Alasdair Rae of Stats, Maps in addition to Pix has decided to run an experiment on people's perceptions of their town or metropolis boundaries. He has hence released an interactive map which allows anyone to depict where they mean value the boundary of their abode town is.
Draw Your City allows y'all to zoom inwards on whatever place inwards the world. You tin in addition to so depict an outline roughly your town or city, showing the extent of your town or city's boundary. After drawing your boundary y'all in addition to so tin country how long y'all convey lived at the place in addition to piece of occupation out a lilliputian comment close the location.
If y'all click on the 'View Maps' link y'all tin likewise persuasion all the boundaries that other people convey drawn. This allows y'all to come across how closed your concept of your town's size conforms amongst other peoples. If y'all click on a boundary on the map y'all tin likewise read the comments that other users convey left.
Alasdair's projection is based on Colin Ross' Where is Sydney?. Colin's map is inwards plough inspired past times the Neighborhoods Mapping Project. All 3 mapping projects purpose Nick Martinelli's crowd-sourcing neighborhood boundaries code, which is available on GitHub.
