In Ithaca there exists the best intersection ever — where Penny Lane meets Lois Lane: It turns out that this is not the only Lois Lane. There are others, such as this one, in the suburbs of Detroit. My wife noted that we now need a Peter Parkway. Anyone aware of that street?
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A Town Named Migrate, KY
In a Wall Street Journal article about winning the American green card lottery due to a computer error, there’s a great anecdote: In the days when the lottery was paper-based, the State Department’s Kentucky Consular Center, which handles the program, created a post-office address with a fictitious city named Migrate, Ky., putting the address on [...]
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Connecticut’s Panhandle and New York’s Oblong
Connecticut, like a number of other states, has its own panhandle. However, due to circumstances surrounding its creation, it created a mysterious region in New York State, known as the Oblong. Here is the story of the creation of both, in brief: Under a new agreement of November 28, 1683 the boundary between Connecticut and [...]
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The International Dateline in Jewish Law
There are many examples where geekiness meets Judaism. Sierpinski Hamantaschen, for example. Well, here’s one case where geography nerdiness combines with Jewish Law: the International Dateline. When Jewish laws were first being debated and discussed, the spherical nature of the Earth was not on many rabbis’ minds. And crossing the Pacific? Even less so. But [...]
The City-States of America
We do not really think much about city-states anymore. With the exceptions of such places as Singapore and Hong Kong, the term “city-state” often conjures up the image of Athens or Sparta. However, through a bit of number-crunching of data from the United States Census, I have found a new way to think of city-states [...]
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Milky Way Transit Authority
In the style of many others who have used the subway map concept to understand a certain subject, I now present the Milky Way Transit Authority, a map of our own galaxy in the style of a subway map. I need lots of feedback so please be unstinting in your criticism.
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Frumination: a blog with lots of public transit info
Michael Frumin has a great blog, Frumination, chock full of information about public transportation, mainly the NYC Subway. There are graphs, maps, pictures, and much more, with lots of data and links to data. A few interesting posts: NYC Subway capacity analysis Urban GPS and congestion pricing Sources of NYC Traffic Data Enjoy playing.
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AlertMap: Real-Time Global Disaster Map
While actually dealing with the entire planet rather than just cities, AlertMap is a really interesting site. It displays, in real-time, all the disasters that have befallen the Earth recently (and it is extremely comprehensive too). The WSJ had an article about it where you can find out more.
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Visual Complexity: complex system visualizations
Visual Complexity is a collection and clearinghouse for hundreds of depictions of complex networks, from all over the Internet. Among the many categories, there is one devoted entirely to transportation networks. Here is the goal of the site, in their own words: VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the [...]
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Metropolitan Cardiac Authority
The t-shirt with an urban perspective on physiology.
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