{"id":886,"date":"2012-03-27T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/woodcut-maps\/"},"modified":"2012-03-27T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T14:31:00","slug":"woodcut-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/woodcut-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodcut maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/_If-kcIb6pg\/woodcut-maps.html\">Woodcut maps<\/a>: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Picture-2.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Picture-2.png?resize=498%2C495\" title=\"Picture 2\" width=\"498\"><\/a><br \/>I really dig creative work that turns a sense of place into art. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m really getting a kick out of <a href=\"http:\/\/woodcutmaps.com\/\">WoodcutMaps.com<\/a>, which uses Google Maps to create really great geometric art\u2014some clearly map-like, others much more abstract.<br \/>It all depends on what view of the map you choose to have turned into a woodcut. You can do a tight crop, or wide pull-out. Basically, you choose the view that matters to you. They make it art. Above is what my neighborhood in Minneapolis would look like as a woodcut.<br \/>At $100 for an 8&#215;8 square, this isn&#8217;t cheap. But it is very cool and strikes me as something that would make a nice housewarming gift for a special friend, or an anniversary gift for parents who&#8217;ve lived in the same place for decades.<br \/>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2012\/03\/26\/custom-woodcut-maps\/\">Flowingdata<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ryansager\">Ryan Sager<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=1bf4266bd12f8f6abad55db114b0605a&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=1bf4266bd12f8f6abad55db114b0605a&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/_If-kcIb6pg\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woodcut maps: I really dig creative work that turns a sense of place into art. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m really getting a kick out of WoodcutMaps.com, which uses Google Maps to create really great geometric art\u2014some clearly map-like, others much more abstract.It all depends on what view of the map you choose to have turned into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-ei","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}