Star counts from our high-quality Gaia DR2 6D sample in bins of width 1.0 kpc in R and z, as indicated by the box in the upper right corner. The central coordinates of the bins are separated by 0.5 kpc in R and z, thus the bins are not fully independent. The white contours indicate the location of bins with 2000 (inner contour) or 100 (outer contour) stars. The position of the Sun is indicated by the white symbol. Only stars with are considered in our sample.