I showed this yesterday at the NYC meetup Hack&Tell and it seems to have blown up since then! Thanks for the post. My favorite part is that the avenues converge at "Manhattan's North Pole" aka Kazakhstan.
Isn't it actually in Uzbekistan?
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#22All roads lead to Uzbekistan. I think this would be a great way to see differences in map projections.
Uxbekistan and—in the South Pacific—R'Iyeh, fictional city in Lovecraft where Cthulhu is held prisoner.
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And out near 127,000th st, where it gets real sketchy and you can never find a taxi, even death may die.
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#23I showed this yesterday at the NYC meetup Hack&Tell and it seems to have blown up since then! Thanks for the post. My favorite part is that the avenues converge at "Manhattan's North Pole" aka Kazakhstan.
Isn't it actually in Uzbekistan?
Ah, you're quite right. I think it used to be in Kazakhstan before my final tweakings of the grid.
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#24What is this?
Assuming you aren't a troll. Manhattan - like most US cities have streets/avenues based on a regular grid and numbered consecutively Streets East/West and Avenues North/South. So you can continue the numbering scheme across the entire world. The angles are due to the fact that the streets are aligned with the island of Manhattan rather than geographic north.
I live in a city with a street plan defined by an irrigation ditch cut around 1300AD and a market place that was active 1150 AD or so. Other places nearby have main streets surveyed originally by the Romans.
I suspect this was not a troll.
Greetings from very near 10137Ave, 62586st, bluenose territory.
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#25Salt Lake City/valley has a better grid system, just saying. I dearly miss it.
Yeah, Liberty Park is located on South 12234th Ave at 10740 St.
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#26The whole world? Like it extends out to Brooklyn and up to the Bronx?
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#27Man, and to think my friend's 5th floor walk-up in a little building on 1st and 1st would truly be the center of the universe.
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#28Reminds me of this map that made the cover of the New Yorker a long time ago: http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/newyorker2.JP...
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#29This doesn't make a lot of sense for Manhattan, because the grid doesn't have a center point; there's no numbering convention for streets south of Houston or avenues east of York/A. It would make more sense for cities like Miami or Salt Lake City, where there is a quadrant system and (for the most part) consistent spacing of streets
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Assuming you aren't a troll. Manhattan - like most US cities have streets/avenues based on a regular grid and numbered consecutively Streets East/West and Avenues North/South. So you can continue the numbering scheme across the entire world. The angles are due to the fact that the streets are aligned with the island of Manhattan rather than geographic north.
I live in a city with a street plan defined by an irrigation ditch cut around 1300AD and a market place that was active 1150 AD or so. Other places nearby have main streets surveyed originally by the Romans. I suspect this was not a troll. Greetings from very near 10137Ave, 62586st, bluenose territory.
Those recent imperialist Romans, right? I wonder what happened to them? Actually, to speak like a troll too, this reeks of American-centric imperialism to me. When will you guys realise that you don't own the Internet and the rest of us are not particularly interested in the street-plan of Manhattan?