, a visualization of the contiguous United States, colored by distance to the nearest domestic McDonald?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s!”

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My god, that is frightening. Detroit is like a little burning hot spot of McDonalds!

Hey look, the Florida Keys. I’ve eaten at least one of those points of light.

I’d be interested in seeing this superimposed on the November 2008 electoral map.

You won’t find anything interesting about this vs. the electoral map.  This is a pure population density map.

The trail of MD’s resemble a large, coiled, clogged colon when you clicky.

So, what it the furthest point from a Mickey Dee’s in the USA?

Does anyone eat their McDonald’s at a Starbucks?

ah, to answer the main question, the farthest point from a Mickey Deez is here!

http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=45.45955,-101.91356&z=7&t=M

hahaha, PLEASE take up palinode’s brilliant suggestion. i predict some sort of correlation…