Some people have asked how I’m going on my new big project – a simplified map of all U.S. Highways and Interstates on the one map. Well, here’s where I’m at currently.

Everything in the western half of the map is pretty much finished: the east coast needs to be revisited for consistency and there’s still a whole heap of work to do in the south east. I actually feel that I’ve left the hardest bit until last… which probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do, in retrospect. Although I now have a really good feel for how things should work in the grand scheme of things, so it’s actually getting easier as I go. The rules have been set, now I’m just applying them, like solving a logic puzzle.

I like how, even at this scale, the main “hub” cities can be seen clearly – Denver, Minneapolis/St Paul and Chicago have been the hardest to work out so far.