I’m not particularly a follower of fashion, and as any cartographer will know we’re not a profession that supports a life of couture clothing. But I was interested in the announcement of Christian Dior’s Summer 2023 collection which features full print maps. To be specific, a fabric which apparently Dior designed in the 1950s called […]
Tag: mapoftheweek
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 […]
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. […]
Streamflow
This week’s map of the week is Streamflow, by the USGS Data Science for Water Resources team. You can check out the original here. It’s a type of regular, non-contiguous cartogram. It’s also referred to as a tiled or gridded map. I like to refer to these sorts of representations as chartmaps, because it uses […]
Mapping climate change
My map of the week was going to be the interactive map on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) web site. It’s a pretty solid example of where we’re at in terms of designing online maps as a portal for exploring data, and I felt it important to highlight it. And then James Cheshire […]
COVID-19 Integrated County View
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 […]
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 […]