Here are some more maps to continue your summer light reading.
Captain Snow's Scetch of the Country
There's some questions online about who Captain Snow was but this is a beautifully hand drawn map of the lands south of Lake Erie with an interesting birds eye perspective. The fort across the river from "Log Town" is what is now Fort Pitt in the center of Pittsburgh. Some nice details of the forts and physical geography.
The "Obashee River" in the upper northwest corner confused me but I'm pretty sure it's what is now called the Wabash River.
Japan from Erwin J. Raisz's 1944
Atlas of Global Geography"The good cartographer is both a scientist and an artist" - Raisz, 1938
The above image is a bit blurry so here is a close up of Europe for a better feel for his artistry.
Cities of Ravines/Drumlins/Waterfalls by Daniel Rotsztain
Rotsztain is this month's GeoHipster. Here is his description of this map. "Southern Ontario’s physical geography is often derided as flat and boring, ignored behind 400-series superhighways and big box plazas. Beyond the highways, the landscape is dramatic! This map is an effort to re-assert these three cities’ beautiful landscapes into our geographic conscience."
Chaininess
The
Friendly Cities Lab at Georgia Tech made a series of
maps showing the "Chaininess" (percentage of restaurants that are chains) by metro areas. Aside from a few poorly located cities (Boston and Seattle are way too far south) this map shows some clear patterns. The methodology can be found
here.
Women's Tour de France
This event runs through Sunday.
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