The folks at American Sentinel University share with us that Geospatial technologies and beer share something powerful in common: innovation. American Sentinel University’s Dr. Stephen McElroy, GIS program chair, participated in Mountain Sun’s Stout Month to find out. He developed an interpolated map using GIS technology that depicts the Denver metropolitan area and shows an […]
How to Automatically Create Beautiful Cartographic Labels
The latest in the popular webinar series from Safe software will definitely help those of you struggling to make awesome maps… or maybe you already do but just want to add even more awesome sauce! On Wednesday, March 6th Safe will offer a livestream session titled . About the event – Learn about the MapTextLabeller, an […]
Friday Fun With Maps – America As Seen by A New Yorker
How about a little Friday fun with maps and a sweet, little gem I stumbled upon today… America as viewed by a New Yorker… I just love the “empty space caused by the stupid shape of Idaho”… LOL! Got any more awesome maps and examples or cartographic brilliance to share?? Ping me @gletham with your […]
Super Bowl Fun – NFL Fan Map (FandomMap) created from Facebook data
Super Bowl week is here so that means more cool data visualizations.. best BBQ, tail gate hot spots, and those awesome NFL fan maps! Here’s details of a cool fan map – I’m not sure I can agree that its the best fan map “ever”, however, given that its been created by mashing up data […]
Announcing Weekly US Census Data Visualizations
I’m a HUGE fan of data visualizations and I’m always glad to see when awesome companies are working hard to create beautiful, meaningful data visualisations to generate a buzz or tell a story – case in point, just check out what Jon and the gang at IDV have been doing in order to show off […]
Cartography Tip – Color Brewer (2.0) Expert Color Advice For Your Maps
Ever had trouble determining an appropriate color scheme for you mapping projects and products? Here is an extremely useful resource for selecting color schemes for your cartographic products. It’s a website called ColorBrewer 2.0, developed by Cynthia Brewer, professor of Geography at Penn Stat colorbrewer2.org. How it Works – Use the default test map and […]
World's Oldest Printed Maps at the Royal BC Museum
I had the pleasure of attending a very cool press event here in our little town of Victoria, B.C on Vancouver Island! Our awesome museum, The Royal B.C. Museum, has just scored a really cool exhibition (“Envisioning The World: The First Printed Maps, 1472-1700”) open to all visitors of the facility. On loan from Sonoma […]
Go Black and White With an Awesome Stamen Toner Map
Stamen Maps is fun, and awesome, there’s no question about that! Users can create beautiful maps to embed on their blog or website or simply produce a gorgeous image graphic for use on a poster, business card or ??? Over lunch I messed around for a few minutes with a feature you may not have […]
Create Your Own Watercolor Map With Stamen Tools
Everyone loves maps, particularly the GeoGeek… but there’s also some amazing map art out there and when you think of maps and art you have to also think about the amazing stuff that comes from Stamen… case in point, their watercolor maps (think cool, OSM basemap in a watercolor style). Check out the watercolor map […]
Mapping the Olympics – Olympic Medal Cartogram
Here’s another clever visualization (although I have to say that the color selection used here is pretty poor), this time from Esri using the fun cartographic display method known as a cartogram – FYI, A Gastner-Newman cartogram preserves the general appearance and adjacency of countries while modifying the shape so that the area is proportional […]