2012-04-04
post/20462285029
photo 12:13:05
Study for Looking at 1998 San Francisco by Rigo 98 (now Rigo), from the SFMOMA collection at Google Art Project.
2012-01-20
post/16166352322
photo 10:55:06
New York at Night by Berenice Abbott. As seen at the Night Visions exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, which ran from April to September 2011.
2011-07-08
post/7360339517
photo 00:22:31
We’ve chosen a series of cities that we think are representative of the wide range of coverage that’s available in Open Street Map, and also for their expressive potential. New York reveals a cluster of interest in downtown Manhattan and Roosevelt Island, without much else of distinction except the freeways. Paris sprawls densely along the Seine with enormous parks to the east and west of the city center. Toronto hugs Lake Ontario with parks like veins threading back away from the shoreline. Cities have character, and this is reflected in more than just their streetscapes or their skylines—it’s reflected in how they’re mapped by volunteers.
A collaboration betweenMapQuest Open and Stamen Design, using data from the OpenStreetMap project.
2011-03-04
post/3629673922
photo 00:38:21
Sometimes it’s hard to compete with the simple elegance of a stripped-down display of geographic shapes. Some of my favorite images of that ilk are maps of city building footprints.



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We’ve chosen a series of cities that we think are representative of the wide range of coverage that’s available in Open Street Map, and also for their expressive potential. New York reveals a cluster of interest in downtown Manhattan and Roosevelt Island, without much else of distinction except the freeways. Paris sprawls densely along the Seine with enormous parks to the east and west of the city center. Toronto hugs Lake Ontario with parks like veins threading back away from the shoreline. Cities have character, and this is reflected in more than just their streetscapes or their skylines—it’s reflected in how they’re mapped by volunteers.
A collaboration betweenMapQuest Open and Stamen Design, using data from the OpenStreetMap project.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnzkxkzyx21qz4vjro1_500.jpg)
