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Cartagen

December 8, 20090 Comments Tagged: canvas, cartagen, cartography, html5, mapping

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 ...

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All Streets

August 6, 20090 Comments Tagged: landscape, map, mapping, roads, streets, urban, us

All Streets is a project mapping the US purely by streets and roads. The image reveals not only the shape of the country, but lighter and darker patches (more or less roads) reveal landscape features, and urban sprawl.

Tufte and Cartography

June 4, 20090 Comments Tagged: book, cartography, mapping, tufte, visual design

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