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It doesn't seem right to use the verb "love" here. But these are reference books I've gotten to enjoy looking at, even though I don't use them in the context their publishers intended for them.

Hagstrom New York City Five Boroughs, 1990 Edition.

Front cover of the 1990 New York City 5 Borough Street Atlas by Hagstrom

MapArt Publishing Saskatchewan Street and Road Atlas, 2007 Edition.

Front cover of the 2007 Saskatchewan Street and Road Atlas by MapArt Publishing

I'll add the images for the front covers ASAP, okay? Then, I'll try to explain these choices.

Current Mood: busy

So, NYC residents don't get to be able to visit Canada anymore?

(At least until DT-45 is finished in Washington, DC...and apparently I've misread the implications of the article. For now.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dhs-bans-new-yorkers-from-global-entry-and-other-programs-over-state-law-allowing-undocumented-immigrants-to-get-drivers-licenses/ar-BBZHKS1

This is Disturbing, too.

Current Mood: worried

Looking at this:

https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-city-paid-mckinsey-millions-to-stem-jail-violence-instead-violence-soared#172775

Wondering if that company has a motto saying "Do evil"...and we're just now finding out that Pete Buttegieg used to work there before he became mayor of South Bend, IL and has recently used that mayorship as a springboard to a presidential candidacy in the US.

Current Mood: worried

Yes, I live in Ottawa. But I have friends in NYC, so I now have my TV tuned to CNN as I type this.

One dead, so far.

Going to check Facebook as well, obviously...

Current Mood: worried

To give a sense of what was/is possible with the version of Gotham City I came to believe in as a result of working with Matt Brady on the Daily Planet Guide to Gotham...I found a map of the outline of Manhattan Island, and scaled it to match that of Eliot Brown's map.

The Gotham Islands may be shorter on the north-south axis, but far wider on the east-west axis. So there's still room for at least twenty numbered avenues, and my research into references in both visuals and dialogue in comics published between 1983 and 2011 have explicitly referred to a 33rd Avenue (Robin v.4 # 162).

Numbered streets...might be more difficult to manage, given that north-south axis mileage. We have references of those ranging from 2nd Street("A Lonely Place of Dying", where it meets 2nd Avenue at Apollo Square) to 242nd (Batgirl v.3 # 6).

There's probably several ways for a competent cartographer or graphic designer to render all of that somewhat consistant.

Note - 2 Jan 2016: I will have to find new homes for a few graphics once I torch my LJ account. Like this one. Good thing my Flickr account is still active.

Current Mood: nerdy

This news item might be of some interest...

http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/new-york-public-library-puts-20000-hi-res-maps-online.html

Fair warning: this looks to be bandwidth-intensive.

If you're willing to be patient with the load-up, and you're interested in animated mapping exercises, recent NYC history and geography and/or civic politics, this bit of linkage courtesy of the New York Times will repay your patience handsomely.

Current Mood: impressed

Having bought the <b>Historical Atlas of New York City</b> by Eric Homberger - the original edition in paperback - some years ago, I have to admit to some issues with the content both then and in the newer edition which I've seen via the local library. It's got the best mixture of old and new map usage I've yet to see in a historical atlas, but my main beef with it is that it's Manhattan-centric. Not as much attention to the other four boroughs, and that's a gap that could stand to be filled.

So, what I'm wondering is this: might there be <i>another</i> volume out there that addresses this gap to my satisfaction?

Current Mood: curious

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Entries tagged with new york city

MAPS: Street Atlases I've Come to Value

NYC, Canada, DHS and Sanctuary Cities

McKinsey Again

NYC: Helicopter "Hard Landing" on 757 7th Avenue

Gotham v Manhattan: A Sense of Scale

On Maps of NYC

Mapping Animations: the Bloomberg Mayoralty of NYC

A question for my NYC friendlisters re: historical atlases

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