What work is left on a map?


Near Shibuya, they're finishing up some construction on a subway system that
has been going on for years. It seems they're at the stage of finishing up
some road work above where they had been making subway.

In the middle of Meiji Dori, where some of this construction remains, they had
this sign:

![chizuninokorishigoto](https://i.stack.imgur.com/muXV5.jpg)

I understand all the words, and I think I understand the grammar, but I have
no idea what it's trying to say. My translation is roughly:

> Work that remains on the map.

What map? And how can the work they are doing remain on it? Why is this
something you say on a sign for everyone to see?

What does this sign mean?




The generally available geographical map. Google Maps. Local maps. And so on.

The slogan says their work remains on the map -- it is work on a scale that is
recorded by cartographers and becomes part of the landscape. Important work
having (future) historical and wide-area significance.

Possibly the English nuance of "remain" might throw you here -- it seems to
imply that it was on a map before and it will remain being on a map.

The actual message, I feel, is closer to this: after the work is finished in
real life, it is not forgotten, but remains (残るs), leaves its mark, on the
map.




This is the tagline of
[[大]{たい}[成]{せい}[建]{けん}[設]{せつ}](http://www.taisei.co.jp/) (see also [cute
CM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OKoCl-3E0Vw)), a
construction company and presumably the one carrying out the work there.

The meaning is as you say, "Work that remains on the map". This probably makes
more sense now.

(As Flaw says, indicating a company philosophy of building stuff that makes a
mark, and building it to last)

