Tag: mapping

Mapped NY Breweries

Below is a map of every place where brewing happens in New York State (yes, we even included Anheuser-Busch’s brewery in Baldwinsville, near Syracuse). A RED spot indicates a brewery that’s open to the public – with a taproom or a restaurant or another place where you can buy a pint or bottle or fill a growler. A YELLOW spot indicates a brewery that’s licensed but closed to the public. Many of these are small farm breweries that sell at farmer’s markets; others are just not quite ready to fire up the brewhouse or open their taproom. An ORANGE spot indicates a brewery with a pending license, meaning they’re most likely going to happen, but just haven’t finished construction yet.

Roman Empire subway map

Explore the Peutinger Map presents The Peutinger Map in different ways, including with overlays and lists of geographical features. But what’s The Peutinger Map? Also known as Tabula Peutingeriana, it is a Medieval copy of highly stylized 4th Century map of the Roman road network, extending to India. Jacob Ford explains why it is often compared to modern public transit maps and then redraws 1 section as a New York Metro map.

Mapping NYC Changes

Here’s where New York City’s getting whiter (in green on the map). The red areas are the 25 sub-boroughs with declining white populations—none of which were in the gentrifying neighborhoods identified by the Furman Center. The population of white residents increased in every gentrifying neighborhood from 2000 to 2015. 8 gentrifying neighborhoods logged the biggest increases, topped by Bedford-Stuyvesant, at 1235%.

timeless fictional London

The number of geographical references kept increasing, but they remain essentially localized in the City and in the West End. The rest of London—where most of the growth was actually taking place—never really mattered. In the course of the 19th century, real London radically changed—and fictional London hardly at all.

Land Lines

so fun

Start with a line, let the planet complete the picture. Land Lines lets you explore Google Earth satellite images through gesture. Machine learning and line detection algorithms were used to preprocess all images and identify the dominant lines. This enabled the analysis of brushstrokes and retrieval of the matching image efficiently without the need for a server.The project was made in collaboration by Zach Lieberman and the Data Arts Team.

Harbor Ring

I realized that there was a disconnect between the idea of a cars-only crossing and the reality evolving in the region. Bikes are taking off all over the city. We now have waterfront development all along the harbor with parks and bike paths. It’s a whole rebirth, the “new New York.” And the powers that be have repeatedly rejected bike access on the bridge. We started thinking about how we could recast the idea of a shared-use path on the bridge. I’m an urban and regional planner by training, but I’ve been in the family hardware business, and so I thought, “We have to take a marketing approach to repackage Verrazano access.” It’s the missing link in the Harbor Ring. We became the Harbor Ring Committee.

Cairo Transit Mapping

Transport for Cairo (TfC) is mapping the city’s complex public transit systems—both formal and informal. The group’s ultimate goal isn’t just to draw a paper map of the system, but to eventually build mobile transit apps. All the data they’re collecting feed into the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS), the standard format pioneered by Google to openly share public transit information among transit agencies and application developers. GTFS currently works for networks that run on fixed schedules, but TfC hopes to adapt the standard so that it works with Cairo’s informal transit system, as well.

D&D maps

So here I’m collecting all my maps so you don’t have to dig through the whole archive of blog posts to find them. They are presented in reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent maps and then proceeding into older and older examples of my work. I’ve also included a legend of the majority of the mapping symbols used throughout these maps (well, mostly the overhead maps – the side-views are pretty much the same and/or self-evident I hope).