Enjoy!

…and Brazil (which also looks nice in night mode).

…which got Paul thinking about smaller areas he wanted to see, like Andorra, Brunei*, Taiwan…

* this is Brunei/Malaysia/Singapore (many thanks to Geofabrik for these OSM exports)

…so then Katherine was all “um, Hong Kong?” (love this one! look at those neighborhoods! a new favorite)…

…so then Mark wanted a Finland (which also looks sharp on black, evoking NASA's Earth Lights image)…

I dusted off the code over the weekend because Karlie was wanting a version of Alaska to give to a friend who moved there and is feeling the disconnect* of living in a very rural area.

* no offense to Alaska, which is stunning and arguably better for its lack of pavement

For a while, we sold these for fun, along with versions for individual states and a handful of countries. (The history and longer explanation: www.benfry.com/allstreets/s...)

Nowadays we give them to friends* when they visit the studio.

* if you're a friend, you should come visit; nudge nudge

Ah, the Generativjugend…

(But mostly upset at how this preys not just on younger students, but the under-resourced teachers who are working their a**es off trying to do right by their kids, and have been conned into thinking that this is the future.)

Yeah! And in fact, one such paper was the original Leowontin paper from 1964… So many papers that cited other papers that cited it, but wanted to dig up the original.

(Looks like it's just online now, so… yay? But still was interesting to see the rest of the journal, adjacent issues, for context…)

I fully understand why it's happening, I understand that the lack of foot traffic means business as usual simply doesn't make sense anymore, I understand my experience wasn't everyone's else's experience with those libraries… But I'm mourning the loss & the missed opportunities anyway.

Thank you!! We're all a bit overwhelmed.

And here's a video about it (complete with me waving my hands around talking about what we're building with Pardis and Christian)…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Jr...

I'm really struggling with what to even say, but here's a perfect articulation of the work from John Palfrey, the President of the Foundation:

Most worthwhile thing Apple's done in years.