Category Archives: cartography

Creative Cartography Meets Music in The Song Map

Posted on May 9, 2013 by glenn

Oh yes, I love art… I also love music too, heck, who doesn’t right? Well, I know you GeoGeeks and music lovers will really dig this one as we stumble onto yet another amazing cartographic product that quite simply will … Continue reading →

Posted in awesome maps, cartography, music |

Map of Stout Month and Stout Beer Consumption at Vine Street Pub in Denver CO

Posted on March 13, 2013 by glenn

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in cartography, colorado |

How to Automatically Create Beautiful Cartographic Labels

Posted on March 1, 2013 by glenn

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in cartography, events, webinar |

Friday Fun With Maps – America As Seen by A New Yorker

Posted on February 8, 2013 by glenn

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in cartography, funny, maps, new york |

Super Bowl Fun – NFL Fan Map (FandomMap) created from Facebook data

Posted on January 29, 2013 by glenn

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in cartography, dataviz, facebook, maps, sports, super bowl |

Announcing Weekly US Census Data Visualizations

Posted on January 16, 2013 by glenn

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in cartography, census, howto, map |

Cartography Tip – Color Brewer (2.0) Expert Color Advice For Your Maps

Posted on November 26, 2012 by glenn

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in cartography, Tips |

World’s Oldest Printed Maps at the Royal BC Museum

Posted on October 4, 2012 by glenn

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in cartography, maps |

Go Black and White With an Awesome Stamen Toner Map

Posted on September 10, 2012 by glenn

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in business, cartography |

Create Your Own Watercolor Map With Stamen Tools

Posted on August 15, 2012 by glenn

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in cartography |

Mapping the Olympics – Olympic Medal Cartogram

Posted on August 8, 2012 by glenn

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in cartography, ESRI, sports | Tagged , , |

500 Year Old Map Could be America’s birth certificate

Posted on July 5, 2012 by glenn

Wow cool, and you may have thought that America came into existence in 1776! Apparently America may have existed in some form as long as 500 years ago, this according to a recently discovered map that clearly shows a region … Continue reading →

Posted in cartography |