Snow Mountain Distance Map

2013-08-27T10:48:25-07:00

I put on my cartographer’s hat today and made a distance map (png/svg) for Snow Mountain. The regular map for this area doesn’t have any distance markers on it, so these are based on talking with the ranger in the park. He seemed knowledgeable, so these numbers are probably the best we’ll get for a while.

If somebody discovers that the rangers in Snow Mountain finally have firm distances, let me know what they are, and I’ll happily update this map. Until then, attached is the map as both an SVG and a png. Enjoy.

Maps We Really Need to Use More

2008-10-21T11:21:27-07:00

I stumbled across some incredible maps yesterday while looking at some maps of the status of the American election.

These maps use the Gastner and Newman algorithm (don’t ask me for details) to stretch a map to make sizes of countries correspond with some datum of interest. Generally, we study geography as a separate topic from useful stats, but these pictures show which countries are really important, and which might be candidates for less emphasis.

For example, we can take the map of the world, and stretch it so that we can see where the population of the world is located:

Or we can analyze where the highest rates of HIV/AIDS can be found:

Or total spending on health care (no surprises here):

Pretty interesting stuff. This link includes more of these, and also software for making them yourself.

Michael Jay Lissner

Snow Mountain Distance Map

Maps We Really Need to Use More