Extending Manhattan street grid to everywhere on Earth

ExtendNY is a fun mapping exercise that extends Manhattan's street grid across the whole planet. It turns out our flat in London is around E10,874th Ave and 63,764th St.

ExtendNY (via JWZ)

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But it does extend across the whole planet, except for downtown and all the unimportant bits.
Gtmac

Does this mean that children that live in Manhattan get their Christmas gifts from an Uzbeki Santa Claus? The northernmost of the two Manhattan Poles is roughly 10 miles south of Shaytankuduk, Uzbekistan.
http://twitter.com/MTeson Marcelo Teson

Great, another way for New Yorkers to feel like they’re the center of the universe.
Keith Tyler

Cue four dozen puzzle geocaches based on this in three.. two..

Also, interesting that the “north pole” of this system is in rural Uzbekistan.
http://www.facebook.com/alasdair.lumsden Alasdair Lumsden

lol. Simple but loveable
semiotix

It turns out our flat in London is around E10,874th Ave and 63,764th St.

Ugh, the upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper upper east east east east east east east east east east side. Jeez, why not just move to Brooklyn and be done with it?
M Carlson

Hmmmm, I wonder if living near S 2218 St and 3,557 Avenue will finally get me some good Vietnamese food around here!?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

Which subway line runs to Beaverton, OR?
etmthree

shouldn’t the avenue numbers just go up as you go further west? why have “E. ####th Ave.”? Or if you really want to follow the lead of Aves. A,B, C, D, then you could keep going that way, but Ave. BBBRAE or whatever sounds lame.
http://twitter.com/scottyboyswa2 scottyboyswa2

Awesome!
deadlight01

I’ve always thought about extending the London Underground zones to cover the world. I just like the idea of having a zone 60 travel card to the States.