A FEW years ago, Katherine Dieckmann, a screenwriter, director and longtime West Village resident, drew her husband, Brian Wallis, an intricate map of street parking spots in their neighborhood, fully annotated with dates, hours and idiosyncratic commentary.
Since its release in 2011, Hollaback! has created a crowdsourced map of street harassment incidents directed at women and LGBTQ individuals with the hope of putting a stop to catcalling and other forms of sexual harassment.
"We have started to appear on the world map of street art.
Now they are creating and editing the underlying maps of streets, highways, rivers and coastlines.
Ever since Google released easy-to-use software tools for its nifty on-screen maps of streets and satellite images a year ago, fans have set off an explosion of creative overlaps, adding their own useful and sometimes quirky data.
A map of Wake County streets was overlaid on the study map to determine which street intersections and local businesses were within the "hot spots".
But the shards actually form a stylized map of the streets surrounding the Stonewall, where gay patrons fought back against the police for the first time.
More recently, the Map Kibera project has used the participatory technologies of GPS and OpenStreetMap to enable residents of Kenya's biggest slum to make a digital map of their streets and alleyways.
But the rebels trusted him enough to give him his own apartment, where his job was to build a model of the Congress and to draw a detailed map of the streets around the building.
To ward off congestion and commuter frustration, marathon officials have issued a course closure grid, a map of additional streets that will be closed Sunday and various other maps and tools to navigate across the county that morning.
Writer accompanies Bailey on a mapping survey of streets between 34th and 21st St., from Eleventh to First Ave.
