November 2, 2009 @ 10:20 pm
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An Australian designer (living in America) has taken it upon himself to create this great looking map of the Eisenhower Interstate System with an obvious homage to the classic London Underground map.
You can read more about Cameron’s map design here.
October 29, 2009 @ 11:21 am
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A great find today from CP of a bird’s eye view of the Boston Rapid Transit System back in the 1940’s and 50’s. According to the image description, this version of the map is a bit different than today’s Boston T map because the lines shown here are of a different color than what they are today (today’s Red Line was blue, today’s Orange Line was red, and today’s Blue Line was orange).
The current colors were switched during a system wide rebranding when the MBTA was created.
September 24, 2009 @ 6:02 pm
Stephen Von Worley over at Weather Sealed created this amazing visualization of McDonald’s locations in the United States after going on a road trip this past summer. He wanted to see how far he could get from the franchise establishment in any location in the contiguous United States. His research led to this image which shows that no matter where you are in the US, a McDonald’s restaurant really isn’t that far away.
He says:
As expected, McDonald’s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid. East of the Mississippi, there’s wall-to-wall coverage, except for a handful of meager gaps centered on the Adirondacks, inland Maine, the Everglades, and outlying West Virginia.
For maximum McSparseness, we look westward, towards the deepest, darkest holes in our map: the barren deserts of central Nevada, the arid hills of southeastern Oregon, the rugged wilderness of Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains, and the conspicuous well of blackness on the high plains of northwestern South Dakota. There, in a patch of rolling grassland, loosely hemmed in by Bismarck, Dickinson, Pierre, and the greater Rapid City-Spearfish-Sturgis metropolitan area, we find our answer.
Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald’s, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car!
Great work Steve!
September 15, 2009 @ 6:01 pm
This is Michael Albert’s map of Manhattan made entirely out of letters taken from advertisements and commercial products. The whole collage was completed in Fall 2008 and it measures a whopping 32″x40″. By using these letters, Michael Albert spells out the locations of places and districts in Manhattan. The artist says that there is a spelling mistake in the map and challenges people to look for it.
Check out a PDF of the map here. I would love a huge print of this to hang on my wall. :)
July 17, 2009 @ 1:30 pm
I may end up going to the Transit Museum in Brooklyn next week and one of things I’m excited to see is the exhibit called “The Future Beneath Us” which details the 8 great projects that are underway to improve travel and water infrastructure in New York City.
I love this map shown above that lays out all of the “lines” that are planned.
July 3, 2009 @ 8:10 pm
Nordstrom is selling this vintage New York City Subway map dress that’s made from silk. It’s imported and it’s $250! But don’t rely on it 100% for directions as the map has changed drastically since this design seen here.
Thanks ANIMAL!
