The New Yorker on Road Maps and Directions

This week’s New Yorker has a long article by Nick Paumgarten on mapping, the principal focus of which is driving directions, but which has lots of little digressions into cognate areas like road maps (and their history) and digital mapping data providers (another ridealong — see previous entries: 1, 2 — Navteq + New York this time). A big article that I believe has been in preparation for some months, and definitely worth a read.

Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 at 9:46 AM
Categories: Driving Directions, Roads, Surveying

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Thanks for the link. I went to college in NYC and have always been fascinated by maps. It was great to live there and consult various maps, along with word of mouth from those who had travelled certain routes, in order to find the best way from point to point while avoiding tolls and choke points. I doubt that NavTeq could ever deploy enough ground-truthers to ever eliminate the need for paper road maps and personal experience.

jim linnane | 04/18/2006 at 5:03 AM | #

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