The Morning News is running an excellent quiz for all you geography heads: “Cloud of Atlases“
There are many ways to shade a map. And very few ways to say something neutral about shockingly bad cartography. Nonetheless, I do believe I have a new favorite that beats out the current reigning champion of the “clown barf chloropleth.”
So why does the International Date Line (IDL) cause so many headaches? It seems like a really simple problem, but it ends up touching a bunch of mapping concepts, none of which are easily dealt with. I ran across this when working on the Sourcemap project, when we wanted to relatively realistic travel paths. When I say “relatively”, I mean, don’t travel from Japan to California via France.
» Continue ReadingAzavea is a rare company. One of the benefits that we (full-time employees) earn is the ability to define our own research project after 6 months. There is a list of active research projects here. My personal interests took me to working with C. Dana Tomlin, and implementing a radial propagation tool for ArcToolbox. In addition, I wanted to collaborate with the MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group on the project http://www.sourcemap.org/.
I won’t get into what sourcemap is (that’s already been done), but I thought it would be cool to mention some of the technical challenges that the project was/is facing, and what we’re doing about it.
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