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Category Archives: cartography
Medical geography – AIDsVU visualizing HIV by Zip / Census Tract
Like many good geographers, I’m a huge fan of medical geography and the practice of analyzing spatial patterns and trends in order to better understand the makeup and geography associated with health issues. An interesting project announced this week comes … Continue reading
The Geography (and Visualization) of the Basketball Court
Here’s an interesting story from the Slate and a very cool use of a geographic visualization that looks at the spatial patterns and distribution of the 3 basketball shot – thanks to Brad Shannon of FOCO for the tip off … Continue reading
Posted in cartography
Creativity Not Just For Cartographers: Geo Analysts Need It Too
What do GIS analysis and creativity have in common? Quite a lot, actually. While it may seem that geo analytical work is solely a left-brained affair and thus the opposite of creativity, there are, in fact, many ways in which … Continue reading
Posted in cartography
Yes, Even CNN Gets Their Cartography Wrong! Sorry London
You gotta admit, we all love to see CNN mess up… its particularly funny though when their fumble is is recorded digitally and shared with the World via Twitter! That’s pretty much what happened when keep eye (and quick with … Continue reading
Posted in cartography
Vote for Your Fave GISCI Map
The GISCI recently held a map poster competition for members, receiving more than 50 submissions. The team of expert judges has selected their Top 12 submissions and now the competition is open to the public for selection of your favorite … Continue reading
Posted in cartography
Oscar Movie Trivia On A Map
Oh man, I just love maps, and I really dig it when I see the mainstream business world take advantage of a maps and mapping technology to tell their story. Case in point, Venere Travel has used an attractive map … Continue reading
Posted in cartography, maps
World Earthquake Intensity Map
A map, which provides a general representation of the risks of earthquakes on humanity using records from the past 4,000 years, has been produced by a geographer from the University of Sheffield. The new World Earthquake Intensity Map has been … Continue reading
Posted in cartography, environment
Interesting… New book explores The Map as Art
I really dig abstract representations and interpretations that take advantage of maps, Geo technology and imagery – here’s an interesting new book that touches on this subject. From the National Post… Harmon’s latest book, The Map as Art, explores how … Continue reading
Posted in cartography, maps
Award winning map shows Scheduled Service on Small Airlines in Canada
From the latest news update from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Geography, and interesting, award winning map from a student. The map is a fine example of excellence in cartography and is very interesting at the same time – … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, cartography, maps
Chicago Festival of maps continues
If the Chicago festival of maps is half as cool as the interactive website then this event has to be awesome! The Christian Science Monitor has an excellent report from Chicago and provides some great insight into the event and … Continue reading
Posted in cartography
Western Canada Map Proposal To redefine Provincial boundary – enter Saskatoba
After the beating Saskatchewan laid down on Manitoba in the Grey Cup a new propasal is under consideration to redraw the National Map of Canada, most affecting Manitoba and Saskatchewan… see below for the proposed boundary changes! Please visit www.GISuser.com … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, cartography
CaGIS 35th Annual Map Design Competition
Just got back and noticed this interesting announcement out of Canada… the CaGIS 35th Annual Map Design Competition for professionals and students in the United States and Canada! The purpose of the competition is to promote interest in map design … Continue reading
Posted in cartography
