It is visualizing something with locations. One type of Information visualization. It often involves Geocoding.
Table of Contents
Challenges #
- Theorema Egregium
- All maps of parameter estimates are misleading
- Cognitive and Usability Issues in Geovisualization
Examples #
- The true size of Africa
- http://www.chromeexperiments.com/globe
- mapbox: How We Built USA TODAY's Election Night Maps
- a map of every person counted by the 2010 US and 2011 Canadian censuses.
- American Migration
- Net Migration Patterns for US Counties
- wind map
- Countries by Area
Methods #
People #
Tools and tips #
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map()
link is a useful function.
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Polymaps - A Javascript library for drawing maps in SVG.
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http://code.google.com/p/webgl-globe/ - "The WebGL Globe is an open platform for geographic data visualization created by the Google Data Arts Team."
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http://unfoldingmaps.org/ - Processing / Java library
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Vincent
Python #
Data #
- http://www.census.gov/ - U.S. Census
- http://www.naturalearthdata.com - Free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales
- http://www.euratlas.net/history/index.html - historical maps
- http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/global.jsp - Gridded population of the world
- http://cartodb.com/ - geospatial database. provide API
Formats #
Links #
Articles #
- http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/ - A nice tutorial of Flowing data blog.
- http://btk.tillnagel.com/tutorials/geo-tagging-placemaker.html - Till Nagel: Processing geo information in Wikipedia articles
- http://www.41latitude.com/post/1268734799/google-styled-maps
- TileMill for Processing by Till Nagel
- Visualization deconstructed: Why animated geospatial data works
- http://eagereyes.org/zipscribble-maps
- Great circles
- flowing data:How to map connections with great circles
- http://paulbutler.org/archives/visualizing-facebook-friends/
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7238284/automating-great-circle-map-production-in-r
Maps #
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equirectangular_projection
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_Counties_with_FIPS_and_names.svg - US county map in svg format.
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BlankMap-FlatWorld6.svg - Blank world map. parallel lat & lng.
- http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2430
Korea #
- http://sgis.kostat.go.kr/contents/shortcut/shortcut_05.jsp - Korean maps & census. need to submit a request to access the data?
- http://sgis.kostat.go.kr/contents/shortcut/shortcut_10.jsp - Apparently, you can download the shape files here.
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