#creative maps

[fionas-college-portfolio-blog]

These are drafts of poems that I made to capture the feelings of the beach firings, I like the way I’ve returned to poems as note takers, and I also like the way these revisions start to resemble the shoreline, or perhaps a notation of movement

[theselazydays]

‘All roads lead to Rome’.

[mapsandjournalism-blog-blog]

A "Bicsy" Map Of San Francisco

Unsimplified SF OpenStreetMap vectors now at 2-20k per tile at zoom 13, in style of @Vizzuality's Bic NY (@brianmount, more info at aguacat.es)

[mapsandjournalism-blog-blog]

The Geotaggers' World Atlas

The Geotaggers' World Atlas maps [first image] are ordered by the number of pictures taken in the central cluster of each one. Locals and Tourists [second image] tries to map which of these pictures are taken by locals and which by tourists (Erich Fischer)

[mapsandjournalism-blog-blog]

Cities dissected block by block

I don't know if it's fair to do this to a city, but let's start with Berlin. Here [first image] is Berlin as you'd see it from above. Here [second image] it is again, after an autopsy. The city has been dismembered, dissected block by block, the blocks then categorized, sorted and stacked by shape (NPR, maps by Arnelle Caron)