A GIS student at the University of Kentucky has created a prototype for a location-based app that serves primarily women who are seeking local services. Summary by Christina DeBlasio
Maps and Cartography
Maps and Cartography
Color Maps to Your Heart’s Content With this City Maps Coloring Book
City Maps: A coloring book for adults is a 94-page book containing 44 maps covering cities from around the world.
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New Edition of Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users
The second edition of Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users is now available from Esri Press.
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Data Visualization Strategies Using Tile Grid Maps
A new mapping method has emerged with high-profile news outlets like The New York Times and Bloomberg Business which are using tile grid maps, which represent each state with a congruent square
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Join MapLift to Help Fix Maps on Wikipedia
The North American Cartographic Information Society and the FixWikiMaps Project are organizing the first ever MapLift from August 28th through September 4th this year. MapLift is a program to identify and fix bad, outdated, or incomplete maps on Wikipedia. Volunteers are being solicited to help with the program. Those interested can signup via the MapLift signup […]
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Tile Grid Maps
One issue with choropleth maps is that geographic areas that are small in area can oftentimes become indecipherable when viewed on a small scale map. Take for example, a map of the United States. The states located in the New England region are far smaller in size than states along the Western […]
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The Sound of Silence: A Noise Map of the U.S.
If you are looking for some peace and quiet, the National Park Service (NPS) has made it a little easier to find. A new map from the NPS displays the noisiest as well as the quietest places in the United States. What they found is not surprising. The east coast […]
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Paper Maps Refuse to Die in the Digital Age
In today’s era of digital maps, the use of paper maps might seem a bit antiquated. When Google Maps are easily accessible through any computer, tablet, or smartphone, pulling out a paper map appears to be as old-fashioned as using a rotary telephone or listening to a vinyl record. There […]
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Dragon Hunters: a Mapping Project for the British Legends
The team behind Dragon Hunters explains their crowd funding campaign currently running on Indiegogo. Can we map a legend? Can we map dragons as we map the distribution of African lions or North American bald eagles? Like eagles, dragons are told to cut the sky with their wings, but they also dig […]
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Mapping Almost 250 Years of Buildings in Manhattan
Morphocode‘s Urban Layers allows users to drill down and view the history of Manhattan’s buildings by mapping out over 45,000 buildings and symbolizing them by age. Users can filter buildings by age by interacting with the graph which shows year of construction on the X axis and the number of buildings built […]
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StateFace
Here’s a font collection cartographers and those in GIS might want to download for future use. StateFace is a sets of icons for the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and one showing the continental United States. The shapes have been simplified to make them easily usable for instances where […]
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Photozincography: Advances in Cartography
Photozincography, or heliozincography, was a revolutionary way of copying photographic negatives onto zinc to be used for map making, outlines, engravings, and the reproduction of images.