{"id":726,"date":"2010-03-15T12:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T12:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=726"},"modified":"2010-04-15T16:24:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:24:40","slug":"strange-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/03\/strange-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

Here\u2019s some inside baseball for you\u2014planners love maps. Mention letraset and T-squares to older planners and they\u2019ll start squirting tears for the good old days and bemoaning the cold computer line.<\/p>\n

Maps, no matter how they\u2019re made, have tremendous expressive potential and we planners argue long and hard about their content and style. Everyone has a different idea about land use colors, boundary lines, and north arrows.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s someone else<\/a> who cares about maps and I think two of them are of particular interest to planning in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n

Entry 441 <\/a>is a map of San Francisco\u2019s privately-owned public open spaces (POPOS). Montgomery County has its share of these and master plans recommend more. Will these public amenities, negotiated in exchange for additional revenue-generating density, melt into private property as they have in San Francisco? By the way, this is a beautiful map\u2014crisp, focused on its primary information, easy to print, and easy to read.<\/p>\n

And look at entry 439<\/a>, two postcard maps of Australia laid over different regions of the world, most notably the U.S. and Europe. Australia is big, and no matter what they say, size matters.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you get when you overlay a Sam Eig Highway interchange on Bethesda\u2019s Woodmont Triangle. <\/a><\/p>\n

How we spend our time and land is up to us, and next time someone tells you a place is walkable because it has brick sidewalks and street trees, ask them about scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s some inside baseball for you\u2014planners love maps. Mention letraset and T-squares to older planners and they\u2019ll start squirting tears for the good old days and bemoaning the cold computer line.<\/p>\n

Maps, no matter how they\u2019re made, have tremendous expressive potential and we planners argue long and hard about their content and style. Everyone has a different idea about land use colors, boundary lines, and north arrows.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s someone else who cares about maps and I think two of them are of particular interest to planning in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n

Entry 441 is a map of San Francisco\u2019s privately-owned public open spaces (POPOS). Montgomery County has its share of these and master plans recommend more. Will these public amenities, negotiated … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[73,71,74,72],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning","tag-australia","tag-maps","tag-san-francisco","tag-walkable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}