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Staring into the bright lights, big city of Paris each day…from my desk.
prettymaps (dc/baltimore) by Aaron Straup Cope
prettymaps (boston) by Aaron Straup Cope
prettymaps (dallas/fort worth) by Aaron Straup Cope
prettymaps (chicago) by Aaron Straup CopeIn the newsletter, Sara writes:
Hot on the heels of the MoMA exhibition Talk to Me, which featured prettymapsearlier this year, these fair four also follow up the already released editions ofnyc, la, sfba and paris prints. MoMA featured Manhattan* along with Beijing and Tokyo, but we’re staying closer to the homefront—for now! More international destinations coming soon—favoring the places we know a little more intimately. (Though, that’s up for debate; I’ll be the first to admit that Dallas/Ft. Worth is as foreign to me as the far reaches of the Faroes.)
Dizzying and data-licious, Aaron’s maps are the product of enormous amount of freely available info streamed from sources around the web. The nitty-gritty details of just how they were created can be found on the prettymaps site, and among the plethora of blogs that hopped on the story as soon as the maps came out. Though Open Source Maps is indeed a source for these, they’re not made for navigating. But, they sure are nice to look at. Among the pinks, yellows and oranges, orienting yourself in the cities you do know is an immersive, instantaneous pleasure. In the ones that you don’t know, the palette keeps the secrets of those unknown territories. But fear not, if you’re ever lost, home is always where the he(art) is.
