Cider Donut Map

Alex the Cider Donut Reviewer has put together a map showing where to get cider donuts in New England. 

While not getting high marks for creativity, the map is impressive in its reach. Otherwise it's just another teardrop filled Google Map with the "Satellite View" (the detailed images are from airplanes) defaulted-not as easy to read as the map view IMHO. Blue represents where you can get them "fresh and hot" while purple are the pre-made ones. A click brings up the Google detailed info panel with links to reviews and their web sites.

Explore more here.

Bird Migration Explorer

Audubon's Bird Migration Explorer is a guide to "the heroic annual journeys made by over 450 bird species, and the challenges they face along the way."

The legend in the upper right corner shows what the colors mean but also allows you to filter which types of birds you are interested in.

Hovering over a track, you can isolate the species,

then with a click bring up statistics, stories and species-specific maps. The speaker button lets you listen to the birds.

Here is the species connection map for Ospreys showing summer (green), winter (blue) and year-round ranges in yellow.

There is a red "take action" option that will add you to their mailing list to get updates on how you can help these birds.

The search for a species function has nice pictures of each species to scroll through,

though when I started typing Osprey I ended up with a Bell's Sparrow instead. Must be the network issues we've been having.

Explore on your own here

King Charles III-Urban Planner

Britain's new King has a strong interest in urban planning. In fact he helped design a "new urbanist" town, Poundbury, just outside of Dorchester in Dorset. Here is a photo, via Flickr, of an in situ map of the town as it was in 2008. Click for better readability.

from Flickr user Anne

The town's traditional architecture gives it an (artificial) old-time feel while embracing principles of sustainability such as use of local materials, renewable energy sources like biomethane, and energy efficient designs.

Image via Duchy of Cornwall

A 2016 article in the Guardian begins with this quote: "Poundbury, the Prince of Wales’s traditionalist village in Dorset, has long been mocked as a feudal Disneyland. But a growing and diverse community suggests it’s getting a lot of things right."

 

This image from planner Léon Krier shows how much of the plan had been completed (in black) as of 2013.

via Architect Magazine

Here is a somewhat dulled image of the master plan showing land uses.

via DorsetRoads

The streets are designed to slow traffic and the walkability index is high according to Space Syntax,

however "the progressive attitude to cars hasn’t curbed habits: a survey conducted at the end of the first phase showed that car use was higher in Poundbury than in the surrounding rural district of West Dorset. The free-for-all parking policy, meanwhile, has turned many of the streets and squares into a car park for Dorchester shoppers." - Guardian, 2016

The town is scheduled to be completed in 2025 and a look at Google Maps suggests it is getting close.
 

Tonic Cartography

 I recently saw this map on a 4-pack of Fever Tree tonic water. 

It's very small and hard to read. I could not find it on their web page so I took a picture to blow it up to a readable scale. It's a nicely stylized drawing showing their worldwide "sourcing" of ingredients including smoked applewood water from England, Congolese quinine and Jamaican pimento berry. It's confusing where they've placed some of these ingredients, especially the Mexican bitter oranges in British Columbia. Also, no pictures of ginger? The Mercator influence could also be toned down but I guess I can't expect too much from tonic water cartography.