Interactive Tourist Map of Urumqi
We at The New Dominion strive to make useful information about Xinjiang available to those who need it, especially in a fun, visual form. That includes tourists who, when faced with the Urumchi section of a typical mass-market travel guide, get a rather unappealing preconception of the city. So, we are unvailing this, an interactive on-line tourist’s map of Urumchi!
Most of the placemarks on this map are bars and restaurants — I don’t, personally, know much about Urumchi’s hotels, and I haven’t got the personal capital to investigate. There should be more hotels marked in the future. I have also endeavored to mark points of interest to both tourists and residents, though several sites from recent history are still missing. Currently, of city services, only the main police station is marked, but I will get down to adding a couple of reliable hospitals in the near future. Several main traffic arteries are also marked off using yellow lines; if you click on them, you will get the pinyin for the Chinese name of the road. Markets, including night markets, are blue squares, as are some other pleasant places to sit around outside. As always, I welcome reader input on the content of this map! If there is anything that should be added, please don’t hesitate to mention.
I have used GoogleDitu, by the way, because GoogleMaps and GoogleEarth just don’t have Chinese roads, yet. If you try to port this map to either, it won’t line up properly with the satellite data. Oh, and I’m sorry this is so small — we’re working on it.
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Nice! You’d better add the train station, the two main bus stations, and the airport too. But, still… sweet!
Good job folks. It looks great. Really makes me want to go there even more. how are you planning on getting it more widely distributed?
Are the prisons mentioned in this map?
Great job! In terms of getting this to line up with a satellite map, you might want to try some sort of georeferencing software, like ArcGIS’s ArcMap program. Of course, I’m not sure how interactive the map will be after that, and thoseprograms are expensive… I’ll look into this.
My first time here. Great post and, more importantly, great site. I will definitely be back.
Very good. Passed by today. Find an error. “Jinghua Shiji” should be “Shiji Jinhua”(Local people usually call it like this).
Doesn’t display correctly in Firefox, at least for me anyway. nice work though.
The Fubar patio is open btw