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Originally Posted by Jets4Life
Esquire, please tell me how you did this, I would be anxious to do the same for a upcoming blog.
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All I did was grab a screenshot of a Google Map and drew lines on it using an elite, highly sophisticated graphics software package (MS Paint) to illustrate what I consider to be the urban areas of Winnipeg (inside the red line), and the "semi-urban" or transitional areas, which have characteristics of urban and suburban areas (inside the blue line).
I just went by my knowledge of the various neighbourhoods and what they're like... it was a subjective take on my part, but that said I think most people would agree that the centre of Winnipeg is urban and the outlying fringes are suburban... the disagreements would largely centre on where one ends and the other begins. To some people, West Kildonan would be purely suburban (big lots, single family homes) whereas to others it might have some urban qualities (grid streets, walkable neighbourhoods and commercial strips, etc.).
I recognize that I left Transcona out, but that's because Transcona is a bit of an oddity in the Winnipeg context... it was essentially a full-fledged small town that was completely independent from Winnipeg in a way that the other pre-unicity municipalities weren't. But at the same time it wasn't what I'd describe as fully urban either... more like a small town on the fringes of Winnipeg's orbit. One could certainly argue that it has (had?) urban qualities, though.