“Neo”, “Paleo”, “Geo”, what?

Just a quick note that the online journal V1 Magazine today posted an interview with me about the CUNY Mapping Service’s online mapping work.  I’m honored that Matt Ball asked to talk with me about our work — he has interviewed some pretty impressive people over the years and it’s a thrill to have our [...]

Homage to the people behind OASISnyc

Last week’s UrbanOmnibus features an article I wrote about a new and completely revamped version of the OASIS mapping website in New York City — see “A new OASIS for New York“.  (Also see an earlier blog post about how we designed the cartography in the new OASIS maps.)
OASIS is the Open Accessible Space Information [...]

Mapping “hard to count” areas for 2010 Census

UPDATED 8/21/09: Newsday (Long Island’s daily newspaper) reproduced an island-wide version of one of our maps in their article today (though the map only appeared in the print version of the paper).
People are gearing up across the US for the 2010 Census — not just the Census Bureau, of course, but organizations large and small who [...]

Online cartography for richly layered maps

Several recent items have called attention to the growing effort to make really good-looking maps online – see Matt Ball on the coming “cartographic explosion” and Peter Batty’s posts highlighting the great maps from OSM and CloudMade and of course Stamen Design (hardly an inclusive list, but it’s already a long-ish intro sentence).
It’s an exciting [...]