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Nice sunset yesterday; tried an HDR thing on it. (i.e., lots of Photoshop involved)

Here's a crazy wide panorama from the Fells last weekend. Notice how the Liberty Mutual crane looks like it's dealing with the jail in East Cambridge!

http://hubwaydatachallenge.org/ Lots of new Hubway data released here for a contest. It looks like data for almost every ride ever up through some recent date (552,073 of them). You can't identify unique users, as has been mentioned in this thread before, but there's some good stuff in here for...

^ Moving toward tangent territory here, but someone—I don't know if it's one of you guys from these boards—once posted on my blog an anecdote that I quite enjoyed:

In Cambridge, for what it's worth, you supposedly can't lock a bike to a parking meter: http://www2.cambridgema.gov/~cdd/et/bike/bike_faq.html#parkwhere On a similar note, they've somewhat recently added little notices to handicap parking signs forbidding bikes locked to those signs.

Here's one from Hull last month.

Noticed today that the new Memorial Drive pedestrian overpass at Magazine Street is finally complete and open. (Not sure since when.) And the traffic light is gone, with little evidence that it ever was there. Seems it was only meant to be temporary pedestrian crossing? Not much of a...

Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown Just a couple of quick pictures from Sunday. That whole front corner of the ground-level facade was standing (and propped up or something right at the corner, it seemed) despite everything around it being reduced to rubble, but for all I know that's...

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion I like the way this building stands over a couple of the Bay Village streets, although I guess it blocks the Hancock in the first one. (Photoshoppy lighting, sorry — it wasn't the best time of day from this direction!) And one of these for...

Here's a map (PDF) of the planned Hubway station locations in Cambridge: http://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/Transportation/gettingaroundcambridge/bybike/~/media/Files/CDD/Transportation/Bike/BikeShareSites11x17.ashx. Looks like there are 22 of them on that map, so they must not have figured out a...

Since there was something about weekend vs weekday, here's the number of trips over 72 hours in October (Sunday, Monday holiday, Tuesday) from data they gave out for a visualization contest a while back. MBTA bus GPS reports in the same period are below that in yellow, not that it answers any of...

Cambridge is getting what, 24 stations? I'm optimistic that 19 of those won't be right next to the 5 subway stations. Sure would be nice to see a single drop of updated information on where and when this will happen, though! Is there anything?

Several neighborhoods have distinct sections within, sure. These maps in particular are only attempting to look at the main top-level divisions (and are more concerned with internal borders than knowing where the city ends), but it would be very interesting to ask about the smaller...

This has been an interesting point so far in some of the blog comments. Majority opinion probably shouldn't hold if the point is to come up with definitive neighborhood boundaries, but that's kind of impossible anyway and a crowdsourced map has other worth. The idea of "fallacy" is essentially...

Right, this. Although we are a bit interested in people not knowing where neighborhoods are (for example thinking of East Boston as only a small part of East Boston in reality), this thing was a little more about potential overlaps and such, which of course doesn't come into play in Charlestown...

Van, thanks for posting the link - that's my little project over there. (Well, along with another guy, but I'm the one who made all the maps this time!) As for disagreement versus lack of knowledge: I think there's some of both, but the data were collected in such a way that there's no way to...

Not to get carried away on a density tangent, but the idea of 13k/sq mi as "firmly suburban" is a intriguing, so just for reference a couple of block-level maps I threw together earlier this year... Density greater than the Boston average (~13k/sq mi)...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos But what's wrong with this "free" access? It's still being paid for, by Massport.

Wow, two minutes! Didn't realize that city lights were low enough to withstand that length of exposure. Beautiful photo, just like all the ones you post here!

Meh, just another piece of an already ugly neighborhood from there down toward Central, as has been noted already. At least it's a different color ugly. And it's taller than its one-story predecessor (except that bit on the left end), which I guess is something. Doesn't bother me much.