Reddit user atrubetskoy has been making or therefore pop Urban Dictionary maps lately. I detail liked his map of the Bay Area According to Urban Dictionary. In fact I liked it therefore much that I stole the idea.
Urban Dictionary is is a crowd-sourced online lexicon of slang words in addition to phrases. It likewise seems to live on a identify where a lot of white middle-class kids become to depict their white, middle-class neighborhood every bit a 'gangsta ghetto'.
The methodology for atrubetskoy' maps is really simple. He merely types inward a urban heart or a neighborhood advert into Urban Dictionary in addition to and therefore adds the Definition he finds to his Urban Dictionary map.
I decided to practise my ain version of atrubetskoy's map amongst Mapbox Studio Classic. Mapbox Studio Classic's CartoCSS allows you lot to modify place-names, therefore it is a groovy agency to re-label a map.
To modify place-name labels inward Mapbox Studio Classic you lot merely involve to discovery the CartoCSS for the administrative degree that you lot want to modify (in my representative this was degree type 'city', 'town' in addition to 'village'). Then all you lot involve to practise is type inward the place-name you lot want to modify in addition to its replacement. So to modify 'San Francisco' to 'Tha City' I add,
[name_en='San Francisco'] {
text-name: '"Tha City"';
}
to the CartoCSS for urban heart labels.
So - hither is my Urban Dictionary Map of San Francisco.
