{"id":1786961,"date":"2019-01-10T18:24:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T23:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786961"},"modified":"2019-01-10T18:24:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T23:24:14","slug":"giant-1940-model-of-san-francisco-digitally-assembled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/giant-1940-model-of-san-francisco-digitally-assembled\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant 1940 Model of San Francisco Digitally Assembled"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WPA<\/a><\/p>\n

A massive wooden model of the city of San Francisco that has not been on display, at least in one piece, since 1942 has been re-assembled as a virtual model by the David Rumsey Map Collection<\/a>. Built by the WPA, the model was assembled from 158 individual pieces to form a massive, 42×38-foot (12.8×11.6m) model at a scale of 1:1,200, and represented a snapshot of the city as it was in 1940. It’s available as a single composite image<\/a>, as well as images of individual pieces<\/a>; a Google Earth layer<\/a> enables the model to be viewed at an oblique angle and superimposed on modern satellite imagery. Sections of the model itself will be on display at various branches of the San Francisco Public Library as part of Bik Van der Pol’s Take Part<\/em><\/a> project; the exhibits will take place between 25 January and 25 March 2019. [Boing Boing<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Previously: Urbano Monte’s 1587 World Map, Digitally Assembled<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A massive wooden model of the city of San Francisco that has not been on display, at least in one piece, since 1942 has been re-assembled as a virtual model by the David Rumsey Map… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[372,54,400,562],"class_list":["post-1786961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-unusual-maps","tag-big-maps","tag-cities","tag-rumsey","tag-san-francisco","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1805778,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/12\/map-heaven\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786961,"position":0},"title":"‘Map Heaven’","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 December 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"\u201cI call this \u2018map heaven,\u2019\u201d said G. 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