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I also used to do some bloggy things at Bostonography and the Axis Maps blog.
Skyline maps
City skylines are one of my favorite types of scenic view. When planning to visit a new city, or even when looking to take some photos of a familiar city, I like to do some online scouting of good spots for a skyline view. I can recall several years ago browsing Google Earth, panning around […]
Boston squared
Geometry riddle: When is a square not a square? Answer: When it’s in New England. Above (click for greater bigness) with the stupid title is a series of minimal street maps I traced to show the varied actual shapes of a selection of so-called “squares” in the central Boston area. Urban spaces come in all […]
Value-by-alpha maps
The latest issue of the The Cartographic Journal (of the British Cartographic Society) contains a paper written by Robert Roth, me, and Zachary Johnson entitled “Value-by-alpha Maps: An Alternative Technique to the Cartogram.” The value-by-alpha map is something I have touched on here several times over the past year and a half (as has Zach […]
Charts in the landscape
A couple of weeks ago Nathaniel Kelso tweeted a link to an interesting Bolivian land use pattern seen in Google Maps. First thing that popped into my nerd brain: polar area diagram! There are also some (possibly stacked) bar charts nearby. Over in the United States are some ordinary pie charts. Poor contrast among those […]
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