Toronto

Toronto’s Language Quilt
The greater Toronto area’s multicultural nature is vividly brought out by the Toronto Star’s extraordinary “language quilt” map (19.5 MB PDF), which shows the most dominant second language in a given census tract. (In 95 percent of the cases,… »
Posted on Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 9:53 AM
Categories: Languages & Linguistics, Toronto
Toronto Harbour, 1818
Last Wednesday’s Toronto Star had a brief item about an 1818 map of Toronto harbour, with lots of detail about the map itself and how it came into the current owner’s possession. Via Map the Universe…. »
Posted on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 7:19 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Toronto
Toronto Transit Map
Torontoist calls this transit map of Toronto “the best map ever in the history of anything.” What it looks like to me is the TTC transit map superimposed on a Google Maps interface. Not that that isn’t impressive in… »
Posted on Friday, December 15, 2006 at 9:51 AM
Categories: Hacks & Mashups, Mass Transit, Toronto
GTA Digital Mapping Project
Plep points to the Greater Toronto Area Digital Mapping Project, done by the University of Toronto’s map library. It’s old-style and not very accessible (it requires a plugin), but it’s got a collection of old maps and more recent aerial… »
Posted on Sunday, November 13, 2005 at 11:07 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Satellite & Aerial, Toronto

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