Darlinghurst mapped: Google vs Public Sydney
Spent a few too many hours since Christmas doing my Public Sydney puzzle the slow way - without looking at the picture or other maps to help!
The complex in the middle here puzzled me - I had no idea what or where it was. Turns out it's the National Art School, in the marvellous historic buildings of one of our oldest prisons: https://nas.edu.au/history/
Anyway, it really brought home the different perceptions of a city via different maps (cont)
@jroper Have you worked with OpenStreetMap data? I find it much more enjoyable for "exploring" than Google Maps.
@jakecoppinger I do a ton of my research with it - but I've surprisingly not used it much personally. Now I'm looking at the same area for comparison, I like the more even-handed approach to what to show - like how it shows many icons for points of interest when you zoom in, even though only labelling a few, for space. The current Google Maps interface doesn't give the same impression of intensity of use, apart from the faint yellow areas.
