Tag: map

• ST VINCENT ISLAND

  

  I have never actually set foot on St. Vincent Island, but it’s sandwiched between a lot of places I love and close enough to home that whenever I open up a web map I can usually see it sitting there, just on the periphery. The stark ridges crossing the island from end to end are…

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  November 2020

• APALACHICOLA RIVER TABLE

  

  For this project, I upcycled a tabletop found in a dumpster and added a hand-carved “map” of the Apalachicola River. The design takes the river and arranges it into a spiral, with the headwaters at the table’s center. I then documented the process in a StoryMap called From Trash to Topographic!, which also highlights the…

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  June 2020

• CAPE SAN BLAS

  

  A remote stretch of sand home to crumbling lighthouses, ancient shell middens, Confederate saltworks, and Cold War missile launches.

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  June 2020

• GRAVE SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK

  

  I started working on this spooky map in September of 2019 and was very pleased with the fact that I had so many weeks to finish it in time for Halloween. But that ended up being a naïve hope. Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) is renowned for its waterfalls, black bears, and misty mountain…

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  November 2019

• THE USA OF PBJ

  

  We’re never too old for a delicious peanut butter & jelly sandwich, in my opinion. Using data from the US Department of Agriculture’s CropScape program, I mapped out the prevalent growing regions for some of the major ingredients used to make a PBJ. Originally I was really only thinking about grape jelly, before realized that…

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  September 2019

• SPRING COLORS

  Growing up in Florida, I used to think it was weird how many different “Blue Springs” we had. One one hand, it could be confusing. On the other, it always felt like such an uninspired name for one of the state’s most iconic attractions. They’re all blue. Water is wet. Thinking on this years later,…

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  December 2018

• NPS VISITORS 2017

  14″ x 8.5″ Hover for zoom This look and technique was taken from a map by John Nelson. It uses monthly visitor data to show when people are visiting US National Parks, rather than how many. The bigger the ring, the bigger the spike in visitation for that month. Parks with a tight spread –…

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  October 2018

• FLORIDA STATE PARK SYSTEM

  

  This map is a redesign of a redesign. The original map it was intended to replace felt a bit cluttered with aerial imagery, and was very ink-intensive to print, so I wanted to try to make something that was both clear to read and conservative on ink, as it is a popular print request around…

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  October 2018

• SOUTHERN GOTHIC LITERATURE

  36″ x 24″ Hover for zoom This map depicts a selection of noteworthy authors from the Southern Gothic genre and where they grew up. Southern Gothic is a loosely defined genre with many possible qualifiers, which made choosing authors a lot more complicated than I anticipated. I spent a long time researching them before making…

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  October 2018