Drawing the planet in brushstrokes
To take my mind off certain things, I’ve been experimenting with a novel style of cartography: cubism.
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Putting the Clinton campaign on the map
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] -
Superblocks for a small city
Bernie Sanders’ hometown of Burlington, VT is tiny: just 200k people in the metro area. Barcelona, on the other hand, clocks in at 4.7 million. [Read More] -
From Above
On a plain in western Kenya, mesquite trees flourish where a river spills out of the mountains. Introduced from North America, mesquite has been used worldwide for rapid re-afforestation. It sinks deep roots, quickly. It fixes nitrogen and sequesters carbon. [Read More] -
Primary 2016 Manifesto
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Better friendships through mapping technology
I have trouble getting together with friends these days. I’m not alone in this — distance is a surprising obstacle to maintaining relationships in the landscape of modern America. Can a hack-of-an-app help? [Read More] -
Social Silos
In which I find a parallel universe in my own backyard
Upon the occasion of Halloween, and the need to optimize, I took a look at NextDoor for the first time. They apparently had some sort of dope candy-targeting map for every neighborhood, and since that’s my catnip I had to check it out. Step 1: sign up, because the candymap... [Read More] -
The cartographer’s promised land
The new Mapbox Studio just went to private beta today. Here’s what I’ve learned using it.
There’s a lot of marketing behind the new Mapbox Studio, along with a glowing review in Wired. I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to play with it for a few months now as it developed, and the Mapbox team should be proud. [Read More]