Posts Tagged ‘map projects’

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 […]

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 […]

Mapping tag clouds

Over on the Axis Maps blog I’ve written up a side project I began several months ago but never got very far on: mapping the geography of presidential campaign speeches. It’s still an interesting idea, but my colleagues and I didn’t have the time to fully develop it, so you’ll have to settle for some […]

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 […]