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All Streets |
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Author(s):
Ben Fry |
Institution:
(unknown) |
Year:
2008 |
URL:
http://benfry.com/allstreets/ |
Project Description:
This visualization by Ben Fry depicts all of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population. Alaska and Hawaii were initially left out for simplicity's sake, but then Ben Fry felt guilty because of the sad emails he received. However, he made the final decision of leaving them out permanently because the two states didn't "work", since there aren't enough roads to outline their shape.The first image depicts all 48 states while the second shows a detail view into Kansas City, where the white blocks seem to be rural routes and unnamed roads. |
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Hi Manuel,
Here follows Jorge Luis Borges Quotation:
On Exactitude in Science
...In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such
Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the
entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of
a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer
satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the
Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which
coincided point for point with it. The following Generations,
who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their
Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless,
and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered
it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts
of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map,
inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is
no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
J. A. Suárez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV,
Cap. XLV, Lérida, 1658
[Jorge Luis Borges. A Universal History of Infamy (1935), in
Collected Fictions (New York: Viking Penguin, 1998), p. 325).
Translated by Andrew Hurley.]
Posted by eduardo corte-real on May 12, 2009 at 3:03 PM (GMT)
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