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Figure 12. Obstetrical Delivery Hospital Regions (Constructed Using Thiessen Polygons): North Carolina, 1989
This map uses Thiessen polygons to construct regions: in this case, obstetrical delivery hospital regions. This technique can be utilized with little technology, using nodal points to construct polygons and, ultimately, regions.
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