Aman Bhargava Bangalore India Data Visualization Designer & Developer aman@diagramchasing.fun

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Nov 24, 2025 • Photo
A map showing up much I travelled around Bangalore, a nice closed loop. Fields of grass on the way to Kengeri. Some roads are so narrow that we needed to stop and coordinate with other drivers. But even in such far reaches of the city, there is a bus service. Lots of lakes on the way!

Last week for no particular reason, I took a 200 kilometer journey around Bangalore using only BMTC buses. It was quite a lot of fun. I had not planned the trip in any way, I just knew that I just wanted to go around the periphery. I went from from Jayanagar to Attibele, from there to Hoskote, Hoskote to Yelahanka where I stopped for some rest and lunch. From Yelli, I decided to go to the town of Nelamangala which I had not planned to because it was much farther out. From there, I went a long way around to Kengeri, passing the big old banyan tree of Dodda Alada Mara, which is apparently more than 400 years old (and certainly looks like it). Since I was riding terminal to terminal, I always got my favorite right-side corner last seat.

I had taken the AC bus pass so this cost me a total of Rs. 160, along with some tolls that I had to pay, but I didn’t use AC buses a lot. The entire trip took around 10 hours. There was no particular reason for doing this, I think it’s part of my propaganda to use buses for leisure more than just for necessity. I am excited about doing this more and seeing more of the city, I think the peripheries are really beautiful (the west is a lot more beautiful than the east).

I might just do a competition with a few other bus nerds to see what is the largest distance we can hit in a day. The current record is 200 kilometers.

#trip#bangalore#buses
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Sep 2, 2025 • Bookmark

🔖 Bookmarked:

Bengaluru's Public Spaces Repository

https://www.blrpublicspace-revival.in/repository

Over the last three years, as a part of the Sustainable Mobility Network, Sensing Local, along with other partners, developed the Urban Revamp Design Challenge (https://sensinglocal.wixsite.com/urbanrevamp), which invited design proposals from Architects to re-imagine under-utilised public spaces in Bengaluru, supported by active citizen groups in the neighbourhood. Two successive competitions resulted in 70 design proposals for 4 sites.

Great map of public spaces in Bangalore by Sensing Local. Categorized under labels such as food streets, places under metro lines and flyovers, walker streets and so on, I think it would be neat to have a Slow Routes type routing map that optimizes for pedestrian friendly features on OSM and takes you through some of these POIs. At a high-level I understand that this is an orienteering problem.

h/t Vonter for sharing.

#walking#bangalore#maps
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Aug 30, 2025 • Photo
Two large backlit maps of Bangalore Close-up of an 1880 map of Bangalore showing the original village boundaries and Yelahanka (spelt Yelavanka) up north. Sherlock Holmes' London

Short day out with Aditya. We visited the BLR Reads exhibition at the MOD Design Foundation office in Church Street, mostly with the intention of introducing him to this new space. To quote him looking out the 6th floor window onto the street corner, a view of this street that we rarely see, he said, “Man, this feels like a city.”

The space is interesting, they have a lot of old maps of the city which are worth seeing physically (there is, of course, https://blryesterday.com by my friend Vonter). The library is nice, it had books beyond those about Bangalore. I was pleasantly surprised to find ‘Sherlock Holmes’ London’ on one of the shelves. The membership is relatively inexpensive and I might consider it for a few months.

Capped the day with some Slay Coffee which reminds me of Yelli.

#bangalore#maps#sherlock holmes#church street
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