Map of the week this week is the CDC COVID-19 Integrated County View which shows current transmission rates (image below screen grabbed 6th August 2021). Four colours indicate high (red), substantial (orange), moderate (yellow), and low (blue). I could argue that even the high rate at 100 per 100,000 people (1%) isn’t particularly ‘high’ in […]
Mappy Football Kits
It used to be the case that football teams had a home kit, and an away kit. They usually had block colours, possibly stripes, and maybe even a collar. The away kit was used simply when there was a clash with the colours worn by the home team. Kits would change every few years with […]
Rethinking GIS
GIS – what’s in a name? I’ve been involved in GIS all my professional life since graduating from a cartography degree just as GIS was killing cartography as a career. But what does GIS actually mean to me at this point in time? It’s something I’ve been pondering recently, and I think we’re missing a […]
Olympic Globe
The constellation of drones used to create a giant globe really caught my attention this week. A spectacular light show as part of the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Globes have an aura about them, and to see one in the sky hovering above the stadium as, I’m sure, people were shouting “that’s […]
Welcome to cartoblography
Every blog needs a reason, and every blog has a lifespan. When I first began writing and publishing through a blog at cartonerd.com it was because a map had piqued my interest, and the blog became a mechanism for teaching. Its focus was on identifying the good, and not-so-good, in map design and discussing the […]