The Best Map of a City: The Nolli Map of Rome
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Date: 2019-09-12
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ikmarchini
Google's satellite based maps are a disaster. Detail is not clear. And they either don't label or worse mislabel many streets and roads. House numbers and route numbers are inaccurate. The farther you get from Mountain View CA the worse they are. In Europe Google maps are only partially usable and beyond Europe they are useless. it's too bad they have cornered the market. I'm waiting for a start-up to knock them out of the internet box. The best street map of Rome I've seen is the Michelin at 1: 10000, even if it doesn't show every McDonald's.
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Google's satellite based maps are a disaster. Detail is not clear. And they either don't label or worse mislabel many streets and roads. House numbers and route numbers are inaccurate. The farther you get from Mountain View CA the worse they are. In Europe Google maps are only partially usable and beyond Europe they are useless. it's too bad they have cornered the market. I'm waiting for a start-up to knock them out of the internet box. The best street map of Rome I've seen is the Michelin at 1: 10000, even if it doesn't show every McDonald's.
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Theo Shouse
Hello, I live in Seattle and I have an interesting issue I think you could do a video on. In Seattle, we have a great bus system, but recently in downtown, the city has built these (expensive) streetcars. They don't seem to be any better than buses because they run right in the street where they also get stuck in traffic. Nobody uses them, they aren't practical, and I'm wondering if they are a big waste of tax dollars. What do you think? It would be great if you made a video on these. Thanks
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Hello, I live in Seattle and I have an interesting issue I think you could do a video on. In Seattle, we have a great bus system, but recently in downtown, the city has built these (expensive) streetcars. They don't seem to be any better than buses because they run right in the street where they also get stuck in traffic. Nobody uses them, they aren't practical, and I'm wondering if they are a big waste of tax dollars. What do you think? It would be great if you made a video on these. Thanks
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Robert Hamman
My personal favorite is a book reproduction of Bacon's Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs from the Edwardian era. It's spread across 34 sheets for the main map, but also has some smaller scale ones for fire districts and the like. The book itself is The A to Z of Edwardian London pubished by the London Topographical Society. I enjoy having it around from my month-long visit there, getting to see places I recognize as they were a century or so earlier.
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My personal favorite is a book reproduction of Bacon's Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs from the Edwardian era. It's spread across 34 sheets for the main map, but also has some smaller scale ones for fire districts and the like. The book itself is The A to Z of Edwardian London pubished by the London Topographical Society. I enjoy having it around from my month-long visit there, getting to see places I recognize as they were a century or so earlier.
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Sander Vercammen
Might be the best 18th century city map. But the most impressive map of the 18th century must be the ferarris map of the entire austrian netherlands (modern day belgium. All the roads and buildings are on it, as well as markings of solidary trees and other landmarks, different fields, and borders of counties. There is a site that you can use to compare it with modern day maps, and it's correct within metres.
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Might be the best 18th century city map. But the most impressive map of the 18th century must be the ferarris map of the entire austrian netherlands (modern day belgium. All the roads and buildings are on it, as well as markings of solidary trees and other landmarks, different fields, and borders of counties. There is a site that you can use to compare it with modern day maps, and it's correct within metres.
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Andrew Kelsey
I am inspired I volunteered to make a map to depict parking locations for the local town center organization. I really like the figure to ground idea. I have already drawn the buildings as homogenous blocks, but to add details of the public spaces would be really awesome. I'm going to give it a go and then drop all these terms as if I'm a well studied cartographer.
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I am inspired I volunteered to make a map to depict parking locations for the local town center organization. I really like the figure to ground idea. I have already drawn the buildings as homogenous blocks, but to add details of the public spaces would be really awesome. I'm going to give it a go and then drop all these terms as if I'm a well studied cartographer.
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Hayden Radford
When I thought it couldn't get any better, maps get added to the mix Love this video (and maps)As an Aussie, my favourite map is undoubtedly The Oxford Wall Maps of Australia 'Sheep & Wheat' map from Griffith Taylor and H. O. Beckit. Breaking down an entire country into its capacity to grow wheat and rear sheep is hilarious to see.
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When I thought it couldn't get any better, maps get added to the mix Love this video (and maps)As an Aussie, my favourite map is undoubtedly The Oxford Wall Maps of Australia 'Sheep & Wheat' map from Griffith Taylor and H. O. Beckit. Breaking down an entire country into its capacity to grow wheat and rear sheep is hilarious to see.
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DeerKoden
It is a worthy map to look at. Rome has several levels of ruins or remains underground. Even the buildings around the Fori Imperiali are basically built upon other remains and might hide some pretty valuable item or remain. Despite being mapped over the centuries, Rome isn't exactly a place without its own hidden secrets.
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It is a worthy map to look at. Rome has several levels of ruins or remains underground. Even the buildings around the Fori Imperiali are basically built upon other remains and might hide some pretty valuable item or remain. Despite being mapped over the centuries, Rome isn't exactly a place without its own hidden secrets.
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Evan Kennedy
You say Why did he bother to do this? Because that's how a person experiences Rome. Do you mean he created this map for the people of the day? If so, were maps of this detail readily copied? If so, how? If they were not readily copied, who would use this map, and why? Awesome video btw Glad YouTube recommended it.
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You say Why did he bother to do this? Because that's how a person experiences Rome. Do you mean he created this map for the people of the day? If so, were maps of this detail readily copied? If so, how? If they were not readily copied, who would use this map, and why? Awesome video btw Glad YouTube recommended it.
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constantinos schinas
beautiful. 12 years, 12 plates. would be nice to mention how many people worked. wonder why he chose sectioning the buildings in black and not showing roof structures. he could have combined sections and sectioned top views as well. interesting he shows the interior of big buildings as public spaces.
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beautiful. 12 years, 12 plates. would be nice to mention how many people worked. wonder why he chose sectioning the buildings in black and not showing roof structures. he could have combined sections and sectioned top views as well. interesting he shows the interior of big buildings as public spaces.
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Nevir202
Not really what you were asking for, but the only map Ive found that really seemed to grab me was the Imis Geographics The Essential Geography of the United States of America. I found it interesting that there was still, in the era of satellite and Google Maps, someone trying to bring some artistry to map making.
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Not really what you were asking for, but the only map Ive found that really seemed to grab me was the Imis Geographics The Essential Geography of the United States of America. I found it interesting that there was still, in the era of satellite and Google Maps, someone trying to bring some artistry to map making.
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