{"id":1965,"date":"2013-02-25T16:41:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2013-02-25T16:41:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:41:41","slug":"map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2013\/02\/25\/map.html","title":{"rendered":"Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intridea.github.com\/stately\/\">Stately<\/a> is a symbol font that lets you make maps of the United States by typing letters. I do not understand the magic behind it, nor did I make an effort to get under its hood or fully utilize its functionality, but I used Stately to make a map of the U.S. states I have visited as an adult.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s pretty cool that this map is all font.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"stately\" id=\"sorabji\">\n<li class=\"al\">A<\/li>\n<li class=\"ak\">B<\/li>\n<li class=\"ar\">C<\/li>\n<li class=\"az\">D<\/li>\n<li class=\"ca\">E<\/li>\n<li class=\"co\">F<\/li>\n<li class=\"ct\">G<\/li>\n<li class=\"de\">H<\/li>\n<li class=\"dc\">I<\/li>\n<li class=\"fl\">J<\/li>\n<li class=\"ga\">K<\/li>\n<li class=\"hi\">L<\/li>\n<li class=\"id\">M<\/li>\n<li class=\"il\">N<\/li>\n<li class=\"in\">O<\/li>\n<li class=\"ia\">P<\/li>\n<li class=\"ks\">Q<\/li>\n<li class=\"ky\">R<\/li>\n<li class=\"la\">S<\/li>\n<li class=\"me\">T<\/li>\n<li class=\"md\">U<\/li>\n<li class=\"ma\">V<\/li>\n<li class=\"mi\">W<\/li>\n<li class=\"mn\">X<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms\">Y<\/li>\n<li class=\"mo\">Z<\/li>\n<li class=\"mt\">a<\/li>\n<li class=\"ne\">b<\/li>\n<li class=\"nv\">c<\/li>\n<li class=\"nh\">d<\/li>\n<li class=\"nj\">e<\/li>\n<li class=\"nm\">f<\/li>\n<li class=\"ny\">g<\/li>\n<li class=\"nc\">h<\/li>\n<li class=\"nd\">i<\/li>\n<li class=\"oh\">j<\/li>\n<li class=\"ok\">k<\/li>\n<li class=\"or\">l<\/li>\n<li class=\"pa\">m<\/li>\n<li class=\"ri\">n<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc\">o<\/li>\n<li class=\"sd\">p<\/li>\n<li class=\"tn\">q<\/li>\n<li class=\"tx\">r<\/li>\n<li class=\"ut\">s<\/li>\n<li class=\"va\">t<\/li>\n<li class=\"vt\">u<\/li>\n<li class=\"wa\">v<\/li>\n<li class=\"wv\">w<\/li>\n<li class=\"wi\">x<\/li>\n<li class=\"wy\">y<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I do not include airport-only visits, border-straddling drive-by crossings, or places I was too young to remember now. As a child we traveled cross-country in a Winnebago but I don&#8217;t remember much detail of that today (however clear it might have been when I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/My_Life\/my_life_001.jpg.html\">My Life Story<\/a>). I omit New Hampshire because I simply do not remember being there enroute from Niagara Falls to Maine in 1990. Indiana is included because of a brief but memorable pass through Gary enroute to or from Illinois. I begrudgingly include Mississippi on account of a lengthy stop-over at a gas station there on my way to Texas in 1990, but I can&#8217;t really say I visited that state.<\/p>\n<p>Have I really never been to Kentucky? Michigan? I want to put Michigan on this map, and Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>The Stately font is a simple tool for illustating state-level data, suitable for introducing more detailed discussion of nation-wide information. I&#8217;ve been to Texas, for instance, but I&#8217;ve never been to <b>TEXAS<\/b>. I am told I would like Dallas, and they say Austin is worth a trip. I made it as far as the East Texas oil fields, in the Tyler and Kilgore area. I made it as far as <a href=\"http:\/\/sorabji.com\/2002\/road_trip\/wyoming\/\">Devils Tower and Beulah<\/a> but Wyoming is on the map anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/intridea.github.com\/stately\/\">Stately Font, by Ben Markowitz<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stately is a symbol font that lets you make maps of the United States by typing letters. I do not understand the magic behind it, nor did I make an effort to get under its hood or fully utilize its functionality, but I used Stately to make a map of the U.S. states I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-181-2","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saumAn-map","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}