Andy Woodruff · Cartographer

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GeoCommons Maker! Awesome or super awesome?

1 October 2008 tagged axis maps, map projects, online maps with 3 comments

After a summer of long hours and occasional vagarancy, I’m happy to report that GeoCommons Maker! has launched today.  FortiusOne’s CEO Sean Gorman nicely sums up what Maker (I’m going to go ahead and drop the exclamation point henceforth) is all about: Data that was once the sole providence of GIS professionals can now be [...]

Typographic maps

25 May 2008 tagged typography with 5 comments

Recently I was asked if I could whip up a small flier announcing the UW-Madison Department of Geography’s traditional party thrown on one night during the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (held last month in Boston). I came up with the image at right: a map made entirely of type. It was a hit [...]