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Re: Reykjavik Center Map

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Post by danellis »

znor wrote: post #20
danellis wrote: post #2

I've no idea what this is doing on HN, but it's very nice, and I wish I'd seen it before I was there a few weeks ago. Beautiful city, far bigger and far more modern than I'd imagined, and full of lovely people.

It´s a shame you missed our map danellis, pm me your address and I´ll gladly send you a hard copy if you want.

Thank you, my wife and I would love that, especially as just on the edge of the map is the apartment we rented on AirBNB.

There's no PM facility on HN, but please do get in touch at dan@danellis.me for my address and let me know the best way to pay you.

Re: Reykjavik Center Map

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Post by hereandthere2 »

znor wrote: post #18

Hey guys! I´m the cartographer that designed this map, here are a few other examples of our work if anyone´s interested: http://www.borgarmynd.com A friend let me know about the post and I just wanted to say thanks for posting and feedback, much appreciated :) I got a few of my architect and graphic designer friends to work on this map with me while we were still in school, 7 years ago, and the website with the zoom…

Hi you should set debug mode to false in production. when i got a 404 it had showed me the line that failed. as well as some other info

Re: Reykjavik Center Map

#53

Post by znor »

Udo_Schmitz wrote: post #49
znor wrote: post #18

Hey guys! I´m the cartographer that designed this map, here are a few other examples of our work if anyone´s interested: http://www.borgarmynd.com A friend let me know about the post and I just wanted to say thanks for posting and feedback, much appreciated :) I got a few of my architect and graphic designer friends to work on this map with me while we were still in school, 7 years ago, and the website with the zoom…

Wow. I'm a graphic designer myself and always wanted to try this for my neighborhood. Do you really go and look at each building and draw it? And do I have to be slightly insane to do this or will I become slightly insane doing this?

hehe, insane is a good word to describe this one. I´m not sure of the long term consequences but there were long nights, weeks, months and years spent on this one.

It´s even a tad bit more than you guessed. First: Make photocopies of ground plans, sections and drawings of each side of appr.600 houses at the city planning office.(appr.3.000 a2 sheets of paper if I remember correctly) Sit down for one summer with two friends, model those buildings and play a lot of ping pong in between to keep mentally stable. Then charter a plane, persuade the air control to get you permission to fly 10 circles over a busy city center to photograph almost each house from the same angle (for colors and details such as flagpoles, trampolines etc.). Then walk the streets to photograph missing parts.

After all of that: Decide on an angle, start trying to find a suitable style, do test blocks, then draw 186 a3 drawings, watercolor each one using the aerial photos for accurate colors and then finally assembling the map, color grading, bunch of dodging and burning, street names, et voilá, you got yourself a map!

No problem really......

Re: Reykjavik Center Map

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Post by DanBC »

whiteshadow wrote: post #7
danellis wrote: post #2

I've no idea what this is doing on HN, but it's very nice, and I wish I'd seen it before I was there a few weeks ago. Beautiful city, far bigger and far more modern than I'd imagined, and full of lovely people.

True. It is quite beautiful, but not really the thing I would expect in hacker news to be honest.

Just to satisfy my curiosity: what do you think should be on HN? What is it about this link that makes you think it's unexpected here?

Re: Reykjavik Center Map

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Post by znor »

ljsocal wrote: post #30

This is beautiful and fun to explore. I'm curious, with all the time involved is this a viable business venture (through advertising from retailers, sales of prints, etc.) or primarily a labor of love?

primarily a whole lot of labor and a whole lot of love

Re: Reykjavik Center Map

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Post by znor »

enjo wrote: post #43
mattmanser wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? It's a great example of marketing and an innovative blend of a modern tiling map and an old school guide map. This is exactly the sort of thing to expect on HN, especially at a weekend.

I completely agree.. HN is at it's best when it's inspiring, and this is a cool project that sheds light on a city that I'm guessing 95% of HN will never see. It's well done and highly interesting... I dig it.

We hereby dig you dude/dudeness

Re: Reykjavik Center Map

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Post by plaguuuuuu »

znor wrote: post #18

Hey guys! I´m the cartographer that designed this map, here are a few other examples of our work if anyone´s interested: http://www.borgarmynd.com A friend let me know about the post and I just wanted to say thanks for posting and feedback, much appreciated :) I got a few of my architect and graphic designer friends to work on this map with me while we were still in school, 7 years ago, and the website with the zoom…

So much of the internet is bland and corporatised. Stuff like this adds the humanity back into the net.

Re: Reykjavik Center Map

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Post by znor »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #38

Really beautiful, but I wish you could go back easily - i.e. not having to click back through every location you visited.

hmmm....you shouldn´t have to do that. Thanks for the heads up. What kind of browser etc?

Re: Reykjavik Center Map

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Post by znor »

plaguuuuuu wrote: post #57
znor wrote: post #18

Hey guys! I´m the cartographer that designed this map, here are a few other examples of our work if anyone´s interested: http://www.borgarmynd.com A friend let me know about the post and I just wanted to say thanks for posting and feedback, much appreciated :) I got a few of my architect and graphic designer friends to work on this map with me while we were still in school, 7 years ago, and the website with the zoom…

So much of the internet is bland and corporatised. Stuff like this adds the humanity back into the net.

Much obliged fellow human :)

Re: Reykjavik Center Map

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Post by olapersson »

znor wrote: post #42
olapersson wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Beautiful work. Is it ok to embedded this (and the full Iceland map) with an iframe?

Tack sa mycket :) That shouldn´t be a problem, I´ll look into it.

Actually, if you don't mind I'd love to write a post about the project. If you're up to answering a couple of questions drop me a line at ola@chickenorpasta.com.br. :)
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