Came across this last night when I couldn't sleep (yes I'm even looking at maps at 2am :)). It started through a great blog called Kelso's Corner. It's a cartography/visualizations oriented blog/website, but he posts examples of so...

I really like this visualization of population trends for major urban centres.  I particularly like the placement of the the urban centres throughout the US, in what looks like a psuedo cartogram style. 

    For those that don't know, I'm an American living temporarily in Australia.  Back in the US I wasn't much of a sports watcher, always finding something else to do on Sunday afternoons.  Although, I did watch the...

Hasn't really been a year since this blog was started, but the year has ended. Shortly after starting it I tracked it with Google Analytics which is free and pretty easy to embed in the blog. I've had 1,700 unique visitors and 2,100 visits ...

Was in Brisbane last week and noticed a new marketing campaign for Qantas. Here is a picture of one their posters. Map pushpins have been around since the seventies at least, that is according to old cop movies. But I think the notion of a pushpi...

I do have interests outside of GIS and Geography. One is movies...It's great when the two meet. Here is a really beautiful information visualization of movie revenues for the past 30 years. To me it looks the way oil paint can layer together. Ver...

This is perhaps my favorite illustration. It is by Charles Joseph Minard and shows Napoleon's invasion of Moscow, Russia and the subsequent retreat to Poland. It is a space-time illustration, using multivariate data. Edward R. Tufte (author th...