Today’s post falls under the category of Nifty Crap The Internet Found For Me.
But this one is really cool. Do you see this? What’s this?
It’s my hometown. I just ran an address search over here at Stamen, clicked on the yellow arrow next to “water color” and now I have an areal view done up all fancy.
You can zoom in, zoom out, just like you are searching a traffic map. You could do a map of where you were born, or where your cat was born, then hang it on a wall and everyone will think it’s abstract and you are all cerebral and stuff.
Look. Here is London.
I see London, I see France, I see…
Oh crap.
Now I have to go make a map of France.
These are really beautiful. Can you change the colors of the watercolors? Like make them all
purple and blue? Why don’t you do Washington DC?
I agree with Nutbird–these are really pretty. However, the urban areas are a far more striking picture than out here in the Great Plains. The most impressive thing on the map of my part of the prairie is the town lake–a big blob of blue, and that’s about it. But this Stamen site is really neat to prowl around. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, I just spent way too long playing with that very cool website.
Oh how I adore “Nifty Crap”… I would totally buy a Nifty Crap book written by you
Peaches…A Nifty Crap Book! What a great idea. Get to it!