solarbird | Feb. 7th, 2025

While putting up the latest Experimental Megamap 1.5.0, I found the old printed Megamap 1.0.0, and thought I’d do a side by side of the first and latest experimental versions. It was so short! And so sparse! “Unmarked but commonly used” didn’t even exist as a category yet. So there’s much more data now.

On the left, MEGAMAP 1.0.0; on the right, 1.5.0 Experimental Newcastle. The right map is close to a third again taller, and slightly wider as well. The original stopped in the north at the Snohomish County line and in the south at the bottom of the 2 Line map; the current goes over a mile into Snohomish County and down to Renton, at the south end of Lake Washington.

(1.0.0 wasn’t officially called experimental, but it was – at least as a printed poster. I learned from it, particularly things like “how to stitch together a poster this big.”)

I realise this is probably the sort of comparison best saved for an anniversary post, but given where we are and the state we’re in, who even knows where we’ll be or be headed by May, right? So let’s do what we can while we can, and to hell with anything else.

And who knows. By May, maybe I’ll have that next mile of Snohomish County added in. It’d be nice, wouldn’t it?

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