Yeah, Manhattan is a snap. 1) It's (mostly) a grid. 2) Once you realize it's angled about 40deg from true N/S, you compensate for sun position pretty automatically. 3) It has HUGE FREAKING LANDMARKS (Central Park, anyone?) that are kind of hard to miss. 4) It's an island - you have a discrete boundary.
It took me about 3 or 4 trips down there to feel comfy with mid-Central-Park south to just north of Wall St (which is most of the S end of Manhattan), and that's the area that's distinctly non-grid-like. Anywhere north of well, Houston, is a grid with only a couple of exceptions, like Broadway. South of there, it's just a couple of grids aligned with the waterfronts, and the only odd areas are where they run into one another, kind of like downtown Seattle's grid hitting up against Denny.
But people who *live there* can't figure this out? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??
That's okay, I can't figure out people who get lost in Seattle either, for many of the same reasons listed above.
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Date: 2007-08-08 05:41 pm (UTC)It took me about 3 or 4 trips down there to feel comfy with mid-Central-Park south to just north of Wall St (which is most of the S end of Manhattan), and that's the area that's distinctly non-grid-like. Anywhere north of well, Houston, is a grid with only a couple of exceptions, like Broadway. South of there, it's just a couple of grids aligned with the waterfronts, and the only odd areas are where they run into one another, kind of like downtown Seattle's grid hitting up against Denny.
But people who *live there* can't figure this out? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??
That's okay, I can't figure out people who get lost in Seattle either, for many of the same reasons listed above.