Mapping
My friend Kirbie recently discovered that the corner of Easy Street and Poverty Lane is in Salem, South Carolina. Really.
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While I wanted to credit the optimism of whoever named the roads (Poverty Lane is a deadend, Easy Street links two major roads), I just realized that Easy Street is the only way to [...]
1. Where has collected the best urban photography among recent Ffffound! finds.
2. I love advocacy group Global Voices’ map of online censorship (and anti-censorship) efforts around the world. Be sure to check out their gallery of national blockpages.
3. Deputy Dog has given us his choices for top 5 ‘deserted city’ scenes in film. I’ve always [...]
1. Some pictures: Brisbane’s brightly painted traffic signal boxes.
2. A map: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops hosts a well-done interactive map of poverty within the United States.
3. A list: the most expensive cities for expatriate employees. New York has fallen to 15th, London climbs to second, and Moscow holds fast atop the board.
In celebration of GIS Day, I have begun Geocoding all of my place-related posts using the Geopress Wordpress plugin. Once Outside.in gets things together on their mapping site, these Geocoded posts should be plotted here, on Tightgrid’s blogmap.
I’ll keep you updated.
Streets in Japan are notoriously difficult to navigate. Japanese Penguin offers some advice on finding your way when the streets have no names. The bottom line?
[I]f you plan to drive in Japan, get GPS. If you have to walk or bike somewhere, make sure you have solid directions and know exactly where you’re going and [...]
What’s in the middle of those oddly-shaped Parisian blocks? Peter Levine uses Google Earth to find Paris is much greener than a stroll down its boulevards might reveal.
Indian business blog Trak.in reviews three mapping services’ coverage of the subcontinent. They look at Yahoo, RouteGuru and MapMyIndia. Creating roadmaps of India is challenging “given the unorganized and inconsistent naming standards of the Indian roads” or the lack of road names in the first place.
When asked to provide directions from point A to point [...]
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