New post: "Designing for all audiences: Mapping the future of food". Stamen designer Caroline Carter shares how we worked with The Plotline from Earth Genome to visualize which food crops are best-suited to the changing climate in Africa.
#map The choice of a cartographic projection is never innocent, and is often part of a political and geopolitical project/discourse. Control and management of territory, presentation and justification of ideological projects, conquests... The creation of global projections centered on a single country is no exception to the rule. But if some of them predominate, others remain rarer and have a more restricted distribution, like this map centered on Argentina
What AD&D 2E and older products have a good library of "overland" map symbols for cities and towns of various sizes, as well as other locations (such as ruins, caves, etc.).
I am looking for inspiration. Other products are also okay, but I am looking for something of an "Old School" / #OSR vibe (though explicitly not hexcrawls).
The epic linguistic map came up in conversation at work today, so today is one of those days to regularly to pause and spend some time admiring this map of North American English dialects by Rick Aschmann:
I've been playing with #OpenStreetMaps via #osmnx, which is awesome , but I struggle with simple stuff like adding a bunch of places as markers. Everything looks a bit like the owl drawing meme, either showing something too easy and useless, or something too advanced and also useless or beyond my comprehension. Maybe some other Python tools?
(I know about Marcelo's fabulous PrettyMaps but it is not exactly a viz tool)
Boek 11 van 2024: "Grensverkenningen" door Kester Freriks & Martijn Storms. Intéressant voor liefhebbers van cartografie en geschiedenis van grenzen. Oude landkaarten verkend in het heden. #boeken#lezen@boeken#cartography
#Drawing and (digital) #painting is something I often fantasize as a hobby I'd like to take on - if only I had more time. And, given how many art-related books I own, I have fantasized about this a lot.
Alas, my time is limited - so I largely limit myself to some #ttrpg#cartography at most...
"Helvetica is more than a font, it’s a state of mind".
In our latest blog post, Stamen cartographer @alan takes us on a typographic tour through the font selection in our signature "Toner" map style, which we migrated to @stadiamaps last year. Get ready to learn more than you ever wanted to know about typefaces #Helvetica, #Arial, and #Inter.
This spatial representation of the subject, dating from 1939, defines itself as Being a map of physics, containing a brief historical outline of the subject as will be of interest to physicists, students, laymen at large; Also giving a description of the land of physics as seen by the daring sould who venture there. via @bigthink
Following the cities theme, the next one is a city and a sovereign country.
The map was created using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and enhanced with a shaded relief map using Copernicus EU DEM data, with the help of #Blender and #QGIS.
I am a near-complete beginner with #QGIS , and have a question:
Let's say I've got a QGIS dataset of a fictional world - i.e. an entire globe.
How can I generate an image file from that dataset that shows a projection of specific portion of that world map (i.e. not the whole globe), and displays correct latitude and longitude lines as show in this sample map of Scandinavia?