I’ve been working with Urban Mapping to make some cool maps out of their data and API. It’s been a great project. The work has been somewhat along the lines of what I described in the recent Cartographic Statistician post. I got to sift through their fairly extensive data catalog and pick and chose things to map. Yes – a cartographer’s dream! It looks like I’ll be making more of these, but the one shown below is the first:
The Urban Mapping basemap is really nice. I’d like to showcase it a bit more in upcoming maps by creating maps that the user needs (or wants) to zoom into, thus unveiling more detail in the basemap. This particular map is pretty sweet as-is but of course it is more of a small-scale type of thing that is best at the U.S. zoom level. Incidentally, they are responsible for the basemap used in Tableau software, which is a great data-visualization product to be aware of. In fact, Stephen Few is a big fan of Tableau.
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