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Skyline maps

22 June 2010 tagged Boston, chicago, cities, flickr, new york, philadelphia, san francisco, seattle, skylines, toronto, vancouver with 11 comments

City skylines are one of my favorite types of scenic view. When planning to visit a new city, or even when looking to take some photos of a familiar city, I like to do some online scouting of good spots for a skyline view. I can recall several years ago browsing Google Earth, panning around [...]

Squeezing San Francisco

3 September 2008 tagged interesting maps, san francisco, scale with 1 comment

Here’s an interesting map I picked up in San Francisco last year. (Forgive the poor-ish quality. I laid it on the floor and took a photo of it.)

It took a while to realize this, having referred mostly to the downtown area in which I was staying and because the shape doesn’t look too [...]