Platial News and Neogeography

Help Tia and Nishant Figure out where to go on their Honeymoon

Nishant Mehta and his fiance Tia have put a MapKit up on their blog to solicit honeymoon destination suggestions. Just look at these handsome, happy people. They're in love and they need us! Visit the blog Who Would've Thought to leave your romantic ideas. Here are the criteria they want you to take into consideration:

1) We are on our honeymoon and not to sightsee - so preferably we’d like to avoid cities except as our point of origin and departure. Of course, another reason to avoid cities is to be away from the hustle and bustle that will greet us anyway when we return to New York

2) The wedding’s in January 2008, so many places in North America and Europe, for example, would be too cold for a honeymoon. Ideal weather: high-70s to high-80s (in Fahrenheit)

3) Not too kid-friendly or touristy, please.

Multnomah County Libraries MapKit

A friend of ours pointed us yesterday to the Multnomah Public Library's MapKit. This is Platial's hometown library system, so we're kind of geekily excited to see this. Our bosoms swell with local pride.

Williamsburg Towers

Another stunning map from Will over at On NY Turf. He is doing amazing stuff with these overlays, and he's a cool guy. During my recent trip to NYC he invited me to a lovely Korean dumpling house up on W 32nd St. Get the Kimchee ones, no joke!

Anyway, as a previous Williamsburg resident, it's so strange to see the furious pace of change in that SOHO to be hood.

The main issues that the locals have with all this development are:

1. being priced out of the area (which arguably the massive amounts of development could offset (adding supply to the equation))


2. overloading the already smothered infrastructure (subway, utilities, small roads, fire & police) with the exponential growth that is happening there right now

On the topic, check out NAG: Neighbors Allied for Good Growth

Euler's Hollow Earth

Another great find from one of my favorite feeds, Strangemaps, An illustration/map of the Hollow Earth. You can read up on what this all means right here and also here.

(Via strange maps.)