Andy Woodruff · Cartographer

Archive for March 2010

Shaded relief in AS3

25 March 2010 tagged as3, hawaii, shaded relief, tutorial with 7 comments

Did you know that basic relief shading is fairly simple to accomplish? I didn’t until a few days ago when I was flipping through the Slocum et al. cartography textbook, Thematic Cartography and Geographic Visualization, wherein a four-step process is presented. It sounded easy, so it was time for further adventures in raster-based cartography in [...]

Footprints

2 March 2010 tagged dayton, minimal maps, ohio with 10 comments

In spite of everything that maps can do, the ones I enjoy most are the simplest of all, those that reveal geography by stripping away all but some particular phenomenon and showing little or nothing more than where it exists. It’s the challenge of interpretation, or the self-satisfaction of recognizing something, or the imagining of [...]