Over the past couple of years I’ve been so happy and honored to make sample maps of the Spilhaus World Ocean Map, to help spread the word about this wonderful perspective dreamed up by Athelstan Spilhaus and mathemagically interpreted by David Burrows and Bojan Šavrič (outstanding Esri colleagues) so it could be slung out to the map-making masses. It even landed on the front page of Reddit (at least once) as a “map of the world if you’re a fish.”
We’ve shared a lot of resources for GIS folks to make maps in this projection (or projected coordinate system?), and even incorporated it into the Cartography mooc. But those formats and tools might not be directly accessible to designers who want to work with this map. Here are some vector assets that may be useful in this regard. All of the vectors are sourced from the glorious Natural Earth, projected to Spilhaus in ArcGIS Pro, and exported as graphic design assets. Here are those files in a zip folder so you can make your own maps for fish. It contains:
- Oceans SVG
- Coastline SVG
- Graticule SVG
- Vignette overlay PNG
- All these assets together in an Illustrator file
Happy ocean mapping! John
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