Part 1: Where we are now Part 2: What’s wrong with transit maps Last week we talked about some of the issues in transit maps today. We are going to go over some of those same issues and talk about how to fix them in a broad sense, creating a new strategy for building transit …
Part 1: Where We are Now In the second installment in our series about making the case for better transit maps we are going to look at some of the common mistakes that are made in transit maps. We are going to point out what, in our opinion, are some of the most common …
For the past few months we have been attending the New York City GIS/Cartography Meetup and we wanted to share some of the great projects and groups we got to see at this most recent meetup. PDX Bike Share A team from Open Plans developed this community driven map that allows residents in …
This interactive map, created by trulia.com, a house and apartment listing site, shows the potential movement of people from different cities around the country. Using search data from their Winter 2012 Metro Mover’s Report, trulia was able to track the popularity of different cities among house hunters. To view which people are looking to move …
MetroTransit revealed the new name and identity for the light rail and Bus Rapid Transit system that will debut with the opening of the Central Corridor line in 2014. The new system, called the “Metro” will consist of the Hiawatha and Central Corridor light rail lines. The 35W and Cedar Avenue BRT lines will …
How sustainable is transportation in your neighborhood? The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) out of Chicago created this mapping tool to help determine how much it costs, both in dollars and pounds of CO2 emissions, to commute in given areas. The tool lists average cost of transportation per household in the neighborhood and how many metric …
Happy New Year maplovers! We’d like to share that Carticulate was featured in this week’s issue of the Minneapolis Downtown Journal, mapping out our story from the very beginning. Since we just moved to NYC, it’s nice to get some love from our hometown which we miss dearly- including our at times convoluted Skyway system. …
Carticulate is excited to announce that we are moving out to New York City this fall! The move will be taking place over the next few weeks and we will be full time in New York starting in November. We are anticipating heading out east and looking forward to new opportunities and connections in NYC! There …
Update 5/11: See below. This map has been getting a lot of attention the past 24 hours as it looks to settle a question that has been blogged about time and time again: what’s the hippest part of the country? The map produced by BuzzFeed has possibly settled that question and created a nice …
