Evan with Open Street Map versus the New York Times

Unhappy with the NYT's map, I spiced up Open Street Map. Now OSM is running circles around NYT.

Recently a bunch of a kids died because of supremely incompetent government — recently made overly great again, and a horribly incompetent summer camp. To illustrate the camp, this is what the New York Times put out

This is so vague, I wanted to do better. I used Open Street Map and some quick cross referencing of the Camp Mystic brochures and other news data and I came up with this,

Viola. Now you can see every building. The yellow outline is the flats which is where the campers were. You can see my digitized contributions on Open Street Maps. But here is an image generate from it without any satellite imagery.

Log in if you want to see the total camp site digitized (or most of it anyway).

Now when the news mentions Bumble Inn you can quickly find it. This is the cabin which had all of 13 of the girls which inhabited it swept away in flood waters. You can read more about that in the coverage by the New York Post.

And as always, proprietary maps are for kids that can’t handle data. =)

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