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Cartagen

By Jordan ⋅ December 8, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Cartagen is an interesting new Open Source framework for mapping in the web browser. Cartagen utilises the new “canvas” element of html 5 (an upcoming spec for the language predominantly used to code websites). This allows it to render mapping data without the aid of flash or any other plugins.

Tufte and Cartography

By Jordan ⋅ June 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

How useful is Tufte for making maps? – a study of Edward Tufte’s classic The Visual Display of Quantative Information and how it relates to cartography

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