
This is a second derivative map based on a portion of Ballwin Quilt #2.
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Ballwin Quilt #3
|| 12/26/2007 || 2:58 pm || Comments Off on Ballwin Quilt #3 || ||
This is a second derivative map based on a portion of Ballwin Quilt #2.
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Ballwin Quilt #2
|| 12/25/2007 || 1:38 pm || Comments Off on Ballwin Quilt #2 || ||
My memories of Christmas will always be defined by the time I spent growing up in the Burtonwood Manor Condominiums in Ballwin, Missouri. The map above is of the 1,500 foot radius around childhood bedroom on the second floor of 148 Apartment G, Cumberland Park Ct. I remember helping my mother move out of the apartment in 2003 and now only the memories remain. This Christmas I am hanging out in DC without the family, so today’s map is a reflection on times past. After looking at Google’s imagery and comparing it with my imagery and it’s meta-data, I believe mine imagery is slightly newer. I am basing my theory on the apartment’s rooftop coloring. In Google’s imagery the rooftops appear to be multiple colors, which indicates the installation of new roofing shingles. In the USGS imagery, all of the buildings around my former apartment have the same colored shingle, except my old apartment which is darker. This means that either my apartment was the first to be re-shingled or Google is using imagery that is older than April 2006.
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Clayton Quilt #4
|| 12/15/2007 || 6:16 pm || Comments Off on Clayton Quilt #4 || ||
Using the tessellation from Clayton Quilt #3, I made a Hexagon projection version. There is a nice hexagram in the center.
Read more about Clayton, Missouri here
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Clayton Quilt #3
|| 12/14/2007 || 8:46 am || Comments Off on Clayton Quilt #3 || ||
This map was manually constructed and is different than most quilts. Specifically, it does not exhibit radial geometry. I find this map pleasing to the eye simply because I’ve used radial for so long that this map marks a true deviation, like the Shanghai Map. The next map will be very similar, using the exact same imagery, but will be projected radially.
Read more about Clayton, Missouri here.
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Clayton Quilt #2
|| 12/13/2007 || 3:56 pm || Comments Off on Clayton Quilt #2 || ||
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Clayton Quilt
|| 12/12/2007 || 11:59 am || Comments Off on Clayton Quilt || ||
Clayton, Missouri is one of the few satellite cities within Saint Louis County that has dense enough development to have a downtown with high-rise office & residential buildings. When I was younger I remember enjoying downtown Clayton. It was probably the first urban environment I ever explored. In Shaw Park (which is not in the map above), I learned how to ice skate in the mid-1980s and in 1998 I had my first ever DJ gig (what a night!). The source aerial photography was one foot per pixel and taken between April 1st & 10th, 2006. In the map above, I reduced the spatial scale by 25% (which gives about 1.5 feet per pixel) so the Forest Park Expressway would show more. From the meta-data I discovered that Sanborn has an office in Chesterfield (near my hometown) which I’d like to visit sometime in the future.
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2008 Urban America Calendar
|| 11/19/2007 || 11:43 am || Comments Off on 2008 Urban America Calendar || ||
Below are the months of the calendar featuring cities around the United States and links to their respective entries so that you can see the map’s full size. Read more about the other calendars here.
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America as a Cloverleaf
|| 6/18/2007 || 8:09 pm || Comments Off on America as a Cloverleaf || ||
View the original, interactive version, and legend:
This historic map mashup is courtesy of Heinrich Bunting (1545-1606) by way of the Yale University Map Library.
Originally the three cloverleaves were of Africa (South/Middle) , Europe (West/Left), and Asia (East/Right) and at the center was Jerusalem. You can read more about this map at the website Strange Maps.
My rendition is San Francisco’s Financial District (West/Left), the Saint Louis Arch (South), and Lower Manhattan (East/Right) and at the center is the rowhouse in Washington, DC where I reside at.
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Polar Coordinates of the Delmar Loop in University City, Missouri [icositetragon]
|| 1/23/2007 || 8:38 am || Comments Off on Polar Coordinates of the Delmar Loop in University City, Missouri [icositetragon] || ||
8 polar coordinate maps using a zoom of Infinite Delmar Loop.
Read more about the process involved to make these here.
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Infinite Delmar Loop #2
|| 8/6/2006 || 1:57 pm || Comments Off on Infinite Delmar Loop #2 || ||
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