map design

• io sono Gavin
• following some encouragement i started learning Italian on Duolingo – just to pick up a few phrases and words ahead of going to Italy for a holiday soon. having fun with that so far, well done Duolingo gamification
• visited a flea market and picked up a few old American road maps. one of them has a really nice legend. i like it a lot. see below.
• the acquisition of yet more random old maps has spurred the creation of a new spreadsheet, as i’ve been meaning to start cataloguing my growing collection. i hope to have a page on my website for it some day, so having a spreadsheet in addition to a vague plan feels like a good step forward.

Last month I took part in my first 30DayMapChallenge – a daily mapmaking challenge that takes place in November each year.

Hello! This week I thought I’d share a few highlights from my BCS Conference notes.

The first Student Reflection in GEOG 486 Lesson 1 asks:

Which map of the two below best communicates the trend of the data? Why?

For the graded assignment in the Introduction to Mapping, Spatial Data and GIS course I completed in June I made the following map:

In Lesson 4 of GEOG 868 I completed a site selection using PostGIS.

The Making Maps unit for the Introduction to Mapping, Spatial Data and GIS course I completed in June featured a tourism case study. The exercise that week was to create a tourist map of Melbourne in Australia.

In Lesson 3 of GEOG 868 I played around with PostgreSQL and PostGIS for the first time. For the project at the end you are given a class_roster.txt file that contains a list of students and their postal codes. The task was to join that with data provided earlier in the lesson and then plot the students’ locations on a map in QGIS. Here’s how I went about doing that.

As noted in Hello (GIS) World I was recently working on the first assignment in the QGIS Training Manual. I planned to do 3 things for the assignment: