There Are No Roads in London

Streets of London Today’s #30DayMapChallenge is to use OpenStreetMap (OSM) data as your primary source.To meet this challenge I decided to use OpenStreetMap data to explore the toponyms of London’s streets, visualizing how different road types – Streets, Lanes, Alleys, Courts, Yards, and Avenues – are named and distributed across the City of London.One of my favourite quiz questions is – ‘How Maps Mania… more →
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There are 2,773 stories in the Naked City

The 1960’s procedural police series the Naked City used to conclude every episode with the line: “There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.” If there are eight million stories in New York then The City has got quite a long way to go before it is finished reporting on them. So far it has managed to find only 2,773 stories in NYC.The City asked ChatGPT to find Maps Mania… more →
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Google’s updated Maps app lets you bike, train, ride-share there – Fox Business

Google’s updated Maps app lets you bike, train, ride-share there  Fox Business Google Maps will now let users combine transit directions with biking and ride-sharing  The Verge Google Maps finally lets you plan ‘mixed modes’ travel  Mashable Google Maps announces new “Mixed Modes” tool for multi-part commutes  USA TODAY Google Maps Introduces Its “Mixed Modes” Function for Multipart Journeys  HYPEBEAST View full coverage on Google News “map app” – Google News… more →
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