Posts under ‘Maps’

The exact date is not clear yet, but I’m guessing it will be available around the end of summer 2010. It’s too early to nail down pricing, but since you will get a real physical product to hang on your wall, it will have to cover the cost of making it.
The map has been [...]

Experimenting with StudioArtist 4, Photoshop CS4.

“Metro’s ever-popular Walk There! guide recently won several international awards at the annual Environment Systems Research Institute International User Conference held earlier this month in San Diego. The guide’s maps to great places to walk around the Portland-Vancouver area took home two top prizes, including a best overall win.
The ESRI International User Conference, the [...]

Panel #1, the southern-most of the 4 panel mapset has been updated thanks to feedback from users of the map. Thank you S.H., J.R., E.S., and others who wrote in.
http://www.artofgeography.com/maps/fp/

From www.oregonmetro.gov
“Introducing Walk There! Metro’s new guide to great places to walk in the Portland-Vancouver area. The book will lead you on 50 explorations of newly acquired urban natural areas, scenic parks, historic neighborhoods and fascinating main streets. Detailed maps and route descriptions will help you discover the region’s rich history and varied landscapes while [...]

I’m pleased to announce the availability of a book by James Thayer titled “Portland Forest Hikes: Twenty Close-In Wilderness Walks”. Here are twenty wilderness hikes within twenty miles of downtown Portland, Oregon, less than a half hour’s ride from the city. Adventurers at all skill levels will be surprised by the remoteness and remarkable beauty [...]

Just in time for the first trillium blossoms of spring, the Forest Park map is ready for general use. This map went through several months of development and a couple months of beta testing. The current version of the map is v615 — if you have an older version, make sure to download the latest [...]

“Are you wondering what the photo georeferencing “feature” in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is like? Find a photo that has latitude and longitude already encoded in its EXIF metadata. Open it with the Preview Application, turn on the inspector, and voila, under the “More Info” tab you get the metadata above a small world [...]

Microsoft Virtual Earth adds Birds-Eye View to 3D Globe: “
We all somewhat guess this would be coming around and tonight Microsoft releases Birds-eye View for their 3D Globe. They’ve taken those great Birds-eye View images from the 2D maps and using Photosynth they stiched them all together to create a ‘3D World’. Now [...]

John Krygier wrote “I sat down one day and made a list of Tufteisms from the book” … leading to “20 Tufteisms from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”
which he then distills down to six commandments.
As someone who has three of Tufte’s books, this is quite interesting. Another aspect I liked in the books [...]

In my last post, I mentioned how there was one prototype of the glass San Francisco map that used the typeface Klavika, and while it wasn’t chosen for the final product, I was very curious how it would work for a city map. Well the answer can be seen in the Portland map series project [...]

I meant to announce this some time ago when it was unveiled. I’ve gotten quite a few queries regarding aspects of this map, so I’m posting some more info about it.
From across the lobby of the San Francisco Business District Hilton, the map looks like it is one giant sheet of glass, twelve feet [...]