Subject
8 entries
Cartography
Bookmarks
Where Humans Reside in Canada
Amazing Maps tweet showing where humans actually reside in Canada — a geographic visualization demonstrating how the vast majority of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.
Voronoi Diagram of the World's Airports
Jason Davies' interactive Voronoi diagram of the world's airports — a D3.js visualization showing the nearest-airport region for every point on Earth. Technically elegant and a canonical example of geographic Voronoi tessellation.
Voronoi Airports — Tweet Share
Tweet by @lemonodor sharing Jason Davies' Voronoi diagram of world airports — the Twitter share that likely led to the bookmark of the original visualization.
Mapping a City's Pulse Using Foursquare and Yelp
Wired Design's piece on Moritz Stefaner's urban data visualizations using Foursquare and Yelp check-in data to map how neighborhoods pulse with activity at different times. An early example of using social location data as a proxy for urban life rhythms.
Map Stack by Stamen
Stamen Design's Map Stack tool, which let anyone create beautiful custom map styles by layering and compositing tile layers from different map providers. A 2013 milestone in making professional cartographic design accessible to non-cartographers.
History of San Francisco Place Names
Noah Veltman's interactive map of San Francisco street and place name origins — each name linked to its historical source (a Spanish land grant, a Gold Rush merchant, a city founder). A civic history layer overlaid on the present-day street grid.
Census Dotmap
Brandon Martin-Anderson's Census Dotmap places one dot per person from the 2010 US Census — a 308 million-dot map that makes population density and racial segregation viscerally visible through visual density alone, without choropleth distortion.
Stamen ♥ Here — Nokia Here 3D Map Tiles
Stamen Design's rendering of Nokia Here 3D map tiles — a collaboration that turned Nokia's lidar-based urban data into stunning isometric city visualizations. A showcase of what happens when cartographic data meets sophisticated design.