highways – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:42:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg highways – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Indiana State Maps Reprinted Over Spelling Error https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/01/indiana-state-maps-reprinted-over-spelling-error/ Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:42:43 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3768 More]]> Hundreds of thousands of Indiana state highway maps that misspelled the new governor’s name are being destroyed and reprinted at the vendor’s expense. (WTHR’s coverage does not indicate what the spelling error was.)  Misspelling the boss’s name is obviously politically awkward; I can’t help but suspect that actual cartographic errors would be let through with a sticker or an errata notice instead. [MAPS-L]

]]> 3768 The Cartographer Behind Virginia’s Official Highway Map https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/01/the-cartographer-behind-virginias-official-highway-map/ Fri, 06 Jan 2017 23:09:46 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3728 More]]> Virginia Official State Transportation Map (detail)
Virginia Official State Transportation Map (detail)

Official highway maps—paper highway maps—are still a thing: the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot has a profile of the Virginia Department of Transportation’s sole cartographer, Dwayne Altice, who’s responsible for the biennial updates to that state’s official transportation map. Includes some interesting behind-the-scenes detail about how the map is made—and how it used to be made (layers and layers of film). [WMS]

]]> 3728 Interchange Choreography https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/08/interchange-choreography/ Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:30:15 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=2686 More]]> Interchange Choreography is a collection of maps of complicated highway interchanges by Chicago-based designer Nicholas Rougeux. “Applying colors to roads and using connecting roads to blend those colors adds structure and breathes new life in to areas that are often avoided for their complexity. The results resemble everything from dancers to otherworldly creatures.”

New Jersey’s interchanges look particularly complicated:

Newark, New Jersey (Nicholas Rougeux)
Newark, New Jersey (Nicholas Rougeux)
Keasbey, New Jersey (Nicholas Rougeux)
Keasbey, New Jersey (Nicholas Rougeux)

Prints are also available. More at Slate and Fast Company. [Leventhal Map Center]

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