Maps and stuff. Fun things.
This list comes from my distant past as a UX designer but I just happened across it and think it bears a bounce. Here it is, largely as it appeared nine years ago. I think these fails still hold up…unfortunately. … Every interface has an energy budget –there is no way around that. Some interfaces … Continue reading 5 UX Fails
Some time ago I made a map of the Great Lakes in the style of the little paper craft maps I’d see in the gift shops of every beach community. And I described the arduous process of creating it for yourself. But why do hard things when you can do the same thing easily? Here is a style for ArcGIS … Continue reading Paper Cut Maps
Here are some maps in a projection that shows the world’s oceans as a single body of water. Read how this projection came about here. Happy Mapping! John Continue reading Spilhaus
In February of 2001, Danielle and I were driving through the chain of bridges connecting the Florida Key islands, tossing around possible baby names for our unborn boy. Danielle was thumbing through a fat book of baby name ideas; I’d asked her to read through some of the nordic names. She hit upon Bjorn, and … Continue reading Bear Island
Here is a step-by-step if you are interested in how the felt is made (here’s the whole map-making-madness channel, if you are feeling brave). It covers the creation of a texture in Adobe Illustrator, using that texture image in Pro symbology, then saving and using a saved style. Also, you get to hear my nasally Midwestern … Continue reading How to Make the Felt Style
Originally posted at the Esri Viewpoint blog, here. Each year my siblings and our families gather at my father’s home in Mackinaw City, Michigan and spend the better part of a week procrastinating the inevitable forced structure of the annual family photograph. Pausing the beautiful chaos of the gathering for the brief formality of cramming … Continue reading Thinking about the Earth at Night
These maps were tediously cut, stacked, and stitched by hand. Took me forever but it was worth it. Also, I am lying these are digital maps. Here is an ArcGIS Pro resource to get cracking away at felting your own maps. And I do some pondering at the end of this blog post about why … Continue reading Felted Cartography
