{"id":1305,"date":"2008-03-05T12:27:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/03\/05\/1305\/"},"modified":"2009-10-07T13:06:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T17:06:31","slug":"digital-globe-where-did-the-roads-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/03\/05\/1305\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Globe: Where did DC&#8217;s roads go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/browse.digitalglobe.com\/imagefinder\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/images\/no_streets_in_dc.jpg\" alt=\"Digital Globe's Image Browser\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><small><i>Screen grab featuring DC with very few roads<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I was looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalglobe.com\">Digital Globe&#8217;s website<\/a> the other day and I decided to zoom into Washington, DC.  The result was a map that only shows the major highways around the area.  What is missing, however, are all the roads in DC, even the ones that connect to the &#8220;major highways&#8221; outside of the District.  While the roads are not really needed to find locations of imagery, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that this is a good example of how an on-line mapping environments can leave out a lot more content than what should be included.  Since this map environment was designed to seek Digital Globe&#8217;s imagery, not highways, it would make more sense that the base layer shows archive satellite imagery and not ugly vector graphics that incompletely show the major transportation routes in DC.<\/p>\n<p>Notice:<br \/>\n&#8211; Two different city centers: Washington + Washington, DC<br \/>\n&#8211; In the margin map, the star next to Columbia is not District of Columbia, but South Carolina<br \/>\n&#8211; In the margin map, all cities are capitals as well<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallaudet.edu\/\">Gallaudet University<\/a> is the only university shown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Screen grab featuring DC with very few roads I was looking at Digital Globe&#8217;s website the other day and I decided to zoom into Washington, DC. The result was a map that only shows the major highways around the area. What is missing, however, are all the roads in DC, even the ones that connect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,260,364,21,301,56],"tags":[7092,5702,3575,3579,436,434,3580,3581,849,3576,3574,3578,3577,8662,6242],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-cartography","category-commentary","category-dc","category-highway","category-location","tag-cartography","tag-dc","tag-digital-globe","tag-district","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-error","tag-image-browser","tag-image-finder","tag-imagery","tag-major-highways","tag-map-criticism","tag-online-mapping","tag-roads","tag-transportation","tag-washington"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":173,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4605,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/4605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}