Making Maps @mappingworlds - Tumblr Blog

This is a collection of “persuasive cartography,” maps intended primarily to influence opinions or beliefs - to send or reinforce messages - rather than to communicate objective geographic information (Tyner 2015, 1087). Maps of this sort have also been described as “suggestive cartography,” “rhetorical cartography” and “propaganda maps” (a less apt term, because the word “propaganda” has become a pejorative).

ODC 2014

Open Data Camp is back again this year and the Google office is hosting it on the 22nd and the 23rd of March. I was not able to attend last year's edition but i've already booked my tickets for this year's.

The theme is Indian Elections as India will be going into a major election this year. Day 2 will also feature a hackathon and let me see if I could build something for it.

#odc #open data camp #data visualization #india #indian elections

StatesOfIndia - A collection of geojsons of Indian States. Extracted using gadm.org's shape files and converted using Qgis.

Decided to make a GeoJSON repo for each state of India. Collecting it here. Open for contributions.

#india #GeoJSON #github #maps #cartography

Interactive SVG Choropleths

It started as a freelance for a NGO called CHRI (http://humanrightsinitiative.org/) for a specific campaign 'No More Nirbhayas' (better policing to address the issue of women safety).

The brief was to have an interactive choropleth with would update via a google spreadsheet. For this project, I poked around with SVG maps, Mapsheet and Tabletop mainly. The map is a work in progress and is currently visible at this place.

#india #maps #interactive #cartography #SVG #choropleth

The Final version of the map that was uploaded to Wikipedia

#maps #cartography #schematic #simple maps #Guwahati #india #mapping

Updated the trainlines and some labels on the map. It's difficult to add names when you are aware of that city at a personal level. You are unable to make decisions on what to show and what not.

#schematic #map #maps #cartography #simple #Guwahati #simple maps

Making a schematic map for my upcoming trips.

#schematic #map #maps #cartography #guwahati #simple #simple maps

The visualization at the end of Day 1 of the APCHI conference.

It was a day of learning. Not everyone was wanting to put a pin on the board inspite of us telling them as well as instructions being written.

Our initial ideas on how to make the thread installation were changed after we found it slightly difficult. Ishneet's idea is what we finally used. It reduced our work and made the threads more prominent. Then there was a slight tilt of the pencil which was why we needed to redo the threads. I left the thread lying around and some people actually tried to continue the visualization. This made me realise that perhaps we should make a pinned type of network and have people curve the thread around it. Some others suggested a jigsaw map with countries all around.

I had a short discussion on how in every country, you are thought with your country as the focus of the world map and how when you attend/visit a foreign country, you find it slightly disorienting to find another country at the center (talking with Antonio Pasquale from Frog Design).

So far it's been an awesome networking event and I've met some very interesting people out here.

#apchi #india #Bangalore #map #physical visualization #visualization #threads

Laser cut an India map (from Wikipedia Commons) Doing this for a physical installation. Not sure how its going to be in the end but this is my first attempt at a physical visualization.

This is for APCHI (Asia Pacific Computer Human Interaction) conference which is happening in the city tomorrow onwards.

Let's go mapping!

#maps #visualization #apchi #map #physical visualization

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M for Maps

I’ve been working on cartography this semester and fell in love with it. Here’s my tumblr dedicated to making maps.

mappingworlds

From one of my other tumblr's.

#maps #map #cartography #icon #icons

I used the Laser Cutting machine to etch my map of Bangalore on some wood.

Looks good and maybe I'll improve it and print some more :)

#updates #maps #cartography #Bangalore

Choropleth

Tried out the LeafletJs tutorial to make an interactive choropleth. I decided to join my US athlete dataset from a project last year to the US .shp file from TIGER as the base for this choropleth. This tutorial helped me out. I selected the rows that I needed and exported as a GeoJson for use in the code. The GeoJson was huge though (22mb) and it took forever to load on the web. I then figured out how to simplify the shape file via QGIS. I also tried mapshaper but it distorted the shp file too much. The GeoJson is now 5mb and I still need to figure out how to simplify it further. Well it's live now on Github.

#updates #cartography #maps #github #leafletjs #qgis #geojson

On the Web

Moving on to the last day of the Workshop, we moved onto the web with a simple Leaflet demo.

My code currently uses the pirate map served via Mapbox here.

#updates #web #leafletjs #mapbox #github #maps #cartography