I went to the Conflux Festival on Saturday morning and attended a talk by Matt Knutzen entitled Rebuilding the Historical City. Matt’s a cartographer working at the NYPL and he was explaining a new tool they’ve built – and the Very Big Idea behind the tool. The NYPL has over 60,000 maps of NYC in… Continue reading Mapping the City
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Random Thoughts at NYPL
I spent part of Saturday working at the NYPL branch on 5th & 42nd (it’s the best place to get a desk to work at in the entire city). Here are a couple of ramblings: In the morning, the reading hall was filled with tourists and people working with Mac computers. By mid-afternoon there were… Continue reading Random Thoughts at NYPL