An image of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, with an overlay of the later-built Madison and Lexington Avenues, creating shorter blocks on the Upper East Side.
The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 established the street grid of the majority of Manhattan. In it, the blocks on the upper east side were the same length as the upper west, but Madison & Lexington Aves were built later, creating an incongruity.
A map of New York City shows each segment of the street centerline colored based on its length.
It's the second day of the #30DayMapChallenge!
Some friends of mine got a new place in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Coming from Park Slope, the walk between each avenue seemed so much longer.
It is. I mapped block lengths to see how it shakes out throughout the city: jillhubley.com/project/bloc...
A grid of rectangles that are shaded according to the amount of moonlight each night.
Moonlight Chart, 1892 - from the 1892 World Almanac (archive.org/details/worl...)
Tim Berners-Lee’s mother’s wall calendar, hand-drawn in a radial fashion
Tim Berners-Lee’s forthcoming book - This is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
@timbl.bsky.social’s mother’s cool rotary wall calendar, from an advanced copy of This is for Everyone (that I got on the street- thx Brooklyn!)
pulling inspiration from Japanese fireworks catalogs, by the look of it!
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SALISH was in the NYT XWord yesterday, which led me to some googling, which led me to this gorgeous map I hadn't seen before. Amazing stuff: native-land.ca
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your comment made me remember Candy Chan's X-Ray drawings. Have you seen them? Not exactly the same, but very cool: www.projectsubwaynyc.com/x-ray-area-m...
I'd love to see that!
Picture of an isometric geological diagram.
A small selection of the USGS’s beautiful old isometric geological diagrams in Socks, uncovered by @jillhubley.bsky.social.
very cool!
isometric block diagram of the north star vein of the north star mine in 1931
isometric block diagram of the pennsylvania w.y.o.d. and x veins and the no. 2 and no. 3 veins of the north star mine
isometric block diagram of the empire mine and part of the empire-osborne hill vein system
pretty wild looking isometric block diagrams of vein systems in mines - published in 1940
pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0194/