Value-by-alpha maps
The latest issue of the The Cartographic Journal (of the British Cartographic Society) contains a paper written by Robert Roth, me, and Zachary Johnson entitled “Value-by-alpha Maps: An Alternative Technique to the Cartogram.” The value-by-alpha map is something I have touched on here several times over the past year and a half (as has Zach [...]
Norumbega, New England’s lost city of riches and Vikings
“Here, at modern Watertown, was the ancient CITY OF NORUMBEGA.”
While preparing data for another spare time local interest map (forthcoming), I ran across a tiny bit of information (“Horsford’s Norse exploration theory”) that ended up captivating me for the weekend. It is the story of Norumbega, at various points a regional name applied to New [...]
Footprints
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 [...]
Obligatory Valentine’s Day map
Even while under the knife as we do some final development work, indiemapper sends its love.
Remember, the sweetest sentiment today and forever is:
The “Pacific Islands” are actually just a myth
So when you map them, go ahead and omit most of the Pacific. It’s empty anyway.
The same goes for Terra Australis, but it is customary to retain an “Antarctica” label as a joke.
Seen at Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio.
The drinking society with a mapping problem
I’ve recently returned from Sacramento after attending the 2009 conference of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), and I wish to briefly plug the organization here in case either of my readers is not already familiar with it.
If you work with maps, you should join NACIS and go to its meetings. Consider these facts:
NACIS [...]
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