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I also used to do some bloggy things at Bostonography and the Axis Maps blog.
Web Cartography, or Putting Things on Top of Other Things
Here is an inconsequential post of what’s on my mind at this moment. Remember red dot fever? That epidemic was back in the early days of web mapping APIs, when most of what was possible (and what was popular) was to throw a bunch of points on top of Google Maps and the like. Now […]
Geodancing
The other day Axis Mapper Dave was working with styled maps in the Google Maps API and made a brief styling mistake—all the small roads disappeared but their one-way arrows remained. It was actually kind of an interesting perspective on the street system, a stripped-down view of engineered traffic patterns or perhaps a measure of […]
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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