The other day I decided to snoop around on some of my old hard drives and discovered that I had quite a bit of imagery that I never used to create a map. Yesterday I decided to use some of this imagery to make today’s map. It features .3 meter per pixel imagery that was taken in 2002 of the area around Harvard University.
What is interesting about this imagery is that its really not .3 meters per pixel, but closer to .6 meters per pixel. I found this out when I was post-processing this map and discovered that when the imagery is viewed at its full resolution it becomes quite blurry. At first I thought that I had screwed up and over-projected the map, but when I reopened the source imagery I discovered that it was blurry to begin with. Had I known this, I would have only rendered the map at 9,000 x 6,000 (one half the current size) because this downsampling would make the map less blurry.
Anyways, I haven’t been as active on the mapping front because I’ve made just about every major city in America. I still intend on publishing an atlas featuring all of these maps, but I have yet to find an interested publisher and am wary about going down the self-publishing route. I would, however, love to start mapping cities in Europe. Please contact me if you can obtain public domain imagery of any European city.
View the Google Map of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Do you see the heart within a heart?
View the rest of the map details:
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
