Andy Woodruff  · Cartographer | Blog

Posts Tagged ‘cities’

City ≠ city

20 September 2010 tagged bing, cities, labels, rants, urban geography with 11 comments

City ≠ city. Place ≠ place. You know when you’re two thousand miles from home and somebody asks where you’re from and you just name the nearby major city even though you actually live in an adjacent suburb, because who the hell would know where that suburb is? I wish we’d think of cities that […]

Skyline maps

22 June 2010 tagged Boston, chicago, cities, flickr, new york, philadelphia, san francisco, seattle, skylines, toronto, vancouver with 11 comments

City skylines are one of my favorite types of scenic view. When planning to visit a new city, or even when looking to take some photos of a familiar city, I like to do some online scouting of good spots for a skyline view. I can recall several years ago browsing Google Earth, panning around […]