Monthly Archives: January 2011
Store Launch
Posted by on 30th January, 2011
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 [...]
On Conformality
Posted by on 29th January, 2011
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 [...]
On River Maps
Posted by on 28th January, 2011
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 [...]
