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Stunning Old Atlases
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As I have mentioned before, archive.org provides some amazing resources for free download. I thought I would have a look to see what it had in the way of old atlases and I wasn’t disappointed. Here are a couple of my favorites: The Reynold’s Universal Atlas was published in the 19th century and includes over ...
ArcGIS for iPhone: Review
ESRI have just launched their ArcGIS for iPhone Application. I have tested it out and thought I would share a my first impressions. I conducted the test on my iPhone 3GS running software version 4.0.1 and with 1 to 3 bars of 3G signal. Overall I found the app to be very impressive. You are ...
The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design
***Not long after posting this, the “The Look of Maps” appears to have been removed from archive.org”*** ESRI Press have announced they will be re-printing Arthur H. Robinson’s classic book “The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design“. The book begins with the following quote from William Morris Davis: “It is just as important ...
Top 60 Chinese Cities
Cities are one of the many phenomena that follow a long-tailed distribution. In simple terms there are a few big cities and lots of small ones. The classic way of showing a long tailed distribution (and the method from which the name is taken) is to produce as plot such as that below: The infographic ...
Magnificent Maps
Last Sunday I visited the Magnificent Maps Exhibition at the British Library. The exhibition has been hugely popular and I can see why- I thoroughly enjoyed my visit. The amount of information within the maps means I want to make a second visit. My favourite map overall was the Klenke Atlas for its sheer size ...
Tips on Good Academic Poster Design
Grad school poster_talk View more presentations from James Cheshire. I was invited to give a brief talk to a UCL Graduate School Training course on good academic poster design. I have only designed a couple of posters myself but found the process very rewarding. I prepared a few slides (although wasn’t asked to present them) ...
WhereCampEU: the origin of the ‘Campers
I have run the WhereCampEU 2010 attendee list (without duplicate names) through the Onomap Classification tool developed here at UCL Geography/ CASA. It gives a fair guess as to the sorts of places this year’s WhereCampEU attendees are from. It isn’t perfect but we get it right most of the time. See how your name ...
Mapping and Colour blindness
The explosion in spatial data availability and dissemination through online visualisation has produced many interesting maps. A friend of mine, however, recently commented that not enough is done for those with colour blindess. To see the impact of this I was recommended a great website developed by Stanford University that enables users to check how ...
Diaries of Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Scott’s diary has been added to the virtual book collection of the British Library. You may notice from some of my previous posts (such as this one on glacier tracking) I have an interest in icy places so I am especially excited to have the opportunity to view “first hand” the writing of one ...
ESRI’s Free Maps
Following a slightly critical post about the map featured on ESRI’s Geomedicine website I thought I would balance things with a post on a good example (in my opinion) of a mapping service from ESRI. I was really impressed with their Free Embeddable Maps website. Users can select from a number of demographic measures such ...
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