Another week of 30 Day Map Challenge Maps…
Day 17 - Flow
Probably the intention here was to have people make maps of the flow of surface water or air or traffic but I decided to make a flow chart instead.
A vaguely interesting look at the trip home I had to make many times as a graduate student at the University of Kansas. Take the longer route through the hills or stick to the direct path through some remarkably dull, flat scenery (my opinion-some people appreciate flatness). If you get off the interstates those parts of Illinois and Indiana are probably much nicer to look at but highway blandness coupled with unremarkable terrain makes for one sleepy drive. The southern part of Indiana is quite a bit nicer to drive through as are Kentucky and West Virginia.
I used Felt and their extract tool to get the state outlines and then break them apart. The outlines are a bit caricatured but I like that look for this purpose.
Day 18 - Atmosphere
What’s in the atmosphere? Pollutants. What is a primary atmospheric pollutant? Ozone. What is one of my favorite names for a neighborhood? Ozone Park in Queens, New York. The map is mostly reproduced from earth.org.
Day 19 - 5 minute map
Just a quick map drawn with colored pencils on graph paper. If you look closely there’s a mistake on the west side of town!
Day 20 - Outdoors
Day 21 - Raster
Here is another lost learning opportunity. I work infrequently with raster data and could have spent some time learning some new tricks. Time intrudes though so here is an image from the Natural Earth dataset with tweaks to the colors, transparency and blend modes. I like what happens in the mountains of Pakistan.
Day 22 - North is not always up
Rehashing the (sort of ) joke from Day 13 but oriented towards the Orient (specifically Jerusalem) like the maps of old. This is a terrible mismatch of antique style and modern map but so be it.
Day 23 - 3D
1 comment:
The five minute map is pretty much every city in Utah, except you’d have the intersection of Center and Main as the dividing line between north/south and east/west, respectively.
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