I carved this pumpkin globe a few years ago but given it’s Halloween I thought I’d share it as my map of the week.
Category: Map of the week
Two planks of wood
The last time I went snowboarding was early 2020 and as I flew out of Tokyo’s Haneda airport mid-February we could just make out a cruise liner docked in Yokohama harbour. It was the Diamond Princess. At the time no-one on our flight knew what was to come, that we’d not be flying for nearly […]
Oklahoma Casserole
I spent a few days at the NACIS conference in Oklahoma City and my map of the week could have been any number of sensible maps I saw. But for sheer ridiculousness, this wonderful piece of earthenware got me all in a stew. I didn’t make a purchase.
Gerrymandered maps
Cartographers are often the scapegoat for maps that people don’t necessarily agree with. Cartographic bias can manifest in many forms and yes, sometimes the person making the map has a particular angle to draw your attention to. In times past (and possibly in some parts of the world still), maps were made under orders to […]
This charming map
My friend and colleague Warren Davison posted a map this week which he made after a canoe trip with friends. I described it as so good, it’s naughty. Another (the other?) friend and colleague John Nelson referred to it as charming…which led to a few of us on Twitter rehashing the lyrics to The Smiths’ […]
Get vaccinated
A map can only ever reveal what the data exhibits, but a great map can really make the message clear and unequivocal. My map of the week is from an article in the Washington Post where Zach Levitt and Dan Keating posit the relationship between Covid-19 vaccination rates and hospitalization among the US population. The […]
Fashionable cartography
Schitt’s Creek co-creator Dan Levy stumped up to the Met Gala this week in an outfit that screamed maps. I’ve got a lot of map clothing myself but I’ve never been this brave, though to be fair I’ve never been invited to the Met Gala which is an annual fundraising ball for the benefit of […]
For a friend
I’m not sure if it’s something peculiar to cartography folks, or it’s just the people I tend to spend more of my time with but they tend to be very thoughtful, giving, and compassionate. In thinking about my map of the week for this week there were some really great examples on topics such as […]
My difficult second album
Sometime after my first book was published in 2018 I began to think I had another one in me. Thematic Mapping: 101 inspiring ways to visualise empirical data was published this week by Esri Press. Written mostly in 2019 and during the early part of working at home as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, […]
London maps in the wild
It’s been a long wait but I finally managed to get back home to the UK this last week to see family and friends. This week’s map of the week is therefore a personal collection of maps of the week – just a selection of some of the maps I came across on my travels. […]