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    Who likes looking at maps?

    That's great GO - if only Sydney Buses did something as understandable:

    Sydney Buses Northern

    Much easier to follow eh?

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      Who likes looking at maps?

      Not a map.

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        Very cool real estate map of 1940s New York.

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          That's great.

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            Stunning. It would take you a year to go through all that detail if you zoom in as far as the archive documents.

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              Who likes looking at maps?

              The shine is taken off for me by having to draw/edit maps in my work (I do freelance DTP/graphics and at times it's been my main job) which can be very tedious, although it's quite cool when you get predrawn maps that go into layers in Illustrator, so you can toggle off and on different layers of detail e.g. topographical detail, rivers, rail, capital cities, smaller settlements. Has anyone used these?

              I had to draw Kurdistan* last week (with a tablet, fortunately) as it wasn't in any of the packages, then shade it in two halves. Still, it does add to my geographical knowledge and generally, I love a good map. Apparently we had cartographers and scribes in the family so I'm carrying on a tradition, spose.

              * it only needed to be teeny weeny, so just the approximate shape - I couldn't draw a proper map of Kurdistan, so don't ask me.

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                Who likes looking at maps?

                ursus arctos wrote:
                I wish real estate agents and brokers would consult that for new neighborhood names instead of coming up with yet another tedious TriBeCa/NoLitA/DUMBO-style acronym.

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                  Who likes looking at maps?

                  MsD wrote:
                  The shine is taken off for me by having to draw/edit maps in my work (I do freelance DTP/graphics and at times it's been my main job) which can be very tedious, although it's quite cool when you get predrawn maps that go into layers in Illustrator, so you can toggle off and on different layers of detail e.g. topographical detail, rivers, rail, capital cities, smaller settlements. Has anyone used these?
                  I've used ArcMap, which is neat if a tad fiddly. You can overlay OS maps with photos; we used it to look at erosion on the East Anglian coast. It sounds like a similar principle with the layers.

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                    Who likes looking at maps?

                    Most of my job is map (or satellite image) based, and there's a ton of free data out there. If you work with maps enough and are patient enough to learn, the tools in GDAL (or FW Tools as the more front end) are fantastic and free, although it's mostly command line and I've never used their display package. If you're willing to spend a couple of hundred dollars, I find Global Mapper is a great tool - sort of halfway to a GIS without all the analytical bells and whistles that you don't need when all you're doing is making your map look pretty.

                    Of the data, if you want global vector data, there's a thing called VMAP which has a huge amount of information in it, although it can be a bitch to manipulate. It does come in layers, which is great, and it's fairly easy to extract vectors or polygons for things like countries or states or coastlines. Amazingly, the entire OS data product is now basically free and has no usage restrictions, which is incredibly useful for making up your own maps in the UK (actually, just GB: Northern Ireland Ordnance Survey have their own rules, are a separate organisation and are pretty dark-ages).

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                      For some reason, recently I've found that fewer, rather than more, routemap / navigation-tool sites seem to offer an animated (aerial) view of the route that you'll be taking when driving / riding from point A to point B. However, this site seems to take it as far as the current technology (easily) can by offering static map, animated aerial route view and streetview all at once. There's almost no need to go on pleasure or reconnaissance drives / rides now!

                      http://www.mapchannels.com/RouteMaps.aspx

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                        It just crashed my Firefox trying to go from Kintail Lodge to Glenelg. Dunno why, we'd got over the Mam Ratagan, so the hard work'd been done...

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                          Who likes looking at maps?

                          Lives on the Line.

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                            Who likes looking at maps?

                            Goddamit. Was looking for this thread and couldn't see it, leading me to start a soon to be nil thread on the lives on the line map. Interesting stuff though.

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                              Who likes looking at maps?

                              How have I never heard of a tube station called Canada Water?

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                                Who likes looking at maps?

                                It's relatively new. Created in 1999 when the Jubilee Line extension was built.

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                                  Who likes looking at maps?

                                  That's part of the Canary Wharf/Reichmann thing, no?

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                                    Who likes looking at maps?

                                    I absolutely adore maps, I've got 100's at home and love studying them, whether I know the place or not.

                                    In the 1980's, The Rockefeller Centre in New-York would give you the maps of all the US States, pretty amazing as they cost about £5 or £6 each at the time in Paris where I lived, you could find them (with difficulty) at the wonderful l'Astrolabe bookshop which specialised in all kind of maps (they still do).

                                    I guess you all know the amazing Billsportsmaps.com site, incredible:

                                    http://billsportsmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/conference-national_may2012_1-promoted-club_fleetwood-town_and-4-playoff-clubs_e.gif

                                    But my favourite map is this one, the Daily Mail map of Australia, quite special...

                                    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1342706/Australia-floods-Theodore-Bundaberg-Condamine-water-week.html

                                    http://www.qhatlas.com.au/public_map/capricornia

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                                      Who likes looking at maps?

                                      Me too Kev7.

                                      Thanks for that Daily Mail map - I never realised I've had my last five holidays in Capricornia!

                                      You've reminded me (and apologies if this is already here somewhere; I haven't trawled right through) but this site is phenomenal I reckon - every commercial flight, everywhere in the world, all the time:

                                      http://planefinder.net/

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                                        Who likes looking at maps?

                                        Love it.

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                                          Who likes looking at maps?

                                          A map by John Keefe at New York's WNYC radio station showing where in the city people get stopped and frisked the most, here.

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                                            Who likes looking at maps?

                                            stonelephant wrote:

                                            http://planefinder.net/

                                            Thanks for that, great site.

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                                              Who likes looking at maps?

                                              There was a timelapse video showing the planefinder, before, during and after the volano erupted in Iceland a couple of years ago. Really interesting to watch.

                                              I'll see if I can find it.

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                                                Who likes looking at maps?

                                                When you look at today's planefinder above London and the Home Counties, crikey... You wonder how so many big planes can "hover" trouble-free above London, scary!

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                                                  Who likes looking at maps?

                                                  This is indeed scary:

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