Being as my friends and colleagues over at Axis Maps have met with some success in selling their excellent typographic maps, I thought I would try my had at this whole game of making money on the Internet. So I've put up a few of my river maps up for sale. For more info and … Continue reading Store Launch
On Conformality
I teach cartography for a living, at UW-Madison, and last week I spent some time lecturing about projections. I think that this is probably the most difficult topic to teach -- it's the most technical and abstract, and we tend to avoid math, even though the topic is entirely mathematical in nature. Many students do … Continue reading On Conformality
On River Maps
Update: I've started selling these maps now. For more information (and images), click here. Lately I've been working on a series of river maps, done in the style of Harry Beck's famous London Underground design. Not sure why, but it seems like this style of cartogram has become trendy lately. Many people, for example, have … Continue reading On River Maps
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