I love this sort of thing, the combination of data and interactivity. Here you can see the location of every building in Amsterdam, and all of the Netherlands, color coded…
Author: ddavid
While looking for a good map of Amsterdam, I saw a book called The Soft Atlas of Amsterdam. It’s a collection of line drawings and text; all in some way…
Maps truly are everywhere – but I didn’t expect to see one in the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. The entire experience of her story and actually being in the…
We are all familiar with Helvetica Man. He was designed in the mid 1970s as part of a system of “international” icons, in a collaborative project with the AIGA and…
When I walked in the main entrance to the The National Library of Scotland, in the vaulted ceiling above, various globes dangled high above and I spied a large map…
I started it last June. It is the first major creative project of my sabbatical, and a leap of faith. I rolled it up in a tube and put it…
I like to experiment with software to try to push the boundaries of what I can make within the limits of the tool. It’s good to work with systems outside…
In my travels I often run across sculptural cast metal maps. I find these maps fascinating. They give a bird’s eye view of where you are, revealing the immediate area…
Map Detective – Burgess Park, South London was the final project for the online course I took, Maps and the Geospatial Revolution. The course was primarily about working with data…
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