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A subterranean bird’s-eye view

22 September 2009 tagged birds eye view, Boston, interesting maps, metro maps with 1 comment

I’m rather late to this party, but it’s worth another mention.

A while ago Vanshnookenraggen (a.k.a. Andrew Lynch) heroically pored over materials in the Massachusetts State Transportation Library and posted a bunch of images of old Boston transit maps to a Flickr set. (He’s got the future covered too with FutureMBTA, an excellent round-up of conceivable [...]

Warning: do not attempt to use this map as a map

3 September 2009 tagged bad maps, ethics with 3 comments

A small globe spotted for sale at Target the other day:

Apparently we’re allowed to just put warning labels on our maps instead of trying to make them, you know, accurate. Either that or this sphere has particularly sharp corners and is not safe for a classroom full of children.
Remember, bad maps kill! Cartographers, always protect [...]