Mapping a whole darn year
In the past I have mentioned here an ongoing project to trace my every movement on a map, using memory and mouse-clicking rather than technology that costs money. Well, the advent of 2010 marks a full calendar year of doing this and a good moment to show some results.
Obviously this is not a novel concept [...]
You can’t get there from here
Apparently in Maine they have a saying, “you can’t get there from here” (spoken in a Maine accent), said when giving directions as an observation of the impossibility of traveling a direct route between certain places. It seems to have something to do with lakes and the organization of roads in the vast rural areas [...]
Accidental map projections II
By accidental I of course mean deliberate. Same deal as before. Tweak a map projection formula a bit, and the results can be interesting.
Made with indiemapper. We’ll probably return the map projection code to normal before it’s released.
Flickr as a paintbrush
What color is Harvard?
Don’t say something like “white,” smartass. But don’t say “crimson” just yet, either.
This being a blog about maps, I of course mean Harvard not as a school but as a geographic entity. What color is the landscape, physical and cultural? When people look around at whatever interests them, what colors are they [...]
Madbridge, Wiscachusetts and Portland, Mainegon
For the next effort from the cartographic sandbox in which I’ve been playing lately, let’s try something ridiculous again. Your typical map, particularly the modern online mashup, exists to show various data that share a common geography. For a change of pace, what about different geographies that share common data?
To claim to have actually thought [...]
The United States carto-alphabet
It seemed like time for another gin-soaked Thursday night map. A theme that’s been floating in my mind lately is mapping the names of things. My intention is to find gobs of data and look for geographic patterns in the names of streets, cities, etc. So here’s a simple start.
I grabbed a shapefile with some [...]
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