: rendered at 18,000 X 12,000 :

I’ve had a couple geographers contact me asking if I was attending the AAG’s annual meeting in Boston. My answer has been that I’m too busy on various projects to attend. As a former employee and someone who helped facilitate two annual meetings (Denver & Chicago), I realized that the next meeting I plan on attending will be as either an exhibitor or if the trip is paid for by an employer. I would like to give another presentation again or organize a panel discussion, but, as with most things in life, I’m in no hurry.

Since I have not made any maps of downtown Boston since August of 2005, I decided to download the city, in lieu of going to the city. Pleasantly, I was able to download the city at two different spatial scales and from two different years: 2004 & 2005. So far the imagery looks a lot better than the patchwork design that was previously placed into the public domain. Eight different tessellations later, the entire downtown area will be remapped in the next week. Today’s map features the area around Boston Common, which is the oldest public park in America (created in 1634), and the Massachusetts State House. I chose an Octagon Quilt Projection because I liked the way the center creates a compass rose. Up next will be a derivative of today’s map.

View the Google Map of Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts.

View the rest of the details:

: detail of the Massachusetts State House :

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: zoom to center :

Related Massachusetts Entries:

• Harvard Quilt #3
• Boston Common Quilt, revisited
• North End Quilt #2
• North End Quilt
• Boston Financial District Quilt
• Boston Common Quilt #2
• Boston Common Quilt
• Mount Holyoke Quilt #2
• Mount Holyoke Quilt
• The art of Map Fest by Teresa Mendez - The Christian Science Monitor
• 2008 Urban America Calendar
• The Brandeis Brief
• Polar Coordinates of Harvard University [dodecagon]
• Harvard Quilt - NE
• Harvard Quilt - NW
• Boston Mandala
• Boston Quilt
• Boston Volcano