aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

My little town’s still there

Traveling, I missed NPR’s report on the state of Georgia taking hundreds of small towns off its official maps. Xeni at Boing Boing picked it up today:

Roosterville, Hemp, and Cloudland are also among the nearly 500 towns removed from the state’s official map, nuked because mapmakers say there isn’t enough room to fit ‘em all. Creative typography could help—mapmaker Rand McNally won’t be killing these communities off, because their map designers use varying font types and sizes. It’s also nice to know this problem need not exist with digital maps

Here’s the AP story. I’m in PA this week, NYC next week. I’m confident that my town, the antebellum capital, will still be on the maps when I get home.