Posts Tagged ‘axis maps’

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 […]

The election at night

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 […]

What should ColorBrewer look like in 2008?

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

Blog-on-blog action: Axis Maps blog

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 […]

GeoCommons Maker! Awesome or super awesome?

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 […]