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A couple of blogs today (GGW, DCist) featured this fantastic map of DC and environs from Flickr user Eric Fischer. Fischer has a set of similar maps from various cities around the world. Fischer’s methodology takes data from the images and the user accounts to determine the location of the photo (via geotagging), as well as Continue reading DC Photo Map Some cool map-related items: San Francisco’s Parking Census – with one of those ideas that’s so obvious that no one ever thought of it before, San Francisco has completed the first known census of all the publicly available parking spaces in an American city. The census found 441,541 spaces in the city, just 280,000 of which Continue reading Parking, Census, & Maps Two things I like – beer and maps. Maps about booze are even better. Having grown up in the Midwest – born and raised in Minnesota, with lots of family in Wisconsin, as well as living in Madison and Ann Arbor, it’s no surprise to me that people there like to drink. It’s a part of Continue reading Bar Crawl In the same vein as UCLA’s Hypercities maps I’ve discussed previously, I recently ran across some more historical maps from Shannon over at We Love DC. The maps themselves are ok, not nearly as detailed or interesting as the Hypercities maps, taking the historic maps and re-projecting them onto an interactive Google maps interface. More interesting Continue reading Historic DC Maps Something you can do to waste time during the snow day – UCLA has a great website with a series of historical maps scaled and overlaid on a contemporary aerial image for select cities around the world. The closest to DC is New York, but this is still a lot of fun to play around Continue reading Fun with maps Second Ave Sagas has a great subway-style map of Lost’s fictional universe – in advance of tonight’s season premiere. This is the creation of John Cabrera, who explains it further here. ….and other assorted links Board games: Greater Greater Washington notes that the Feds have filled two of their four slots on the WMATA board, naming Mort Downey and Marcel Acosta to the positions. Downey is a former executive for the US DOT under the Clinton Administration and is currently a transportation consultant. Acosta is the Executive Director Continue reading Metro’s new board members set the bar… Portland Aerial Tram – image from joseph readdy on flickr Ah, Portland. Metropolis of planning, bicycling, and all things creative. A couple of things have piled up in my open tabs or in my reader. Portland hasn’t seen huge shifts in mode share (as noted here previously – hat tip to Jarrett Walker here and here), Continue reading Assorted Portland tidbits Following up on the current Republican assertion that what is urban cannot also be local, there’s been a lot more discussion today concerning cities and their political leanings. The Overhead Wire asserts that building cities “shouldn’t be a partisan issue.“ There’s certainly something to be said for that – as adding density is probably one of Continue reading Building partisan cities (?) |
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