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Oct 7, 2012 7:36am

maps of lake merritt

Lake Merritt might be the Lenna of online cartography samples. Only one of these comes from someone who actually lives in Oakland:

—Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic, The Forgotten Mapmaker.

—Bret Victor on Learnable Programming.

—Mamata Akella on Esri Canvas Maps.

Comments (1)

  1. And how did you come across this idea? I was interested in cartography since google gave birth to his maps service, but learning everything from scratch about this science is way too much for a newbie. Why did you choose this lake and not another?

    Posted by Alex S. on Thursday, January 3 2013 6:39pm UTC

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