PLAYERS TASKS PRAXIS TEAMS EVENTS
Username:Password:
New player? Sign Up Here
Burn Unit
Clockwatcher
Level 6: 1791 points
Alltime Score: 12767 points
Last Logged In: June 7th, 2025
BADGE: Senator BADGE: INTERREGNUM BADGE: Journey To The End Of The Night Organizer TEAM: The Disorganised Guerilla War On Boredom and Normality TEAM: MNZero TEAM: Sockpuppets TEAM: Society for the Superior Completion of Tasks TEAM: Group Creation Public Badge TEAM: Team Shplank TEAM: The Imprisoners TEAM: Anti-Triclavianists TEAM: The Icepacks TEAM: SCIENCE! TEAM: SFØ Podcast TEAM: 0UT TEAM: Synaesthetics TEAM: LØVE TEAM: Public Library Zero TEAM: INFØ TEAM: The Cold War Reenactment Society TEAM: The Union of Non-Civilized Obedience and Invention BART Psychogeographical Association Rank 2: Trafficker EquivalenZ Rank 1: User The University of Aesthematics Rank 1: Expert Biome Rank 2: Ecologist Chrononautic Exxon Rank 1: Clockwatcher Society For Nihilistic Intent And Disruptive Efforts Rank 2: Trickster

View Burn Unit's:



retired



45 + 5 points

Strip Map by Burn Unit

May 1st, 2007 10:24 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Create a strip map modeled on Ogilby's maps.

"A strip map is a process map, a diagram of how to go from one place to another; route and destinations are predetermined. Ordinary maps are state maps describing the whole countryside; the user decides where to go from wherever he is."

Your map should provide an intimate description of what might be seen on a journey, from a slow moving vehicle or on foot.

Be sure to examine the example image below.

I created a strip map of the Central Avenue/3rd Avenue/Highway 65 bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. I'm particularly fond of the river bridges of Minneapolis. This one is right in the heart of the city, affording wonderful views. People love the Stone Arch Bridge, and that's cool for lots of reasons, but this one is a gem because it has a better view of the post office, in my opinion. The Minneapolis central post office is awesome!

Anyway, I was going to do object annotation on the bridge, and decided "why stop there?" Since my object annotation of details that I like had mostly to do with the process of crossing the bridge, I've multitasked the two together. The pdf is the strip map showing how to get from one end to the other and key waypoints for observing. Walkers of the bridge will find waypoint tags that match up with the number descriptions in the strip map/annotation guide.

The maps are gone from the bridge right now, but you can download them here and take your own walk!

- smaller

Highway 65 Bridge

Highway 65 Bridge

This is the Central/3rd Ave/Hwy 65 bridge over the Mississippi. I made a walking guide for it.


Strip Map-Annotation

Strip Map-Annotation

This is the pdf of the "walking guide" I put on the bridge.


Guides

Guides

Here's some of my strip map/annotation guides, laminated for all weather conditions.


Pillsbury side.

Pillsbury side.

View from the north side of the bridge.


View

View

Here's another view, this of the south or "Gold Medal" side of the river.


Guides for all

Guides for all

Here's some of the guides, hanging on a red yarn on the north side. The south end guides hang from black yarn.



1 vote(s)

5

Ohrlyeh Totenkinder


Terms

(none yet)

8 comment(s)

(no subject)
posted by Jackie H on May 1st, 2007 11:04 AM

are you trying to say that the mississippi river goes all the way up to minneapolis? that's crazy!

ha ha ha ha!
posted by Burn Unit on May 1st, 2007 11:23 AM

I know, it's totally absurd! All the way to Itasca in fact!

Ooooooooh
posted by Blue on May 1st, 2007 1:28 PM

I have been there.
If you walk up the river towards that place with the coblestone roads there is a cool little trail there.

Jackie- I like random capitalization Of words.
posted by Ink Tea on May 1st, 2007 5:56 PM

Don't believe him. Burn Unit is feeding you a load of hooey. Minnesota has a couple of lakes, and some fields. Oh. And a Mall. Great Shopping. The Mississippi is for Important states like Missouri.

(no subject)
posted by Burn Unit on May 1st, 2007 6:12 PM

wow holy crap. suddenly you're out to get me! I'll tell you what's crazy: if you count the mississippi and the missouri as big branches of essentially one river, which any fool looking at a map can see they are and that one of them (same map, same fool) runs all the way into Minnesota, then it's the longest river of them all.

(no subject)
posted by Ink Tea on May 2nd, 2007 6:32 AM

Not out to get you. Just enjoy insisting that completely plausible things couldn't possibly happen.

You are! You totally are!
posted by Burn Unit on May 2nd, 2007 11:27 AM

You're IN on it. You're in so deep a freemason would mistake you for his mother! You got the mark of the beast handsewn into the lining of your coinpurse!

True Story!
posted by Ink Tea on May 2nd, 2007 5:22 PM

Ever tell you how I used to sneak into the Lodge and play pool after midnight? The masons didn't even know I'd been there.