Andy Woodruff  · Cartographer | Blog

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Maps make the best logos

24 December 2008 tagged Boston, interesting maps, logos with Comments Off on Maps make the best logos

I don’t technically have any authority on the subject of logo design, but that won’t stop me from declaring that maps always—always—are the correct choice for logo designs. So while I attempt to cook up some more interesting projects to post here over the holidays, I leave you with this, my favorite logo lately: That’s […]

GeoCommons Maker! Awesome or super awesome?

1 October 2008 tagged axis maps, map projects, online maps with 3 comments

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 […]

Squeezing San Francisco

3 September 2008 tagged interesting maps, san francisco, scale with 1 comment

Here’s an interesting map I picked up in San Francisco last year. (Forgive the poor-ish quality. I laid it on the floor and took a photo of it.) It took a while to realize this, having referred mostly to the downtown area in which I was staying and because the shape doesn’t look too unusual […]