My maps

Indiemapper’s warm glowing warming glow

This is just a nudge in the direction of the indiemapper blog, where you can find out what the above image is all about. Even if you don’t care about the data we’re mapping there, I hope you’ll agree that our trusty Mark Harrower has designed a pretty nice look for it!

The music of geography: Ohio is a piano

Last month, as I was driving through Ohio to collect my final three counties in the state, it dawned on me: There are 88 counties in this state. There are 88 keys on a piano. I don’t know anything about music, but holy crap, I have to make a map based on this coincidence.
And so [...]

indieprojector

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 [...]

Accidental map projections

Oops, this isn’t what an azimuthal equidistant map projection is supposed to look like.

I’ve been working (occasionally fighting) with map projections a lot recently, pumping latitude and longitude coordinates through equations that mathemagically shape the world. Occasionally a small error in a projection equation results in an incorrect but fascinating map. So why [...]

The year to date

Just for kicks, here’s everywhere I have been in my local area since the first of the year. Yeah, I know every nerd with a GPS receiver records their tracks around town, but I outnerd them by breaking it down by mode of transportation (and by doing it without GPS).
All movements, all modes of [...]

indiemapper

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 [...]