{"id":1051,"date":"2010-06-01T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/blog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2010-06-01T11:49:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T15:49:37","slug":"charts-in-the-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/charts-in-the-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Charts in the landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago <a href=\"http:\/\/kelsocartography.com\/blog\/\">Nathaniel Kelso<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kelsosCorner\/status\/14218215806\">tweeted<\/a> a link to an interesting Bolivian land use pattern seen in Google Maps. First thing that popped into my nerd brain: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pie_chart#Polar_area_pie_chart\">polar area diagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&#038;hq=&#038;ll=-16.760167,-62.780342&#038;spn=0.161082,0.246162&#038;t=k&#038;z=12\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/images\/gmaps_polararea.jpg\" alt=\"Polar area diagram in Google Maps aerial\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are also some (possibly stacked) bar charts nearby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&#038;hq=&#038;ll=-16.90295,-62.557182&#038;spn=0.08048,0.123081&#038;t=k&#038;z=13\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/images\/gmaps_barchart.jpg\" alt=\"Bar chart in Google Maps aerial\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over in the United States are some ordinary pie charts. Poor contrast among those colors, though!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;source=s_q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=40.642028,-98.821678&#038;sll=36.104336,68.857541&#038;sspn=0.543674,0.98465&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;t=k&#038;z=14\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/images\/gmaps_piechart.jpg\" alt=\"Pie charts in Google Maps aerial\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much of the rural U.S. is a big treemap, of course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;source=s_q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=40.340264,-88.448868&#038;sll=40.640501,-98.8217&#038;sspn=0.031913,0.061541&#038;g=40.642028,-98.821678&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=40.33503,-88.445435&#038;spn=0.256471,0.492325&#038;t=k&#038;z=11\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/images\/gmaps_treemap.jpg\" alt=\"Treemap in Google Maps aerial\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There must be a whole world of statistical graphics out there. Anybody have more examples?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[82,81,83],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awesome-maps","tag-aerial","tag-charts","tag-google-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}