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Building historical road layouts from todays data
- gus_massa 12y agoIt's an interesting work, but it's difficult. I found a few historical inaccuracies. For example, in the reconstructed map the Avenida de Mayo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenida_de_Mayo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenida_de_Mayo ) ends with a curved path near the Plaza Congreso (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Plaza http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Plaza). I live only a few blocks away, so I know the zone very well. Perhaps a link to the current Google map may help you to understand the discussion: https://www.google.com.ar/maps/@-34.6094993,-58.3877341,17z https://www.google.com.ar/maps/@-34.6094993,-58.3877341,17z In the scanned map at the top of the article, the Avenida de Mayo is a straight line and ends in a perpendicular intersection. In the current map, it ends with a curved path that allows the cars to go into Avenida Rivadavia. The Wikipedia article about Plaza Congreso explains that they didn't want to cut the Plaza Loreto because it was used a as water supply for the carriages, and the new extension was created in 1910. Also, many of the Avenues marked in the map, in that time were usual narrow streets. The increase of the wide was a much later project, but I can't find the date now.