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At Axis Maps, in our march toward indiemapper, we have made indieprojector, a tool for creating projected maps of your geographic data and exporting them to vector graphics for further design work. Part useful tool and part demo of indiemapper functionality, indieprojector fulfills one of the cartographer’s most basic requirements. In my experience trying to [...]
Over at Axis Maps we’ve recently put up a new site to announce a project that will be keeping us busy this spring. It’s called indiemapper. Indiemapper grew out of a spare-time project that my esteemed colleague Zachary Forest Johnson and I began a little over a year ago in between beer breaks at the [...]
We’re working on putting together a few election maps and and graphs at Axis Maps, and above is one that we’ve come up with so far. It’s a standard red-blue map indicating the winner of each county in the lower 48 states, where the transparency indicates the population of a county. The many counties with [...]
Attention cartographers: Cindy Brewer has allowed us at Axis Maps the privilege of making some updates to the fantastic ColorBrewer tool. We’d like suggestions from the community on what to change, what to keep the same, etc. Drop us a line over here: ColorBrewer 2.0
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 some [...]
I wish to call attention to the fact that my humble little company Axis Maps has launched a new blog. This blog, I must stress, does not exist merely to promote ourselves, but rather to talk about practical cartography. So please stay tuned to it while our Ph.D. holders Mark Harrower and Ben Sheesley drop [...]
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