My maps

Nerd alert

Busy busy busy. Big things in the works. Also presently homeless. Meanwhile, just to break the silence, here is a map of all the US counties I have been to. Relevant points: I’ve got 1,105 out of 3,141. I’m thinking about picking up three more in Pennsylvania tomorrow. It counts if I was on the […]

Composite election maps

Since election season is nearly upon us again, I was reminded of a brief distraction of mine in 2006, namely the above map. It’s a composite map of Democrat vs. Republican election results in four races in Ohio, ostensibly giving an idea of how “Republican” or “Democrat” an area is. The process was, quite simply, […]

Typographic maps

Recently I was asked if I could whip up a small flier announcing the UW-Madison Department of Geography’s traditional party thrown on one night during the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (held last month in Boston). I came up with the image at right: a map made entirely of type. It was a hit […]