A Complete Map To Springfield

neelm writes "If you even needed to know the names of the roads Homer Simpson takes to work, you can find out at Guide to Springfield, USA. On the site you'll find a complete map and guide to all springfield location. The map was put together mostly by watching (and rewatching) Simpson's episodes. The map is even listed in Harvard Map Collection!"

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alright!

[bsadler]

best...link...EVER!

My favorite store in the mall...

[Danger Will 42]

I love this place! "Donner's Party Supplies" We had one here, but the owner ate all the profits!

Been done

[stratjakt]

There was a cdrom years ago called "virtual springfield" in which you could wander the streets and see the sites.

Simpson's Hit'n'Run has a pretty realistic layout of the town as well, from Squidport to Moes, in fact this map looks like it was lifted more from that game than from 'watching episodes'.

Re:Been done

[troc]

Be fun to chuck this design into Sim City and see if it worked ............

Troc

Re:Been done

[Anonymous Coward]

Time to build a Quake level...

(fires RPG)

"D'oh!!"

Too much time

[elwell642]

Some people have way too much time on their hands.

And I'm glad they do!

First----

[Anonymous Coward]

First p-----D'OH!

Ironically

[Nuclear Elephant]

This looks a lot like the MIT Campus.

Re:Ironically

[gblues]

Actually, my first thought was "Wow, this looks a lot like Portland."

Which makes sense, since Matt Groening is from Portland.

Nathan

Re:Ironically

[Issue9mm]

Well, according to Matt Groening it kind of does.

link

Oh, and yes, we're talking about Portland, Oregon.

-9mm-

this is obviously crap

[Altus]

everyone knows that west springfield is 3 times the size of texas!

Re:this is obviously crap

[Vihai]

....and they're missing the monorail! Where is the monorail??

Stiff?

[finker]

"The Lucky Stiff Funeral Home"

That's just begging for a comment...

Re:Stiff?

[SocietyoftheFist]

I find Morningwood Penitentiary funnier. Sadly, it took me a few viewings of that episode to catch that joke.

if the livingroom is different in every episode

[meatbridge]

then i doubt the entire town is going to be layed out the same in every episode.

Re:if the livingroom is different in every episode

[elwell642]

From the website: Due to the many inconsistencies among episodes, the map will never be completely accurate.

SNPP Parking Lot

[bolind]

Isn't the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant parking lot next door neighbours to The Simpson House?

Re:SNPP Parking Lot

[Gruneun]

Then the Stonecutter's secret traffic tunnel wouldn't have done him much good. Duh.

Re:SNPP Parking Lot

[ericspinder]

I am not sure about the show order, but that must have been before they moved the town to escape the garbage.

Re:SNPP Parking Lot

[Joseff]

the map's home page say's "

"While the placement of most locations is arbitrary, many are placed according to where they appear in relationship to each other in specific episodes of The Simpsons. In some cases 'one-time references' to specific locations have been disregarded in favor of others more often repeated. Due to the many inconsistencies among episodes, the map will never be completely accurate."

I think they've done a great job considering it IS an imaginary place.

Re:SNPP Parking Lot

[British]

We only saw that in one episode. Homer was driving to work, and had to get through a huge traffic jam. Eventually Homer gets there and Bart at home, which is neighboring the power plant parking lot says hi to Homer. Funny joke, but I think that was just a one off.

I wonder if there's also a web page describing every episode their cars have been wrecked. The earliest I can think of is when the station wagon(not the pink sedan with the crumpled fender) gets eaten by Truckasaurus.

Yea But

[the_mad_poster]

What state is it in?

This is the fourth goddamn attempt to post this around that stupid 20 second rule. Thank you CmdrTaco. I almost had it last time, but I had only waited a MERE 19 seconds! THE HORROR!

Re:Yea But

[alman]

Judging from Homer I'd have to say Apathy :)

Re:Yea But

[lukewarmfusion]

That's a great answer to a stupid question.

Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart) visited my university a while back and someone asked about the state... her answer was something to the effect of, "Springfield is supposed to be a city that could be in any state in the country. If you look at the episodes, and track the cluest, you will see that they've pretty much all been ruled out. There is no secret answer." </paraphrase>

Re:Yea But

[Wyatt Earp]

Oregon.

