Maps of cities
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A misspelling on an official sign can outlive everyone who noticed it
Disputed borders and disputed place names both surface on the same digital map
Shrinking a city onto one sheet makes some neighbourhoods look central and others vanish
How reliable is the building footprint data your city publishes?
Harry Beck's London tube map threw away geography and every transit system copied it
Why does your navigation app still route you down a street that no longer exists?
Official city maps routinely leave informal settlements off the sheet
The spatial turn taught urban historians to read maps as arguments rather than background
Cadastral maps settle property lines long after the surveyor has died
Historic fire insurance maps record building materials block by block
OpenStreetMap fills in the places commercial maps never bother with
Every map of a city tells you who paid for the survey
Street view cameras started a privacy argument that nobody has settled
Sanborn fire insurance maps let you reconstruct a city block by block
Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City maps San Francisco through essays instead of streets
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