Bradley Allen

Elevate me later (so many fortresses and ways to attack)

A nature study of life in the wilderness of San Francisco, sharing coffee and tea with friends

buzzandersen:
San Francisco, from Ben Fry’s “All Streets” (via Chris Heathcote One of the things that always fascinates me when I’m driving down a long stretch of rural highway (like, say, California’s Interstate 5—pictured below) is just how much empty space there is in the American West with essentially no roads. This image, from a project by visualization expert Ben Fry, illustrates this in a very dramatic way. Compare this map, which shows streets as the only geographic feature, with his maps of the Great Lakes or Appalachia, and you’ll get a sense of just how empty the West is!
I’ve been on my share of those lonesome Western roads.
Heh. Somehow I don’t reckon this amazing and beautiful map represents some of those logging/fire roads that Google Maps (via the iPhone) not-so-helpfully suggested we traverse while driving through rural Oregon last Summer. What a way to break in a new car!

San Francisco, from Ben Fry’s “All Streets”
(via Chris Heathcote
One of the things that always fascinates me when I’m driving down a long stretch of rural highway (like, say, California’s Interstate 5—pictured below) is just how much empty space there is in the American West with essentially no roads. This image, from a project by visualization expert Ben Fry, illustrates this in a very dramatic way. Compare this map, which shows streets as the only geographic feature, with his maps of the Great Lakes or Appalachia, and you’ll get a sense of just how empty the West is!

I’ve been on my share of those lonesome Western roads.

Heh. Somehow I don’t reckon this amazing and beautiful map represents some of those logging/fire roads that Google Maps (via the iPhone) not-so-helpfully suggested we traverse while driving through rural Oregon last Summer. What a way to break in a new car!