Tag: map
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BOSTON MARATHON
If you want to skip to the map on mobile, click here. This 10’8″ long ribbon map (or strip map) of the Boston Marathon route was made to be printed on 2″ wide receipt paper. Continuing what has become a minor exploration of impractically long maps: this was the most challenging one yet and combined…
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GREAT LAKES POSTCARD
This was a quick afternoon project to experiment with a hand-drawn workflow. Using Natural Earth data, I exported out three reference images from QGIS (lakes, urban areas, and city points) into the Procreate app on iPad. Then I manually drew out the lakes, shore outlines, urban areas, and city points by hand using a modified…
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MATANZAS RIVERKEEPER
This map was a volunteer project for Matanzas Riverkeeper—a grassroots, non-profit organization dedicated to the health and protection of the Guana, Tolomato, Matanzas estuary and watershed through advocacy, education, and community engagement. The purpose was to have a map of the watershed to display at community tabling events and help engage with residents. The watershed is in…
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WAKULLA RECEIPT MAP
This map was designed to be printed on six feet of thermal receipt paper. Why on earth would anyone do that, you ask? After making a ribbon map of the Suwannee River, multiple people (jokingly?) suggested that I look into receipt printers when I explained how I needed to print the Suwannee map out in…
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ST KILDA
St Kilda is a small cluster of islands in the North Atlantic, located about 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The human history of these islands dates back at least two millennia, and many ancient structures can still be found there today—including prehistoric stone rings, the walls and foundations of a medieval…
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SUWANNEE RIBBON MAP
This 12 foot by 2.5 inch ribbon map shows the Suwannee River and its adjacent conservation lands, from the headwaters at Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp to the Florida Gulf Coast. The map was made using Adobe Illustrator, and draws inspiration from similar ‘ribbon maps’ of the mid 19th century—the primary example being the Ribbon Map of…
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LIGNUMVITAE KEY
Lignumvitae Key, part of the Florida Keys, sits just north of Lower Matecumbe Key, west of Islamorada. It’s protected as a Florida State Park, surrounded by the waters of the Lignumvitae Key Aquatic Preserve, and can only be accessed by boat. The island holds some of the last undisturbed, tropical hardwood hammock found in the…
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EULER SPIRAL CARD
This piece was created for Daniel Huffman’s map projection trading cards project. The idea is to have a set of trading cards for carto-enthusiasts to collect and exchange at conferences, featuring the wide variety of map projections out there. The maps on the cards showcasing these projections are all designed by volunteer cartographers. For my…
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NATIONAL CHAMPION TREES 2021
National Champion Trees are the biggest tree of a particular species based on the height, trunk circumference, and average crown spread. These trees are nominated by the public and maintained in an official register by American Forests. The 2021 list of champions features 561 trees across 39 states. This official register is available via PDF…
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MAP TURTLES MAPPED!
It’s turtles all the way down! The idea for this map first came up while on a visit to the Flint RiverQuarium in Albany, Georgia, where they had a Barbour’s map turtle on exhibit. I sat on the idea for several years until Daniel Wood proposed a #SlowMapChallenge—an alternative to the #30DayMapChallenge where instead of…