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Cartographic Summit 2016

12 February 2016 with 4 comments

In the official Cartographic Summit photo above, I’m the robot on the right edge who doesn’t know how to stand like a normal human. I’ve just returned from this unusual event, which was part traditional conference and part unconference, with people in attendance only by invitation. I didn’t know what to expect, but figured a […]

A guide to not being a sidewalk jerk

1 February 2016 with 6 comments

Hello friends. It has become apparent that you are all terrible at being pedestrians. I feel confident saying that despite some good eggs and battle-tested walkers such as New Yorkers, most Americans are obliviously selfish, inconsiderate users of sidewalk space. It’s true even in a city like mine, where a large chunk of people commute […]

Where to hate daylight saving time and where to love it

16 November 2015 with 83 comments

Update: a newer version of this little project helps you make your complaints about daylight saving time—whether they’re for or against it—with clearer messages about whether keeping DST, abolishing it, or making it permanent would be best for your daylight preferences. Give it a whirl over at Observable. tl;dr version: just scroll down and play […]

How to make a value-by-alpha map

25 February 2015 with 4 comments

Last week, Josh Stevens published a superb how-to guide for making bivariate choropleth maps, something not directly supported in most GIS applications. Go read it. I’ll wait here. Josh included a mention of value-by-alpha maps, a pet technique of some colleagues and me. It boils down to a specific type of bivariate choropleth map, in […]

A blizzard of purple

27 January 2015 tagged blizzard, colors, snow with 1 comment

The blizzard of doom was impending. The French Toast Alert siren was blaring. But I wasn’t home in Boston to witness the fun. So, what else to do but look at all the snowfall prediction maps? Meteorology is a bastion of the rainbow color scheme. The bigger the storm, the more maps. And the more […]

A blog?

25 April 2008 with Comments Off on A blog?

A blog.  Weird. “Thoughts and adventures in maps, code, and anything in between,” reads the sub-heading up at the top of this page.  That means I’ll be posting about almost anything that’s somehow related to interactive cartography.  I’m a geographer.  I turned into a cartographer.  Somehow I became Flash guy.  Maps, code, and anything in […]