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Zombie psychogeography

In General cartography on 23 August 2010 tagged Boston, exploration, psychogeography, urban geography, wandering, zombies with no comments

I’m very weary of the hipster obsession with zombies by now. Cut it out, hipsters. So I felt shame the other night as my friend and I sprinted through the dark along treacherously uneven brick sidewalks, running from zombies and loving it.
Not real zombies, or even hipsters—we were responding to an awesome app for Android [...]

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 [...]