DAY 01
Points
I attempted to plot the route taken by Kowalski in the 1971 movie Vanishing Point.
Day 02
Lines
Visualising NYC road and rail data in Blender – with a nod to Tron.
Day 03
Polygons
Continuing the Tron vibe, I added NYC building polygons to my emerging cityscape.
Day 04
Hexagons
A simple hex, map created in Unfolded, to visualise the number of board game shops in Europe based on OSM data.
Day 05
OpenStreetMap
Taking its cue from merch by Boston celtic-punk band Dropkick Murphy’s, I extracted OSM road data to map and visualise the city.
Day 06
Red
Mapping some of the key venues from the 3 Colours Red and Bush tour from 1997 (the first ever gig I went to was the one at Aston Villa Leisure Centre).
Day 07
Green
Visualising green space amongst the buildings in Birmingham city centre.
Day 08
Blue
And visualising some blue space (the mainly culverted River Rea) in Birmingham city centre.
Day 09
Monochrome
A little tribute to legendary Seattle band Soundgarden, some lidar data mapped showing the ‘sound garden‘ sculpture (adjacent to Magnuson Park in the city) which gave the band its name.
Day 10
Raster
A subtle ‘Tanaka’-style map of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) based on SRTM raster data.
Day 11
3D
A 3-D visualisation of Mount Etna amongst some mist and low-lying clouds.
Day 12
Population
A quick bubble map of the world’s least populated capital cities.
Day 13
Natural Earth
Shaded relief (cross-blended hypsometric tint) and populated places data source from https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ visualised on a spinning globe.
Day 14
Map with a new tool
My first foray in R and the Rayshader tool to visualise SRTM eleveation data.
Day 15
Map made without a computer
A map made out of Weetos to show some of the biggest cocoa bean producing countries.
Day 16
Urban/Rural
A simple thematic map showing urban and rural areas in the West Midlands.
Day 17
Land
Rockall is an uninhabitable granite islet situated in the North Atlantic Ocean that is claimed by the UK.
Does it count as land?
Day 19
Island(s)
A (half-finished) map of the Orkney Islands and its Neolithic stone circles and standing stones/
Day 20
Movement
An isochrone map of access to airports in Great Britain.
Day 21
Elevation
A ‘joyplot’ map of Mexico where the lines reprent the elevelation. Colour and font based on the 1986 world cup logo.
Day 22
Boundaries
The strange legacy boundary in Bristol.
Day 23
GHSL
Population densities of Scandanavia and the Baltic nations, based on the European Commission’s Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) data.
Day 24
Historical
I georeferenced my Afica by Toto shaped vinyl picture disc – which features a map of the continent from the early 80s – and added some relief using SRTM elevation data and rendered in 3-d.
Day 25
Interactive
A scene from Snowdonia created in Mapbox with a vintage Ordance Survey map overlay. Interactive version available here.
Day 26
Choropleth
Instead of just making a normal choropleth map, I wanted to highlight the difference it can make when clipped to buildings – see here for interactive version to adjust slider.
Day 27
Heatmap
Something went wrong on this one and after a very busy day at work I didnt have time to fix it!
Day 28
The Earth is not flat
A releif map of the world, in Bonne projection, where it actually looks rather bumpy and..erm…not flat.
Day 29
null
Null Island is the name used to refer to the point on the Earth’s surface at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude. Using the WGS84 datum, this point is located in international waters in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of West Africa.
Day 30
Meta mapping day
A screenshot of WinDirStat showing my #30DayMapChallenge2021 and the impact it had on my hard drive this year.
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