Places I have lived at equal scale, plus other cities
Brian Miller
National Geographic
explorer@millerx.com
I have seen the detail of the variety of the United States

These are images of places I have lived, including the open country where I grew up.

Trying to understand the scale of things, I always had a map on the wall. Unfortunately they were always different scale. I wanted to see how my bicycle exploration route lengths compared. Also the distance of a comfortable walk.

To satisfy my own curiosity, I made these; they are all equal scales, 10:1, 20:1, or 30:1. You can look at them too. The red spots are dwellings. I didn’t make the European cities where I have lived, yet.

You can see how the size of Wicker park, Chicago compares to The Mission, San Francisco, or East Village, NY.

Grand Ledge, MI
Lansing, MI
Kalamazoo, MI
Chicago, IL
Houston, TX
New Orleans, LA
Miami, FL
New York, NY

I also tossed in
Washington D.C.
San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Detroit, MI
chicago,IL-10 chicago,IL-20 chicago,IL-30
                       
detroit,MI-10 detroit,MI-20 detroit,MI-30
                       
fremont,MI-10 fremont,MI-20 fremont,MI-30
                       
grand-ledge,MI-10 grand-ledge,MI-20 grand-ledge,MI-30
                       
houston,TX-10 houston,TX-20 houston,TX-30
                       
kalamazoo,MI-10 kalamazoo,MI-20 kalamazoo,MI-30
                       
los-angeles,CA-10 los-angeles,CA-20 los-angeles,CA-30
                       
miami,FL-10 miami,FL-20 miami,FL-30
                       
new-orleans,LA-10 new-orleans,LA-20 new-orleans,LA-30
                       
new-york,NY-10 new-york,NY-20 new-york,NY-30
                       
san-francisco,CA-10 san-francisco,CA-20 san-francisco,CA-30
                       
washington,DC-10 washington,DC-20 washington,DC-30
                       
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