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Geodancing

In My maps on 20 July 2010 tagged driving, google maps, minimal maps, one-way streets with 3 comments

The other day Axis Mapper Dave was working with styled maps in the Google Maps API and made a brief styling mistake—all the small roads disappeared but their one-way arrows remained.

It was actually kind of an interesting perspective on the street system, a stripped-down view of engineered traffic patterns or perhaps a measure of the [...]

This rock totally looks like a map

In Awesome maps on 10 July 2010 tagged nevada, ohio, rocks with 2 comments

You know you’re a map geek when you’re at Red Rock Canyon outside Las Vegas, walking across ground that is covered with thousands of stones, and what catches your eye is a single little rock that totally sorta looks like a map of Ohio.

(At the time you’re also wearing a t-shirt with a map of [...]

Skyline maps

In My maps on 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 [...]