{"id":11135,"date":"2019-07-08T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11135"},"modified":"2019-07-03T00:05:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T05:05:46","slug":"an-ohio-mapmaker-with-creativity-and-whimsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/an-ohio-mapmaker-with-creativity-and-whimsy\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ohio mapmaker with ‘creativity’ and ‘whimsy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AP has a neat little story<\/a> about the man who’s been in charge of designing the non-highway area on the back of the Ohio state map for nearly 20 years. There’s a video*, too, about the Easter eggs he puts in the photo collages that feature his daughter.<\/p>\n

I wish a little bit of that creativity would be applied to the actual map, though. In my opinion, Ohio’s state map<\/a> (large PDF) does not rank high from a cartographic-design perspective. It’s hard to tell between two-lane state and US routes, for example. I feel like those two-lane lines should be a hair thicker, although given Ohio’s larger and more squiggly network that might not be possible. Insistence on using the state-shape shield at that scale may be a factor in the clutter as well, although I’m sure many Ohioans take its use as a point of pride.<\/p>\n

*If the freaking Associated Press<\/em> can’t use “free rei[g]n” correctly, we’re all doomed. But we already knew that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The AP has a neat little story about the man who’s been in charge of designing the non-highway area on the back of the Ohio state map for nearly 20 years. There’s a video*, too, about the Easter eggs he … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11136,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135\/revisions\/11136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}