Great Exploration Maps

Nifty map showing some of the great voyages in history and literature. If you're in the travelling mood.

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via Kottke

Military Installations are Pretty Walkable

Streetsblog has an interesting post analyzing census data to list the places that house the highest percentage of people who walk to work. On the list:

Naval Academy, Maryland
West Point, NY
Air Force Academy, Colorado
Lackland AFB, TX

These are all relatively low-population places, but even if you increase the total population threshold to 20,000, Fort Bragg and Fort Hood are both on the top ten list.

So, the moral of the story is that military installations have good conditions for a pedestrian environment to thrive, they just need the planning to encourage it.

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Via Planetizen

Clever Wayfinding

This parking garage is painted so that you can see which way to go if you're looking at it from the right angle.

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Thanks, Doug

Walmart's Spread

Doug sent this out to everyone, but it's worth putting up here too. Some smart person has put together a really cool looking visualization of the spread of Walmart stores across the country.

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Thanks Doug