New to me...pretty cool.  I notice 74 is missing. Any others you don't see?

 

http://www.chrisyates.net/reprographics/index.php?page=424

That's really cool!

reminds me of the disproportional way that the subway maps of cities such as London and DC are represented.

yeah, they subway mapized it, but not quite as well -- i didnt know I-71 and I-77 went to toledo.

 

all in all it makes ohio look overbuilt for highways at that time, but i guess thats where industry was in those days.

 

i heard eisenhower had these highways built for military reasons not for commercial, is that true?

 

 

yeah, they subway mapized it, but not quite as well -- i didnt know I-71 and I-77 went to toledo.

 

all in all it makes ohio look overbuilt for highways at that time, but i guess thats where industry was in those days.

 

i heard eisenhower had these highways built for military reasons not for commercial, is that true?

 

 

 

ike gave a test run of a military caravan across the us before the highways. It took a long time, then ike built freeways.

yeah, they subway mapized it, but not quite as well -- i didnt know I-71 and I-77 went to toledo.

 

 

Look closer they don't in this.

 

I once heard that one mile in every five has to...oh nevermind...

I once heard that one mile in every five has to...oh nevermind...

 

 

A widespread urban legend states that one out of every five miles of the Interstate Highway System must be built straight and flat so as to be usable by aircraft during times of war; this is not true.

http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/mayjun00/onemileinfive.htm

 

EDIT: The one problem I do see with the map is that I-75 doesn't end where it should.  It goes on to Miami, FL. 

I cannot figure out how I feel about this map...it some ways its neat, but there are some glaring mistakes (as have been mentioned).  You could also do a better job at illustrating where the interstates criss-cross more/less.

i heard eisenhower had these highways built for military reasons not for commercial, is that true?

The interstate highway system had a stated "military" purpose because that was a permitted purpose for federal action as stated in the US Constitution.  It could have happened that someone would have tried to stop construction on the grounds that "it was not constitutional".

 

At least that's my take.  These speculations that I have heard that the military would close the interstates during wartime for only military use are kind of daff.  Not that you made that contention.  It was Mr. Hoso back in 8th grade history. 

Interesting map for sure.

 

Subway maps are at least sometimes a form of linear cartogram, where the distances are distorted to reflect travel time.  In this map there doesn't seem to be any such logic behind the distance distortions, so I guess it remains just "interesting," at least in that regard.

Interesting map for sure.

 

Subway maps are at least sometimes a form of linear cartogram, where the distances are distorted to reflect travel time.  In this map there doesn't seem to be any such logic behind the distance distortions, so I guess it remains just "interesting," at least in that regard.

 

didn't I say that? just minus the map dork description?

yeah, they subway mapized it, but not quite as well -- i didnt know I-71 and I-77 went to toledo.

 

Look again where Toledo's dot is. I-71 and I-77 are going to it.

 

EDIT: The one problem I do see with the map is that I-75 doesn't end where it should.  It goes on to Miami, FL. 

 

But that part of I-75 was a late addition to the system originally identified in the 1956 law.

 

i heard eisenhower had these highways built for military reasons not for commercial, is that true?

 

Partly. He recognized it had military and commercial importance. The official name for the federal act which created the interstate system was the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956. A greater influence on Eisenhower was his experience with the German Autobahn at the end of WWII. He also insisted that interstate highways not go into U.S. cities, but instead go around them as the Autobahns did. Near the end of his administration in 1960, he was riding in his limousine through the streets of D.C. when he came upon a gash in the city of ripped out neighborhoods. He asked an aide what was being built. "That's your Interstate highway system sir," the aide said. Eisenhower was mortified.

I love how, here in the post-neocon era, Eisenhower has become the patron saint of progressives.

 

He WAS dead-nuts on about the whole military-industrial complex thing...

Neat map!

So there is a way to get from Mexico to Canada! 

yeah, they subway mapized it, but not quite as well -- i didnt know I-71 and I-77 went to toledo.

 

Look again where Toledo's dot is. I-71 and I-77 are going to it.

 

 

City names are to the right of their dots. 71 and 77 go to Cleveland on the map.

Interesting map for sure.

 

Subway maps are at least sometimes a form of linear cartogram, where the distances are distorted to reflect travel time.  In this map there doesn't seem to be any such logic behind the distance distortions, so I guess it remains just "interesting," at least in that regard.

 

didn't I say that? just minus the map dork description?

Well, yes.  The map dork description was kind of a follow-up to your comment!

But, per the diagram, I-80 now goes through Erie on its way to Wilkes-Barre, and I-90 goes north from Cleveland to Buffalo (perhaps along the James Rhodes Memorial Lake Erie crossing?)

Yep, that one's a boo-boo. That dot at the junction of I-80 and I-79 should be Mercer, PA. I-79 should be extended through to I-90, where Erie's dot should be. But was I-79 proposed during the Eisenhower era to go all the way to Erie? Either way, the Erie dot is in the wrong place.

The interstate highway system had a stated "military" purpose because that was a permitted purpose for federal action as stated in the US Constitution.  It could have happened that someone would have tried to stop construction on the grounds that "it was not constitutional".

 

I'd imagine that the last person to argue that successfully was Andrew Jackson when he vetoed the Maysville road - but I have no doubt that you're right about the military uses being a selling point.  Also evacuation in case of a nuclear attack, which while not purely military is certainly a matter of national defense...

 

A Lot of 2XX 4XX 6XX Interstates are missing but I believe that was because adding those would make the map even more convoluted than it already is. XD

 

I also noticed 74 was missing.  Definitely a slip up.

 

i like how all of us are absurdly critical for something none of us have done ourselves.

 

think his map sucks? make one yourself.

yeah, they subway mapized it, but not quite as well -- i didnt know I-71 and I-77 went to toledo.

 

Yeah it makes it look like Cincinnati is only two hours from DC when you consider that is the distance between Tampa & Daytona Beach. 

>i like how all of us are absurdly critical for something none of us have done ourselves.  think his map sucks? make one yourself.

 

 

It's about follow-through, brother. 

So, any of us dorks filling in Chris Yates on how out-of-whack his map is?

^Yes.  In response he made a Canadian one.

http://www.chrisyates.net/reprographics/

>i like how all of us are absurdly critical for something none of us have done ourselves.  think his map sucks? make one yourself.

 

 

It's about follow-through, brother. 

 

i'm anxiously waiting for yours jake.

i like how all of us are absurdly critical for something none of us have done ourselves.

 

think his map sucks? make one yourself.

 

aww i could do it better...and i will....when i hear the true calling.

 

Interesting map concept. With some tweaking and error correction, it would be better though.  The creator would do well to look at a roadmap of Michigan, for instance.

A Lot of 2XX 4XX 6XX Interstates are missing but I believe that was because adding those would make the map even more convoluted than it already is.

 

Those urban highways were not part of the original Eisenhower system, hence the reason for their exclusion (same reason as I stated for the exclusion of I-75 to Miami).

 

i like how all of us are absurdly critical for something none of us have done ourselves.

 

think his map sucks? make one yourself.

 

I did one for the West Shore Corridor project I'm working on (see below). Also, see http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=6001.0 for more information.

 

^nerd!

I-26 is missing

 

^nerd!

 

Yes, but a paid nerd.