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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pipe cleaner subway map
Speaking of metro maps, and in the continued absence of any interesting work to share, permit me this moment to mention a map I recently constructed as a gift: a map of the Boston subway system made of pipe cleaners, to be hung from a ceiling or wall.
(Pardon all the obvious wire holding it [...]
Current diversions: metro maps and self maps
Two ongoing things are keeping me entertained in my spare time these days.
AUTOMATED METRO MAP GENERATION
Metro or subway maps are cool. They’re simple, effective topological diagrams showing you how to get from Point A to Point B in the system. And, I might add, they make great symbols of the cities whose metro [...]
This is why I’m allowed to call myself a cartographer
Two reasons:
I once attempted to draw a map of Wisconsin by hand, for no particular reason.
I’m writing a stupid blog post about it.
It’s freehand, of course employing the help of a grid that was also overlaid on a map used for reference. You know it’s hand-drawn because of the requisite old-timey coastal effect:
I’d probably [...]
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