Hi, On 7 October 2010 11:31, Claudius <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 07.10.2010 02:42, andrzej zaborowski: >> >> 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. > > Alex Gopher - "The Child" maybe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGWkdNWFZiI > Claudius
Yes, that is the video. Thank for the link. (recommended!) Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
