City Maps for Type Nerds (and Lost Tourists)

City Maps for Type Nerds (and Lost Tourists):

Note: “There was nothing automated about making these maps, unless you count copying and pasting. Everything was laid out manually, from tracing streets over an OpenStreetMap image, to nudging curved water text, to selectively erasing text to create a woven street pattern.”

Has the novelty of the “hand-made” evolved to include the unscripted digital?