passportharlem:

Money makin’ midwest quilts with a shout out to my hometown, Fort Wayne, Indiana. 

zachklein:

My friend Emily Fischer runs a custom quilt studio called Haptic Lab and she just introduced a Great Lakes quilt. If you grew up in this region, you might feel as fondly about this as I do.

She’s accepting pre-orders for $150, then she’s going to do a big run and deliver in May.

“David Imus worked alone on his map seven days a week for two full years. Nearly 6,000 hours in total. It would be prohibitively expensive just to outsource that much work. But Imus—a 35-year veteran of cartography who’s designed every kind of map for every kind of client—did it all by himself. He used a computer (not a pencil and paper), but absolutely nothing was left to computer-assisted happenstance. Imus spent eons tweaking label positions. Slaving over font types, kerning, letter thicknesses. Scrutinizing levels of blackness. It’s the kind of personal cartographic touch you might only find these days on the hand-illustrated ski-trail maps available at posh mountain resorts.”

(via The best American wall map: David Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” - Slate Magazine)

viafrank:

I love these Google Earth finds by Claes Källarsson. Seriously, is this real life?

Good thing we got rid of all these rail lines.

socialcaterpillar:

twin city rapid transit co. electric streetcar line map, 1913

scrapped in the ’50s by general motors.

Minneapolis is on the list of possible cities. How far can you get in 15? 20? 30 minutes?

latimes:

Mapnificent is a tool that visualizes the places you can reach on public transportation given a certain amount of time. Custom settings let you note how long it takes you to get to transit stations, with an experimental option to calculate traffic by adjusting for time of day (though it doesn’t seem to account for L.A.’s gridlock).

There are maps for Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and the Bay Area. (via highcountrynews)

Map: Shows areas available by public transit within 15 minutes from the Los Angeles Times. Credit: Mapnificent

good:

In 1944, a cartographer named Harold Fisk traced the mighty Mississippi River, as it flowed in his day, with a thin, snaking line of white. He pored over geological maps and added a series of earth-toned ribbons showing where he thought the river had flowed in previous decades.

Map via NPR’s Krulwich Wonders as adapted from Harold Fiske’s 1944 Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River

Click through to see the whole amazing map.

What the Flooding Mississippi Means for America’s Dinner - Food - GOOD