http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2021-09-14T23:55:51Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2021-09/simple-world-maps/ <p>With the latest update to the CDC recommendations for international travel (trdr: don't), I wanted to visualize the stats of different countries. I found this <a href="https://mapchart.net/world.html">neat little webapp</a> that lets you interactively assign colors, export the <a href="https://gist.github.com/iamcal/56679cc7a45dad0094b0988a9c8cb67d">data as JSON</a> and then build a static PNG:</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="/images/blog/cdc_map.png"><img src="/images/blog/cdc_map.png" width="600" height="386" /></a></p> 2021-09-14T23:55:51Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2021-01/10163/ <p>I created a <a href="https://github.com/iamcal?tab=repositories&amp;q=gmaps&amp;type=&amp;language=">couple of google maps helpers</a> when I was working on personal projects a few years ago, but this <a href="https://medium.com/@asimmittal/custom-tooltips-for-google-maps-in-pure-javascript-a8004b8e9458">tutorial on adding custom tooltips to overlay shapes</a> was super useful.</p> 2021-01-06T00:51:40Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2015-07/axonometric-tube/ <p>Transport for London has released 124 <a href="http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2015/07/12/3d-maps-of-every-underground-station-ab/">axonometric diagrams</a> of underground stations. Looking at stations you've walked through thousands of times is still a little confusing.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/covent-garden.jpg"><img src="/images/blog/covent-garden.jpg" width="600" height="399" /></a></p> 2015-07-17T19:31:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-11/us-election-maps/ <p>Mark Newman at the University of Michigan has put together some <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/">nice visualizations</a> of voting patterns in the 2012 US presidential elections, scaled by number of electoral college votes, rather than by land area.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/"><img src="/images/blog/countycartrb1024.png" width="600" height="413" /></a></p> 2012-11-10T08:07:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-09/click-and-drag/ <p><a href="http://xkcd.com/1110/">Today's xkcd</a> combines my love of xkcd and slippy maps. And it's a big one. Luckily someone has put together a <a href="http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/">draggable/zoomable version</a>.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de"><img src="/images/blog/xkcd.png" width="600" height="406" /></a></p> 2012-09-19T16:45:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-06/more-underground-maps/ <p>Andrew Godwin has just released an <a href="http://stations.aeracode.org/">excellent mapping project</a>, visualizing a few London Underground stations, complete with public corridors, escalators, spiral staircases and platforms. The maps are 3D models, which you can pan and zoom inside the browser. Digging into the source is also worth a look, since it uses some nice canvas and <a href="https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js">three.js</a> guts.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://stations.aeracode.org/"><img src="/images/blog/underground.jpg" width="600" height="292" /></a></p> <p>Poking around his other work, the <a href="http://www.aeracode.org/projects/twintubes/">Twin Tubes</a> map is also worth a look - the underground network with each individual track visualized.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://www.aeracode.org/projects/twintubes/"><img src="/images/blog/twintubes-section.png" width="500" height="200" /></a></p> 2012-06-26T17:53:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-06/early-world-maps/ <p>A <a href="http://socks-studio.com/2012/06/10/how-the-world-was-imagine-early-maps-and-atlases/">fascinating look</a> at early maps of the world. The relative scales vary wildly.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://socks-studio.com/2012/06/10/how-the-world-was-imagine-early-maps-and-atlases/"><img src="/images/blog/maps-04-mappa_di_eratostene.jpg" width="600" height="352" /></a></p> 2012-06-13T01:12:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-03/2766/ <p><a href="http://content.stamen.com/watercolor_process">the process</a> behind stamen's beautiful watercolor map tiles</p> 2012-03-29T23:14:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-03/2761/ <p>these <a href="http://burritojustice.com/2012/03/20/san-francisco-archipelago/">maps of sf, adjusted for sea levels rising</a>, are very very awesome. luckily i live upstairs, just off the coast of point hayes</p> 2012-03-22T06:40:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-06/2688/ <p>interested in transit mapping? then settle in and <a href="http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~mjr/underground/Breaking_the_rules.pdf">read this excellent paper</a></p> 2011-06-26T05:48:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)