{"id":1950,"date":"2014-01-20T08:17:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2017-01-03T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:07:30","slug":"woodcut-map-of-golden-gate-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/20\/woodcut-map-of-golden-gate-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodcut Map of Golden Gate Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a custom-made map of Golden Gate Park created by the people at Woodcut Maps<\/a>. I met Gabe Smedresman<\/a> nearly two years ago at some SF meetup group. He had just launched his new project, woodcutmaps.com<\/a>, and once I heard about it I was determined to get something made. I had just bought a house on the north side of Golden Gate Park, and I wanted something personal to commemorate our new home.<\/p>\n

The map I had made focuses on the park, but includes streets to the north and south to provide context.<\/p>\n

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The Woodcut Maps folks made a few customizations to the design for me. The entire map was rotated a slight bit to get the streets running east-west to be perfectly horizontal. The actual streets in San Francisco run at an ever so slight diagonal, but to give the map better symmetry I wanted things to line up perfectly. They also added a small marker for my home on the north side of the park.<\/p>\n

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I had originally intended this to be the top of a coffee table. It measures 34″ by 18″, and I believe for a very brief period right when I had it made it was the largest map Woodcut Maps had created (but that record was quickly broken). But instead of mounting it as a tabletop, my wife decided it was so gorgeous that it deserved to be front and center in our living room. So we mounted it on a wood frame and put it above our fireplace.<\/p>\n

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I was amazed at how manual the process was to construct these maps. The pieces are all laser cut, but then they are assembled by hand. Here’s a shot of the assembly process. Some of the pieces are really tiny, and it takes a lot of patience working with tweezers to get it all done. <\/p>\n

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Since Woodcut Maps is a local San Francisco startup I was able to meet up with them in person to see the process. They even saved a few parts of the construction for me to complete. Here’s a few shots of me putting the last bits of Stow Lake together.<\/p>\n

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One last detail shot to show the walking paths around the De Young museum and the Academy of Sciences. I love this park!<\/p>\n

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If you want to support a cool local San Francisco business, go check out what they’re doing at Woodcut Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a custom-made map of Golden Gate Park created by the people at Woodcut Maps. I met Gabe Smedresman nearly two years ago at some SF meetup group. He had just launched his new project, woodcutmaps.com, and once I heard about it I was determined to get something made. I had just bought a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[83,84],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maps","tag-lasercutting","tag-wood"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t