{"id":1216,"date":"2008-10-06T22:05:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T02:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2016-12-27T16:54:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T21:54:48","slug":"massachusetts-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/10\/06\/massachusetts-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pretty annoyed that it seemed impossible to find a map that showed all the towns and cities in Massachusetts. Google Maps or the like don&#8217;t cut it for what I was looking for: <em>just<\/em> the town &#8216;political boundaries.&#8217; It turns out that Massachusetts has a sizeable GIS repository, appropriately named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/mgis\/\">MassGIS<\/a>. So I grabbed a couple map sets and used <a href=\"http:\/\/qgis.org\/\">QGIS<\/a> to make my own map. It doesn&#8217;t provide an &#8220;Export as PNG&#8221; option, so I panned around, saving them as images, and then used Windows Live Photo Gallery to assemble them as a &#8216;panorama.&#8217; (I was going to use Photoshop, but there was no need!) I let QGIS color the map based on county, though with the data MassGIS provides, I could have just as easily done it based on the population, number of schools, number of police officers, number of lakes, or a *lot *of other variables. At 4431&#215;2893 pixels, it&#8217;s &#8220;only&#8221; 2.26 MB as a PNG. Since all I really did was stitch a couple GIS datasets together and check a few options in QGIS, I&#8217;m releasing this map into the public domain. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/n1zyy\/2008\/10\/bigmassmap.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1217\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/files\/2008\/10\/bigmassmap-300x195.png\" alt=\"A giant map of Massachusetts towns\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pretty annoyed that it seemed impossible to find a map that showed all the towns and cities in Massachusetts. Google Maps or the like don&#8217;t cut it for what I was looking for: just the town &#8216;political boundaries.&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/10\/06\/massachusetts-map\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}