Hello. My name is Andy. I live in the Boston, Massachusetts area and I make maps. I spent many years building bespoke interactive maps with Axis Maps. These days I'm a cartographer for hire—get in touch if you need a map!
awoodruff@gmail.com
Hand drawn and antique maps with QGIS
Tips, tricks, and styles to download for those of us who can't draw.
White Mountains "National Park" map
A map of the White Mountains in the style of US National Parks visitor maps
Leventhal Map Center Designer In Residence
Maps related to "urban atlases" made during my time as Designer-in-Residence with the Leventhal Map and Education Center
A public health atlas of California offering deep exploration of numerous health indicators and/or custom scores, at many levels of geography.
I started this series of detailed city maps made solely with type. Buy a poster or mug or something, won't you?
An ongoing collection and blog of occasional cartographic looks at life and land in the Boston area.
What's really across the ocean when you look straight out? Straight lines on a round world don't always go where you might expect.
A web map tool for generating, styling, and downloading elevation contours for anywhere in the world.
Touchscreen browsers for an exhibition of historic maps at the Boston Public Library. A web version is still online, with some features broken.
Cynthia Brewer's work on color schemes for maps. I built the current version of the interactive tool, which is maintained by Axis Maps.
Eruptions, Earthquakes, & Emissions
An animated map (currently broken but not gone) of 250K earthquakes and volcanic eruptions since 1960, for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
Rotavirus vaccine visualization
Animated, interactive map of uptake in rotavirus vaccines in the United States, from millions of weekly data points. Map seems gone but you can still read about the project.
East India Company Visualization
Interactive maps and charts tell the history of commodities imported and exported by the East India Company.
More experiments in canvas-based terrain mapping, finding and animating hypothetical drainage.
An attempt at hachure maps went off the rails but ended up being kind of pretty.
Animated interactive map of the slave rebellion in Jamaica of 1760–1761.
More
Bus locations and speeds in the Boston area over time: live maps and 24 hour composites.
An interactive site explaining and highlighting natural gas infrastructure problems in Massachusetts.
A visualization of prices for 400 commodities across 245 different markets and some 1000 years of history.
Kind of broken, but you can get an idea of what this did: View trip patterns to and from stations in Boston's Hubway bicycle-sharing program based on a variety of filters.
Five map features I've done for the wonderful Ideas section of the Boston Sunday Globe.
Dominant hues of some 50,000 geotagged photos in the central Boston area during summer months.
A few infographics to pluck out some interesting bits of information from the Hubway bike-share data.
