When recently writing about the shortcomings of map portals, many of my opinions were shaped by the map usage analytics I collected from the City of Denver that formed my most popular post of 2012. Given the popularity of the topic and the large volume of feedback, I circled back to gather more statistics not only […]
The launch of Google Maps in 2005 brought with it a new way to think about web maps: “tiles”. Lots of tiles. Actually, millions of tiles. The smooth panning and zooming were awesome, but keeping track of all of those 256 x 256px PNG images was, frankly, a chore. Even with a computer. And the […]
Best-selling science writer James Gleick refers to this map by John Nelson a bunch of us were linking to over the weekend (click for larger version): Dot-Density, FTW Based on similar work by Kirk Goldsberry, John took county-level data and posted a red dot for every 100 votes for Romney, a blue dot for […]