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Scope and source dates

Origins: 4,402 city-clipped 2020 Census blocks. Routes and environmental context extend 3 km beyond Plano. Trees: AI predictions from 2022 NAIP. Heat: summer 2025 Landsat surfaces. Population: 2020 Census. Housing/demographics: 2020–2024 ACS; disability at tract level.

Gray means unavailable or incomplete. Smooth colors do not create finer observations. Housing values describe areas, not individual homes.

Earlier nine-layer pilot map

Preserved for reference. It covers the original four ZIPs and is not the current municipal analysis.

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Look a little closer

Browse the saved maps below, or read how aerial tree predictions enter the walking model.

Friction versus walking time across the Plano municipal area — Same graph, destinations and origins. Matched cost-percentile scales.

Where rankings change across the Plano municipal area — Friction cost percentile minus time-only percentile. Blue improves; red worsens.

Does friction reproduce distance? across the Plano municipal area — All-category comparison. Differences show model behavior, not validated human preferences.

Shade-priority walking access across the Plano municipal area — All available destination categories. Full municipal scope.

Walking paths colored by nearby AI-predicted tree fraction — This path-level feature enters the routing cost.

AI-estimated tree cover across the Plano municipal area — GeoAI predicts trees from 2022 aerial imagery. Nearby tree cover informs each walking-edge cost; it is a shade proxy, not measured shade.

Summer surface temperature across the Plano municipal area — Clear-sky summer 2025 Landsat composite. Surface temperature, not air temperature.

Traffic volume across the Plano municipal area — Nearby mapped TxDOT AADT, normalized against Plano. Not a crash-risk measure.

Population density across the Plano municipal area — 2020 Census residents per land km². Full-block values; city-border fragments flagged in the master map.

Area median rent across the Plano municipal area — 2020–2024 ACS block-group estimates. Not current listings.

Area median home value across the Plano municipal area — 2020–2024 ACS owner-reported values. Not individual appraisals.

Weighted walking network across the Plano municipal area — Actual mapped edges, with environmental context. Routes extend 3 km beyond Plano.

Earlier experiments and four-ZIP maps