Qartography

The tailings dam of OpenStreetMap experiments.

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Our delightfully impractical and ever so slightly snarky Hipster Map of Melbourne, made using TileMill and CartoDB.

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This bike map of Melbourne started as a quick and dirty attempt to mimic a "San Francisco subway bike map". It could actually have more value as very simplified schematic map of Melbourne's bike paths. Paths are colour coded according to what they primarily follow: a river, a creek, the coast, a train line, a road, a freeway, an aqueduct/sewer or a train line.

Live version here: Melbourne cycle subway.

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This is an open data, open source imitation of Melbourne City Council's "Melbourne Drinking Fountain Map". It took about half an hour, using TileMill. Someone just needs to add a lot more of the city's drinking fountains into OpenStreetMap.

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A rough cut at a bike map of Melbourne. Plenty of room for improvement.

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Creative cartography gives you a different perspective on familiar places. Do you recognise these places in Melbourne? What does red represent?

This is the result of idly playing around with TileMill and OpenStreetMap. Powerful tools, once mastered...