geospatial matters
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 8:48AM 
William Bowen has produced some new lovely high res aerial flyovers (some with what he describes as "choppy and unscripted" - but very informative - narration). At left, one of his great images of the Delta from the California Atlas of Panoramic Images.
Three new silent movies focusing on the High Sierra:
Examples with narration:
Monday, August 24, 2009 at 3:47PM 
Mapdiva, LLC has just resleased its map illustration software OrteliusTM for Mac computers. It's only 30Mb to download a free 31-day trial version, and for now they're offering an 'Introductory Price' of $79 (versus $99) until the end of September. An Education Edition is also available only $39 (after Sept. 30 willl be $49) for currently enrolled students with a valid .edu address.
Note that the company states, "Ortelius is designed for cartographic output as the end product, intentionally not a GIS system, though the Professional Edition with add more GIS-type operations to the currently available tools. On a general note the Standard Edition is likely to fall short in some aspects for hardcore geographers and GIS users; the Professional Edition is intended to provide many more GIS features." So some users may want to wait for the Pro Edition for increased functionality.
From The Map Room
Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 5:34PM I am not a fan of blogs soley created to bash others' mapping and webGIS work without offering any constructive critisism or at least offering examples of the author's own work. You know who you are. But this one seems to provide good examples of common map mistakes with helpful reference to cartographic theory (and has a clever title). I will likely use some of these examples in my class.
Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 12:34PM 
From Marek. Perhaps borrowing a bit of the name from the famous ColorBrewer (snap at right) project 
comes the TypeBrewer project (snap at left) to help us pick fonts on our maps. TypeBrewer is a free help tool that gives non-specialist mapmakers a chance to explore typography in a semi-structured environment. I confess I could spend some time playing with font type, spacing, density on a map of Italy.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 11:36AM
I love this scale comparison work by Bill Rankin, as posted on Radical Cartography.
http://www.radicalcartography.net/?manhattan
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 8:52AM 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1xXTi1nFCo
This video on Myriahedral Projections is a great illustration of how projections work in general, but the cuts it makes are fantastic. Myriahedral Projections have many sides, but are (almost) conformal and conserve areas well. This video is entertaining for any crowd.
Recent Paper on Myriahedral Projections here: http://www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/myriahedral/CAJ103.pdf
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 10:40PM Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 1:19PM So I have to admit, the last two days I've spent about 8hrs playing with the 20+ visualizations on NYT online. I also just saw they launched their own website NYT Data Visualization Lab And users can access this to create their own visualizations. The potential for this Flash style graphics with GIS is endless, it would be great to see a Flash+GIS product out there. The New York Times is clearly leading this march, it will be interesting to watch it develop. Cheers, Josh
Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 1:26PM 
Eric Sanderson is visiting CNR next week: Chris G pointed me to his work. Imagining Manhattan before European contact through visualization. Gorgeous work, and appealing on many levels for geographers everywhere. Project site, and highlights from the New Yorker. The image here shows an aerial view of Manhattan as it might have looked in 1609, juxtaposed with the outline of Manhattan today.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 1:35PM Perhaps it's foolish to point out yet another awesome NYTimes infographic, but I found their recent set of maps describing growth and new architecture in Beijing to be both interesting and beautiful. Their Olympic medal history visualization is also cool. Damn them for being so awesome. All the time. </fawning>
