CLT Uptown 1.6
Device: iOS iPhone
Category: Reference
Price: $1.99, Version: 1.5 -> 1.6 (iTunes)
Description:A beautifully detailed map of Charlotte Uptown.
As featured in:
Society of Professional Journalist, Charlotte Chapter, Blog at WordPress.com, August 8, 2012.
THE MAP:
Buildings are categorized according to main use and function. The layout of Charlotte’s Overstreet Mall–hidden from outside view as it’s located inside the connecting buildings–includes entrances, pathways within the buildings, locations of steps and escalators and sky bridge connections. Main attractions, hotels, schools, places of worship, government buildings, residential buildings and homes , are all easily differentiated with contrasting colors. Zooming to larger scales reveals the details of block numbers, direction of traffic flow and parking entrance locations.
The map includes cultural and entertainment venues such as the NC Music Factory, EpiCentre, The Levine Center for the Arts with the Knight Theater and Mint Museum Uptown and The Blumenthal.
The map is detailed to the extent that even the sectional seat numbers for Carolina Panther games are delineated.
View the campuses of Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) and Johnson & Wales University (JWU). Zoom in to fill the device screen and you have complete campus maps.
Sculptures, memorials and fountains dot Uptown. The sculptures of “Independence Square” let you know that you found the heart and center of Charlotte Uptown; find them on The Map.
Transportation features include the free fare Gold Rush shuttle routes and it’s 12-minute-frequency daytime stops. Flying to Charlotte and going Uptown? Leaving Uptown to Charlotte Douglas International Airport? It’s an easy 30-minute ride on the new hybrid electric bus-The Sprinter. The Map provides route and general schedule information. The efficient LYNX Blue Line light rail, with four station stops in Uptown, is included and an inset map shows the total 9.6-mile route and general schedule information.
ET CETERA
CLT Uptown is The Map, and it represents the area where ground truthing is enjoyed by biking, riding the shuttle and rapid transit, strolling the greenways, delighting in the plethora of great places to eat (influenced by the culinary skills of students and graduates of JWU and CPCC) and feasting on the quality cultural and entertainment events. Often the question comes to mind: What is that over there? Soon after, it probably finds its way on The Map.
Charlotte native Jeff Simpson of Simpson Maps, former lecturer and cartographer in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina @ Charlotte.
What's New
Optimized for iOS 7 with minor UI improvements and new APP icon design.
Out-of-date content deleted and new content added. Base map information such as entrances to parking areas and buildings, details within parks, the rendering of buildings and their associated plazas, etc., continue to be a focus of attention.
Map additions and changes:
Changed–Doubletree Hotel to DoubleTree by Hilton @ 895 W Trade St
Changed–7th Street Station Bldg to 7th Street Station Parking Deck between E 7th St and E 6th St
Changed–Press Wine/Food to Threes Wine Bar @ 333 W Tryon St
Changed–Charlotte School of Law relocated to Charlotte Plaza Building on S College St
Changed–Hyatt Place Charlotte Downtown from “under construction” to completed on S Caldwell St
Changed–Removed the Metropolitan Sales building at Metropolitan Av and S Kings Dr
Changed–CPCC’s Elizabeth Classroom Building from “under construction” to completed and open to students as of January 2014.
Changed–Charlotte Plaza Uptown Hotel @ 201 S McDowell to Fairfield Inn & Suites (flag change occurs February 13 2014)
Added–Rendering of the new BB&T Ballpark (“Play ball!” starting April 2014)
Added–Queen City Q (QCQ) to the retail street level of the 7th Street Parking Deck on E 6th St
Added–Connolly’s on E. 5th St
Added–The name “Carolina Theatre Park” to the temporary park in front of the old
CarolinaTheatre @ 230 N Tryon St
Added–New apartment construction across from Target in the Midtown area
Added–New hotel construction site on 4th Street side of BB&T Ballpark
Added–Charlotte Cigar Club @ 105 E Morehead St
Added–Vivace Restaurant @1100 Metropolitan
Added–Midtown Park bordering Pearl Park Wy and S Kings Dr
Added–Public art “Site Unseen” located in Midtown Park
CLT Uptown