Andy Woodruff · Cartographer | Blog
I also used to do some bloggy things at Bostonography and the Axis Maps blog.
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!
The music of geography: Ohio is a piano
Last month, as I was driving through Ohio to collect my final three counties in the state, it dawned on me: There are 88 counties in this state. There are 88 keys on a piano. I don’t know anything about music, but holy crap, I have to make a map based on this coincidence. And […]
indieprojector
At Axis Maps, in our march toward indiemapper, we have made indieprojector, a tool for creating projected maps of your geographic data and exporting them to vector graphics for further design work. Part useful tool and part demo of indiemapper functionality, indieprojector fulfills one of the cartographer’s most basic requirements. In my experience trying to […]
Accidental map projections
Oops, this isn’t what an azimuthal equidistant map projection is supposed to look like. I’ve been working (occasionally fighting) with map projections a lot recently, pumping latitude and longitude coordinates through equations that mathemagically shape the world. Occasionally a small error in a projection equation results in an incorrect but fascinating map. So why not […]
The year to date
Just for kicks, here’s everywhere I have been in my local area since the first of the year. Yeah, I know every nerd with a GPS receiver records their tracks around town, but I outnerd them by breaking it down by mode of transportation (and by doing it without GPS). All movements, all modes of […]
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