Erwin Raisz is among the most creative cartographers of the 20th century, known in particular for his maps of landforms. In 1931 Raisz outlined and illustrated the methods behind his landform maps, in an article in the Geographical Review (Vol. 21, No. 2, April 1931). Excerpts from the text and graphics in the article are [...]
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Map Symbols: Landforms & Terrain
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged Cartographic Design, Cartography, landform maps, Map Design, map symbols, maps, scenery on maps, terrain maps on April 3, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Making Maps with Sound
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, 13 Multimedia Mapping, tagged Map Design, Map Symbolization, Mapping with Sound, Multimedia Mapping, Sonification, Sound Maps on March 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Quite a few years ago I wrote an overview article on the use of sound for representing geographic data, including a series of sound variables for mapping I developed. The article was titled “Sound and Geographic Visualization” and was published as a chapter in the now out-of-print book Visualization in Modern Cartography (MacEachren & Taylor [...]
1911 Cartogram: “Apportionment Map”
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged cartograms, Cartographic Design, Map Design, map symbols, statistical maps, thematic maps on February 19, 2008 | 10 Comments »
A cartogram varies the size of geographic areas based on the data values associated with each area. Typical cartograms scale geographic areas to population, GNP, electoral votes, etc. This “apportionment map,” as creator William B. Bailey (Professor of Political Economy, Yale University) calls it, scales the size of U.S. states to the size of their [...]
Map Symbols: Showing Multivariate Data with Texture
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged Cartographic Design, Cartography, Edward Tufte, ethnicity maps, Jacques Bertin, Map Design, map symbols, maps, multivariate, texture, visual variables on February 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Map of New York City, Showing the Distribution of the Principal Nationalities by Sanitary Districts published in Harper’s Weekly (June 1, 1894) using 1890 U.S. Census data. This map looks great, revealing a substantial amount of information with its intense, juxtaposed patterns. The textures on the map show the relative amounts of different nationalities (qualitative [...]
A Weather Map of Billy’s Bed
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Map Cartoons, Map History, tagged Cartoons, maps, Weather Maps on January 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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Denis Wood: A Narrative Atlas of Boylan Heights
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Maps Made, tagged maps, narrative, place, psychogeography on January 10, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Denis Wood, co-author of Making Maps, has been working on an atlas of the Boylan Heights neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina since the mid 1970s. The atlas, which has never been published in its entirety, is called Dancing and Singing: A Narrative Atlas of Boylan Heights. Inspired by Bill Bunge’s radical cartography in the 1960s [...]
Custom Map Symbols in Google Maps
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, 13 Multimedia Mapping on October 18, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Google’s My Maps allows the easy creation of pseudo map mash-ups, where you can map your own data as points, lines, and area symbols with Google Maps as the background. I wrote about My Maps – basic how-to and some of its limits – in another blog post, Allelopathic Maps & Google’s “My Maps.” One [...]
Animated Maps in Google Earth
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 04 Map-Making Tools, 13 Multimedia Mapping on July 31, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Google Earth can display geographic data with a time component, and thus show animated maps. Animated mapping has garnered much attention among cartographers in the last decade. I created a few Google Earth animated choropleth (literally, area-filling) maps of population change in Ohio. One map shows total population by county from 1900 to 2006. The [...]
Map Police Review: the MLA Language Map of the US
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 04 Map-Making Tools, 08 Generalization & Classification, 12 Finishing Your Map, Map Police on July 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The proliferation of mapping sites on the web provides ample fodder for critique by the map police (cartographic insiders). I usually feel a bit bad whining about the cartographic limitations of such sites. Cartographers have a history of obsessing with rules and such obsession has, arguably, limited creativity and undermined innovations. Bad cop. However, not [...]
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