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All the Takes You’re About to See on the NYC-Snapchat Map Vandalism

That’s right folks, it happened - an OpenStreetMap vandal made it to prime time

Posted on August 30, 2018

That’s right folks, it happened - an OpenStreetMap vandal made it to prime time: [Read More]

A true map

The quest for the base unit of Democracy

Posted on July 28, 2018

Many an earnest cartographer/journalist/opinion-holder is currently debating — with varying degrees of condescension — the utility of the @nytimes’ latest map piece: [Read More]

New Belgium, 1650

When historical maps read like alternate histories

Posted on July 10, 2018

I found an old map of my corner of the world, in Dutch. Made by Nicolaes Visscher I in 1650, this version is held by the Library of Congress. [Read More]

Imagination vs. the Moat

Some thoughts on Justin O'Beirne's meticulous reverse-engineering of Google's geodata infrastructure

Posted on December 20, 2017

I did some doomsaying last night, and it needs following-up, wrapped around the idea of “imagination”. [Read More]

Bonten Poad

Generating fake Vermont placenames with a neural network

Posted on July 20, 2017

“Yup, take the Pendoil bridge just past Sad Cahue Village, and you’ll be up ta’ Ponkey before ya know it!” [Read More]

Landsat 1 launched in 1973, and the world hasn’t been the same since. Nearly 50 years later, Google has provided a way of realizing the promise of such a long transect of data, offering a viewing portal for timelapses anywhere on earth (well, anywhere that the clouds occasionally part). [Read More]

Drawing the planet in brushstrokes

Posted on November 11, 2016

To take my mind off certain things, I’ve been experimenting with a novel style of cartography: cubism. [Read More]

Putting the Clinton campaign on the map

Posted on October 25, 2016

Everything happens somewhere. In the home stretch of this epic presidential campaign season, location awareness can impact the razor-thin vote margins we expect to see in battleground states. [Read More]