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The Greatest Paper Map of the US, Made by a Guy in Oregon (2012)
- dalke 11y agoWhen this came out, back in 2012, there was a decent amount of discussion about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3416426 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3416426 . As I recall, this Slate article drew a lot of attention to the map, and garnered many sales for the years of work that went into making the map.
- outside1234 11y agoHe should build a map rendering template for Open Street Maps!
- sailfast 11y agoYes, that would be awesome however I think the main reason this one took the prize was the sheer amount of "curated", "human" touches that were not present in other automated maps. That said, perhaps somebody could throw this against an image processing / learning API and extend that to a rendering template? :)
- Bedon292 11y agoWhile you could certainly do the colors in an OSM template, it would not be the same. All of the labels were placed by hand, which would not be doable in OSM. He also stacked together forest layers as well as an elevation hillshade to make it pop like it does, which are raster layers and not available in the vector OSM.
- sjunkin 11y agoWhere can I buy it https://imusgeographics.com/ https://imusgeographics.com/
- simplicio 11y agoI admire the work that went into the Imus map, but looking at the example images in the article, I actually think I prefer the NatGeo map. My eyeballs seem to have an easier time resolving the place names, and figuring out what they refer to. I think its because NatGeo let the baselines for the text bend, while Imus insists they're all flat, making them looked "stacked" (I actually compared the maps and decided which one looked better before reading the caption saying which was which, and was surprised the one I prefered was the one NatGeo one.)
- cgriswald 11y agoMeta: Why is the HN title different than the title of the article? The HN title added unnecessary ambiguity.