Hey! So I'm from Bangalore. I thought long and hard about what it is about Bangalore that people would want to see, and the usual suspects came up with Kora, Indiranagar, Church street, etc. So I proceeded to sketch out the entirety of Bangalore.
The main outer ring road and the roads leading to Kora and IRN are in black and I thought I could use the rail tracks as as a reference. But this unfortunately isn't how anyone sees Bangalore. Also, I couldn't quite think about anything that I would want people to see within the various localities. So what was the point of the map? Zilch.
I decided to rethink what I would want the person to see. What part of Bangalore would I really want to show that would maybe change the notion that Bangalore is just good weather and traffic.
I looked up places that are of interest in the micro regions. MG Road, Church Street, St.Marks Road had the most potential with various entertainment centres within close proximity of each other. This notion also comes from my experiences and the way I choose to spend time with my friends in Bangalore. Also with multiple tech parks, it was hard to find places of interest that included things other than food and drinks.
I went ahead with mapping the centre of Bangalore. Sketched out the area as is to start with.
This afforded points of interests such as Blossoms and Higginbothams for book lovers and the Art Gallery, Museums, Vidhan Soudha for the history and monument lovers. And this being Bangalore, of course there's great food everywhere you look!
I tried to initially work with the basic shape. Tracing it out, and looking at the basic shape.
Tried some initial geometricisation without forcing it too much. Tried to do some primitive labelling. Red for food, yellow for drinks, purple for book lovers, and blue for places of interest.
More geometricisation followed and the I decided to help orient the people with respect to Church Street, St.Marks Road and MG Road by turning it slightly.
Hey! So I'm from Bangalore. I thought long and hard about what it is about Bangalore that people would want to see, and the usual suspects came up with Kora, Indiranagar, Church street, etc. So I proceeded to sketch out the entirety of Bangalore.
The main outer ring road and the roads leading to Kora and IRN are in black and I thought I could use the rail tracks as as a reference. But this unfortunately isn't how anyone sees Bangalore. Also, I couldn't quite think about anything that I would want people to see within the various localities. So what was the point of the map? Zilch.
I decided to rethink what I would want the person to see. What part of Bangalore would I really want to show that would maybe change the notion that Bangalore is just good weather and traffic.
I looked up places that are of interest in the micro regions. MG Road, Church Street, St.Marks Road had the most potential with various entertainment centres within close proximity of each other. This notion also comes from my experiences and the way I choose to spend time with my friends in Bangalore. Also with multiple tech parks, it was hard to find places of interest that included things other than food and drinks.
I went ahead with mapping the centre of Bangalore. Sketched out the area as is to start with.
This afforded points of interests such as Blossoms and Higginbothams for book lovers and the Art Gallery, Museums, Vidhan Soudha for the history and monument lovers. And this being Bangalore, of course there's great food everywhere you look!
I tried to initially work with the basic shape. Tracing it out, and looking at the basic shape.
Tried some initial geometricisation without forcing it too much. Tried to do some primitive labelling. Red for food, yellow for drinks, purple for book lovers, and blue for places of interest.
More geometricisation followed and the I decided to help orient the people with respect to Church Street, St.Marks Road and MG Road by turning it slightly.
More to come...