No one knows what Maspeth is

July 30, 2017 11:28 PM

Hoodmaps: Crowdsourced visualizations of neighborhoods
posted by laptolain (21 comments total)

I meant to include this in the body of the description but the creator of this site made a very detailed blog post about its origin and the process of making it:

https://levels.io/hoodmaps/
posted by laptolain at 11:29 PM on July 30, 2017

Nice, tried it, did not work...
posted by Laotic at 12:12 AM on July 31, 2017

Did work actually, just cannot see the colours while painting. Nice work in progress. But I would have thought that to build a sellable community, a project needs logins. Maybe that is coming.
posted by Laotic at 1:03 AM on July 31, 2017

I accidentally scribbled all over the map and don't know how to fix it. Also, it seems like my neighborhoods don't fall into the categories available.
posted by Literaryhero at 1:12 AM on July 31, 2017

Barcelona, Spain, this very morning, in an area marked as "drunk English & German":

picture 1, picture 2

Not sure about the nationality, but the drunk thing is spot on.

Also, where I live (oldest quarters in downtown), it says "avoid this area" and "no locals, just tourists and pickpockets", I guess the brush is too broad in some aspects.
posted by samelborp at 3:09 AM on July 31, 2017 [1 favorite]

samelborp, it tells me "Sorry, this content isn't available at the moment"
posted by pracowity at 4:09 AM on July 31, 2017

Yeah, my city mostly just had a bunch of mean-spirited stuff about homelessness, some various racist stuff, and the word "Unicorns" written over the university, so I guess it's as good as the last couple folks who've been in there.
posted by ITheCosmos at 5:06 AM on July 31, 2017

My suburb in Brisbane: Hookers a nd drug addicts.

I don't know if I'm more hurt that someone would say that, or that it's absolutely true.

But don't blame me. In 2012, around 50,000 people head to Fortitude Valley's clubs, pubs and restaurants each weekend night. Around 30 venues are licensed to trade until 5:00 am. If there's a festival, make that 100,000.

When you throw a giant party every weekend, of course you're going to attract some shady stuff. I'm not so hurt, more full of pity that that's all some internet rando thinks this suburb is about. I love it here, it's home. There are no noise restrictions. Every year we close the streets and put stages on them and have a dance party. There's a plaque on my street noting that this is the first place The Bee-Gees played. We have the Big Gay Day, we invented the Zombie March, our streets are marked in five languages. Our suburb is so diverse, fucking armed Border Security hang out here. Do you realise how far away Brisbane is from any border?

I could go on. 'Hookers and drug addicts', they don't know the valley. Whoever said West End is more beards than shoes is totally right though.
posted by adept256 at 5:08 AM on July 31, 2017

Apparently I live in a solid "Normies" area but the block I live on fades into "Hipsters" just south of my house.

I think that means my family is the odd one out? It's my fault, really. I have a beard and enjoy biking and craft beer, BUT I don't brew my OWN beer, my bikes have gears (gasp!), and my beard is old enough to vote. I'm hopelessly normal I guess.
posted by caution live frogs at 7:27 AM on July 31, 2017

My quiet residential neighborhood in Reykjavík is marked as being overrun by tourists. It also has really odd neighborhoods marked as "hipster" or "rich". I have a feeling that most people marking this map aren't actually from Reykjavík. If I understood the developer's blogpost correctly, he makes no attempt to weight input, so locals are treated equally with people who've never been to the place.
posted by Kattullus at 7:30 AM on July 31, 2017

None of this is accurate and seems overrun with weird troll-y behavior.
posted by windbox at 7:56 AM on July 31, 2017

It reminds of the judgemental maps thing that was popular a few years ago and also tended to be racist.
posted by dinty_moore at 8:35 AM on July 31, 2017

My neighborhood was labeled as Stepford Wives which...yeah.
posted by msbutah at 8:39 AM on July 31, 2017

Pittsburgh's is fairly accurate, but the only text on the map is Peak Pittsburgh. It just says "LETS GO PENS" (with no punctuation)
posted by soren_lorensen at 8:48 AM on July 31, 2017

How do I make this terrible video go away?
posted by maryr at 9:24 AM on July 31, 2017

In Seattle, there are two large blobs of hipsters floating in Lake Washington.
posted by skyscraper at 9:50 AM on July 31, 2017

My neighborhood in Berlin is labeled "Revenge for Mallorca". Go ahead and pillage the whole place, but leave me alone, thanks.
posted by quoquo at 10:15 AM on July 31, 2017

I know what Maspeth is. Lived there for better part of two years. Good pizza, easy access to LIE, not so much to subway. Old Italians and young Fuxianese and probably now some hipsters priced out of barely-less fashionable Queens hoods who can make the subway work with a little help from Uber (like everywhere else south of the subway and north of Brooklyn).
posted by MattD at 10:30 AM on July 31, 2017

I drew on my town this morning from home, and went back while at work (different computer & network) and when I click 'crowd' I don't see my work from this morning :'(
posted by AzraelBrown at 11:35 AM on July 31, 2017

MattD I was actually born and raised in maspeth I just found it funny because most people I run into really have no idea whjat or where maspeth is.
posted by laptolain at 5:06 PM on July 31, 2017

I checked Oakland, saw which areas had been marked "rich" and "hipster", snorted, and closed the window.
posted by Lexica at 5:40 PM on August 1, 2017