On 7 October 2010 01:57, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not entirely sure what axismaps.com does but it sure seems to > involve a lot of pretty maps. This caught my attention when pointed > out to me by OSM contributor RichardF. > > <blockquote>These unique maps of Chicago and Boston accurately depict > the streets and highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and > physical features of the city using nothing but type. Only by manually > weaving together thousands upon thousands of carefully placed words > does the full picture of the city emerge. Prints are > available.</blockquote> > > So, Boston and Chicago, but I'm told that San Francisco, New York and > Washington are in progress, too. > > See more pretty maps and wonderful photography of maps on their web site. > > http://www.axismaps.com/typographic.php > > They have a blog entry describing the process of creating these maps, as well. > > http://www.axismaps.com/blog/2010/09/typographic-map-posters/
They're amazing, I specially like the water basins. From when I was a teenager I remember a music video playing on MTV (I think) that was made entirely as a "typographic" model of a city in 3D. I recently tried to find the video or the title / artist but I couldn't. My poor imitation of it is what you can maybe call tag-o-graphic map (http://www.openstreetmap.pl/img/city.jpg) used in the header of openstreetmap.pl (not in IE). It could be a fun idea for a mapnik (or otherwise) map style. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