Springfield is suposed to be Portland Oregon.
http://www.portlandtribune.com/simpsons/i ndex.htm

While there is a Springfield Oregon, down the road a 100 miles by Eugene, Simpson's Springfield is Portland, Shelbyville could be Gresham or Vancouver.

Re:Yea But

[chainringdotnet]

While The Simpson's try to make the show as friendly to the whole country as possible (and they enjoy keeping people guessing...) Matt Groening got his start writing Life is hell for the Oregonian newspaper. He went to The evergreen State College in Olympia. A bunch of the Streets in Northwest Portland's Alphabet district share names with Characters (Lovejoy, Flanders etc), The founder of Eugene (shares the freeway with Springfield) is named Eugene Skinner, There's a power plant Just north of the Oregon Border...There's a super Cheesy Theme park in between Springfield and Salem. None of these things really come up in the comparisons I read, mostly because those trying to find Springfield are too busy studying physical geography instead of the mental imagery floating around in the creator's head. Granted, to say that the Northwest is the soul influence not only carries that type of Statehood Narcissism that is usually reserved for SEC football college towns, it'd be downright stupid. He got inspirations all over the place. But to tell me that Groening didn't get the lion share of his ideas from the Northwest would be looking over what I think is the obvious. Springfield sits in Oregon.

detail detail..

[aixou]

The detail of that map is just frightening. I wouldn't be surprised if the shows animators use it as a reference now. Then again, maybe they have their own map, in which case, the dudes that reverse engineered it really wasted their friggin time.

Open WiFi hotspot

[anandpur]

Anybody know about any WiFi hotspot in springfield

but I thought...

[H0NGK0NGPH00EY]

This is definitely cool, but I thought that one of the running jokes of the series was that the town always seems to suddenly have new major geological features that don't fit with ones they've shown before. It seems like making a map of the place kinda misses the point.

But, then again, someone must have made a map of it for The Simpsons Hit & Run, right? Speaking of which, does this map match the one used in that game? Hmm...

Re:but I thought...

[ideatrack]

Exactly, like the 'mystery door' which is what writers call the door in the Simpsons' house which is either a door to the basement (see the episode with Burns' son) or the storage closet (chili cook off).

Accuracy across episodes?

[enkafan]

While this is fun, if they did watch all the episodes multiple times they had to have noticed that something as common as the simpon's home address has had 6 different values, although they have mostly been on Evergreen Terrace.

Still a fun diversion on a rainy thursday

Re:Accuracy across episodes?

[argStyopa]

RTFA of course

The Simpson House is located in Pressboard Estates, a development of 3 and 4 bedroom, working class houses adjacent to Springfield's central business district. The house number is sometimes given as 59, 94, 723, or 1094, but in most often seen as 742 Evergreen Terrace. The Simpsons have lived at this address since 1983.

The Simpsons house

[TintinX]

I also found this link the other day.
Somebody has actually built a full scale replica of The Simpsons' house.

Impressive

[Rudeboy777]

Very detailed, but I don't see "The only bridge out of town" (recall the meteor episode)

But havn't the writers...

[lxt]

...actually admitted that they gave up on the idea of a map years ago - it's on one of the DVD commentarys, when they talk about how at the start of the show they used to be really picky about the layout of the house and Springfield, but realised if they just gave up on that idea they could have some much funnier jokes (I believe Homer's house is at one point right next to the Nuclear Power Plant carpack, at another its just next to Moes etc. etc.).

Poster sized

[(trb001)]

I would love this as a poster in my home office/cube at work. Anyone know any resources for printing out the digital version WELL? I use Ofoto.com for most of my digital camera pics, but they only go up to 20x30...I'd really like full blown poster size. I've sent an email to Jerry asking permission, assuming he says "Go for it", does anyone know a good place online to go?

--trb

Re:Poster sized

[Ztras]

Or, for those with more money than time:

Kinko's will gladly print it for IIRC $10.00 per sqaure foot. You can get it mounted on foam board and laminated for an extra few $$ as well. 24 hour turnaround at the most.

you can drive through it

[supergwiz]

THere is a console game from EA (xbox, ps2) that lets you drive the entire Springfield. The game goals is identical to Crazy Taxi. Gameplay is so-so, The value of the game is in the creative details around town that a fan of the show can appreciate.

