Topic
cartography
- Map of Notable People
One of the neatest data visualization projects I've seen lately is Topi Tjukanov's "Map of Notable People." It takes a database of birthplaces of notable people and maps them to cities on a global interactive map. Sur…
- Equal Earth Physical Map
Tom Patterson has released a new version of his Equal Earth Map, this time as a physical topographic map style. Beautiful stuff.
- A Live Experiment in Disassembling a Map
This was a cool idea from cartographer Daniel Huffman. He live-streamed a walkthrough taking apart one of his map projects in Illustrator to see how he puts it all together. I love this idea and am excited to see him…
- Topography, Bathymetry, Toponymy
In this latest cartography project I'm working on, I'm rediscovering the tedium of searching for appropriate data. I'll grant that it's amazing how much high quality data is produced and freely distributed, but given…
- Weekend Reading: Largest Islands, Linework, and Airline Mapping
This week is some reading, but some simple admiring. I wanted to highlight the work of two cartographers I follow that is fantastic. We live in a great world that people can still make a living producing such work. 🏝…
- Apple's New Map
Another great cartographic analysis from Justin O'Beirne, this time on the latest updates to Apple Maps. Their new data and styling covers mostly northern California, and has some gorgeous computer-extracted natural l…
- Recent Links: Waymo’s Cars, ARCore, and Fantasy Maps
📱 Google Announces ARCore This is Google’s answer to Apple’s recently announced ARKit coming in iOS 11. After years of buzz with little substance, it’s great to see AR coming around to fruition with real commercial p…
- Weekly Links: Cartography's Future, Interactive Maps, and Building Moats
🚙 Cartography in the Age of Autonomous Vehicles An excellent, extremely detailed analysis from Justin O'Bierne on how maps and cartography might evolve if autonomous vehicles negate our need for turn-by-turn navigati…
- Marine Mapping in Tampa Bay
At the State of the Map US conference in Portland, I talked about a pet project of mine: mapping marine data in OpenStreetMap to build beautiful, open data-based nautical charts. The OpenSeaMap project is a sub-projec…
- Symbola
If you've ever done much involving symbol sets in mapping (especially web mapping), you know about the nightmare of managing 700 separate PNG files, with different, duplicate versions for slightly different size varia…
- Dymaxion
A dymaxion projection — a sphere projected on a flattened polyhedron.
- The Value of Local Knowledge
The mapping industry has historically underappreciated the human and sociocultural aspects of geography. This talk from the first Ignite Tampa Bay series focused on understanding the value of localized knowledge, and…