Archive for August 2009

Madbridge, Wiscachusetts and Portland, Mainegon

For the next effort from the cartographic sandbox in which I’ve been playing lately, let’s try something ridiculous again. Your typical map, particularly the modern online mashup, exists to show various data that share a common geography. For a change of pace, what about different geographies that share common data? To claim to have actually […]

The United States carto-alphabet

It seemed like time for another gin-soaked Thursday night map. A theme that’s been floating in my mind lately is mapping the names of things. My intention is to find gobs of data and look for geographic patterns in the names of streets, cities, etc. So here’s a simple start. I grabbed a shapefile with […]

Indiemapper’s warm glowing warming glow

This is just a nudge in the direction of the indiemapper blog, where you can find out what the above image is all about. Even if you don’t care about the data we’re mapping there, I hope you’ll agree that our trusty Mark Harrower has designed a pretty nice look for it!

Magazine cover subway map awesome

Still being enamored of subway maps, and either out of convenience or some sort of local bias that of the Boston system in particular (see for instance my pipe cleaner map or the “Tea Stop” menu), I nearly wet myself when I saw this magazine cover on newsstands. The cover for Boston magazine’s annual Best […]