Untapped Cities

Fun Maps: Williamsburg Judgmental Maps Highlights Stereotypes, Gentrification, Bad Smells

Will Nunziata’s recent judgmental map of Williamsburg is the latest attempt at breaking down NYC’s neighborhoods into as many generalizations as possible while offending/making us laugh. We covered a ...
Technical

Where Williamsburg’s partiers, tourists and Orthodox Jews come and go — in one map

In trying to better understand the world around us, mapping startup CARTO just released a pretty nifty map of where different Williamsburgers travel to using open taxi data. The map’s author, Wenfei ...
Untapped Cities

Take a Walking Tour of the New Domino Park in Williamsburg

In 2004, after 148 years of operation, the Domino Sugar Refinery, which once produced 3 million pounds of sugar a day–more than half of the sugar consumed in the entire country, closed. The site sat ...
The Virginian-Pilot

An exhibition at Colonial Williamsburg shows how early maps were used as propaganda to promote exploration

Colonial explorers created elaborate maps to track where they were going and to pinpoint their finds as they moved into the “New World.” The maps also made for good propaganda. They showed exotic ...
Daily Press

Look to the ceiling of Brass Cannon Brewing to see Williamsburg’s past through the Frenchman’s Map

Look up at Brass Cannon Brewing and you can see 239 years into the past. The staff of the Mooretown Road craft brewery is in the process of transforming the ceiling of their taproom into an outsized ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Marketing tool to bring more settlers to New World: Colonial Williamsburg art museum exhibit showcases colonial, early American maps

When European settlers mapped the American continents, they also faced the challenge of charting a course — and a reason — for others to follow suit. Starting Oct. 17, visitors to Colonial ...