And here are some cool maps of LA that the Library of Congress has online. The one above is an “automobile roads” map of LA, c. 1915, via the AAA, showing the old family digs …
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And here are some cool maps of LA that the Library of Congress has online. The one above is an “automobile roads” map of LA, c. 1915, via the…
Beautiful. I love how the map perspective changes right at the downtown boundary. A gorgeous map.
Question: Can a laptop with only 512mb of RAM, running a Centrino mobile processor, open a 25mb .jp2 image file downloaded from the Library Of Congress?
Answer: No. Uncompress a 25mb .jp2 all at once in an image-editing program and it takes a LOT more ram than 512mb. You will page to the hard drive for so long, you’d give up before seeing the first penstroke of the file.
I find it irksome, but 512Mb is really on the side of “too small.” Annoying, but true.
I love maps, in general, and this one is pretty fun. First, because today it’s a single megalopolis stretching from the left-hand side of the map (above) to the right, one solid conurbation with the transition between cities marked only by signs.
And second because of the towns listed — and the towns that have vanished, at least by that name. Tropico, Savannah, Bassett, Spadra, Lemon, Lordsburg, Wineville — towns that got renamed at some point, or else got absorbed by their neighbors. Tiny bits of history existing only as footnotes on old maps.