Bart's factory

[__aajqwr7439]

I don't see it. Wasn't it across the street from Moe's?

The rats didn't seem to have to to travel very far to get there...

It's filthy, and it's mine!

xox,
Dead Nancy

Can't GeoCache in Springfield

[FerretFrottage]

Where are the GPS cooridinates?

Re:That's nothing

[MoonBuggy]

Yeah, but Harry Potter's only funny if you read it in the manner discovered on bash.org

This reminds me

[jayhawk88]

Of some of the old classic threads in alt.tv.simpsons, like "Where is Springfield?" and "What's the layout of the Simpson house?"

In those two cases, it turns out that when you take in all the data from all shows, Springfield can literally be nowhere in the US, and the Simpson's house defies the laws of physics. This map is cool and all, but I suspect that a true map of Springfield is impossible to draw. Heck, off the top of my head I can mention the "Meteorite coming to crush Springfield) episode, where it's mentioned that Springfield has only one bridge going out of town.

Mirrored map

[antdude]

It looks like the place is slashdotted. Here's a mirror? copy I found on Google's image search.

Re:Consistancy?

[Minna Kirai]

Were the writers of The Simpsons always consistant?

Considering that the entire town has been lifted and relocated, it could've had multiple completely different layouts at times.

And considering that even TIME isn't consistent there (Bart has been 13 for 15 straight years)... you couldn't expect geography to make sense either.

Quite an acheivement...

[CrazyTalk]

But with anything Springfield, there are too many insconsistencies to make a definitive map. For example, in one episode Homer walks home from Moes and is exhausted, then the "Camera" pulls back and we see that Moes is just a few doors down from his house. So, Moes should be on Evergreen Terrace, but on the map it isn't. Same for the long-running joke over which State Springfield is located in (if you took all the facts from eposide together, the result is an impossiblity). Still, it looks like they did a great job with what they had to work with!

Re:I couldn't find the burlesque house!

[SomeGuyFromCA]

The Maison Derriere is just east of the south end of the river.

Alternatively, go one block west of the Simpson house and then straight south.

Re:That's nothing

[bryanp]

You absolute bastard. I'll never be able to read Harry Potter again without thinking of this. Damn web page warped my fragile little mind. And my friends will never speak to me again once I subject them to it. Not that that will stop me. Shared pain is lessened pain and all that.

Let me just get it out of the way...

[Mr. Bad Example]

I for one welcome our new cartographer overlords.

Re:Where is the monorail?

[tbmaddux]

The monorail is shown in light gray dashed lines. Easiest to spot just to the right of the Springfield Bridge where I-95 crosses the water... look for the words MONO and RAIL on either side of the street.

I'm still looking for the Escalator to Nowhere, the 50 ft. Magnifying Glass, and the burned ruins of the Popsicle Stick Skyscraper.

Re:A Complete Guide To Getting Slashdotted

[pbhenson]

yes, thank you /. for making what would have been a calm mundane morning so exciting. When I woke up this morning I had no idea I would be recompiling Apache to increase the hardcoded static limit on maximum server processes and tuning our load balancer to have a shorter failure retry, all while fending off upper management who wanted to simply make the map site unavailable. We are not really scaled (or funded, for anyone familiar with the California State budget)to handle this kind of load, but after some tuning I think we are doing pretty well.

I have gotten after Jerry to convert his images to optimized PNG, so maybe next time the servers won't smoke quite as much...

--
Paul B. Henson
http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/
Operati ng Systems and Network Analyst
California State Polytechnic University
Pomona CA 91768

Re:Where is the monorail?

[Tharian]

Since you found that, have you found the KFP?

That was the Kentucky Fried Panda that was "Finger Ling-Ling good!"

Maybe it wouldn't be on the map since it got crushed by the log that used to be Springfield's oldest living tree?

Or maybe even finding the Angel Hills Mall. The one that was built after the scam of finding what looked to be angel fossils...

Hmm... what was that other mall built by the billionaire that bragged about climbing up Niagara Falls and knocking out a boxer? Where would it be located?

Re:Grid? not in Atlanta

[MrBud]

42.