during a recent two-week stint in london mainly focused on art classes, i did manage to venture out to one of the record stores there: Smallfish in the Shoreditch area.   the directions begin from my host's flat in Hackney, lead me past the Kebab shop down the street, through some quaint residential areas and back to a busier street with a lot of electronics stores and takeout-food places toward the bus stop, where i mulled about for 10 minutes waiting for it.   directly behind the bus stop was a seafood store that i was inclined to take a few photos of, due to a fixation with aquatic life that has stemmed from my childhood (and not consciously because i was going to a record store called Smallfish) .... i have to say that MD, my mapmaker, gave great directions, all the way to the fact that the store was covered in scaffolding; that description was really the only way i had a chance at recognising it.

the style of depicting the roads as two parallel lines like an = sign is seen a few other places throughout the site; the boom box map in south chicago / hammond indiana and cheese factory map in lena, il for example.  this makes it slightly less symbolic and more pictorial, like an areal photograph, with the stoplights there in a sort-of perpendicular arrangement. good job, MD!