Warning: do not attempt to use this map as a map
A small globe spotted for sale at Target the other day:
Apparently we’re allowed to just put warning labels on our maps instead of trying to make them, you know, accurate. Either that or this sphere has particularly sharp corners and is not safe for a classroom full of children.
Remember, bad maps kill! Cartographers, always protect [...]
Don’t make me search!
(Update, June 19: How ’bout that? Google has just added a feature that is almost exactly what I was wishing for in this post. Read about it at the Google LatLong blog. At least I got this post out just before that was added, so I don’t look entirely like a fool.)
There’s a lot of [...]
Sparkmaps?
I’m catching up on some of the reading I meant to do a couple of years ago, when I was a geography/cartography student, beginning with the original intersection of urban geography, planning, and mental maps: Kevin Lynch’s The Image of the City (1960). The subject of the book aside, something cool here is what’s [...]
I hate your favorite election map
I am not by nature an angry person—in fact my friends at times find me irritatingly even-tempered—nor am I known to truly hate anything, but provocative titles have their place, right?
We’ve once again arrived at that special time of (every fourth) year when the internet abounds with maps, charts, and other graphics attempting to depict [...]
Mapping tag clouds
Over on the Axis Maps blog I’ve written up a side project I began several months ago but never got very far on: mapping the geography of presidential campaign speeches. It’s still an interesting idea, but my colleagues and I didn’t have the time to fully develop it, so you’ll have to settle for [...]
Map panning and zooming methods
Following last week’s post on losing context with interactive maps, I wanted to consider the different methods of navigating an interactive map (i.e., panning and zooming) and how they might affect that issue, and while I’m at it look at other aspects of these methods, too.
A great place to start is the 2005 paper by [...]
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