Man v. Nature - The front line
(via raonurcouch)
I wish I knew where this was; the type is too small to read.
“Herein lies the problem with Yahoo! Maps: the designers focused too much on “decorating” and not enough on “communicating”. For example, it seems that making the highways look attractive was a far greater priority than simply making New York City’s city label legible. Or look at the city “dots” used on Yahoo! Maps: the focus was clearly on making pretty-looking city “dots”, instead of making city “dots” that actually communicate information, such as city population.”
An excellent comparison. This puts into words what most people only feel about the three providers’ map tiles. I could tell you I far prefer Google’s style, but I don’t know that I could articulate exactly why as well as the author.
Colouring Maps - The Beauty of Maps (BBC documentary)
I read something about this program a few days ago and I seriously need to check it out.
Calendria, a place where units of time become sovereignties.
“The Kingdom of March, with the Equinoctial Estuary on its western coast, is situated on a separate land mass to the east of Calendria’s main continent. The Republic of Junistan is in the southeast, an archipelago among which are the Circadian Islands. “
Also see the documented process the designer used to make this gorgeous map.
/via strangemaps
A NYT visualization of most-queued films by US zip code. A cool example of what can be done with 100% free data. The queue data is accessible through Netflix’s API and zip code boundaries from the US Census.
Try to figure out what data each map displays. I got 3 out of 22 correct (they’re not easy).
![The UK’s first road map.
“This extraordinary map, dating from 1675, details The Road From LONDON to the LANDS END Comencing at the Standard in Cornhill and Extending to Senan in Cornwall. It was made by IOHN OGILBY Esq[ui]r[e] his Ma[jes]ties Cosmographer and covers 308 miles and 3 furlongs (almost 500 km).”
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The UK’s first road map.
“This extraordinary map, dating from 1675, details The Road From LONDON to the LANDS END Comencing at the Standard in Cornhill and Extending to Senan in Cornwall. It was made by IOHN OGILBY Esq[ui]r[e] his Ma[jes]ties Cosmographer and covers 308 miles and 3 furlongs (almost 500 km).”
Cartagen is a framework for adding rich styles to map data, to produce better cartographics.
You utilize the GSS (geographic style sheet) spec to style map elements from OpenStreetMap data.
