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[Commissioned Map] Sandy Spring Friends School – Tessellation Four
|| 8/2/2009 || 12:00 pm || 1 Comment Rendered || ||

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Sandy Spring Friends School Quilt by Nikolas R. Schiller

These two maps feature identical tessellations of the area around the Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland, but shown at two different spatial scales.

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Sandy Spring Friends School Quilt by Nikolas R. Schiller

– Click here to read more about the commissioned map & rendering series here.
– Click here to view the Google Map of Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland.

[Commissioned Map] Sandy Spring Friends School – Tessellation Three
|| 7/29/2009 || 10:23 pm || 5 Comments Rendered || ||

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Sandy Spring Friends School Quilt by Nikolas R. Schiller

These two maps feature identical tessellations of the area around the Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland, but shown at two different spatial scales and rotate 22.5 degrees.

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Sandy Spring Friends School Quilt by Nikolas R. Schiller

– Click here to read more about the commissioned map & rendering series here.
– Click here to view the Google Map of Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland.

[Commissioned Map] Sandy Spring Friends School – Tessellation Two
|| 7/25/2009 || 9:39 pm || 6 Comments Rendered || ||

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Sandy Spring Friends School Quilt by Nikolas R. Schiller

This map features a different tessellation of the area around the Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland.

– Click here to read more about the commissioned map & rendering series here
– Click here to view the Google Map of Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland.

[Commissioned Map] Sandy Spring Friends School – Tessellation One
|| 7/21/2009 || 8:50 pm || 6 Comments Rendered || ||

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Sandy Spring Friends School Quilt by Nikolas R. Schiller

I was recently commissioned by a person who wishes to have me a make a map of Sandy Spring Friends School as a gift for their friend. The person asked explicitly for a map on fabric that uses the Octagon Quilt Projection. This made the process somewhat easier for me because all I needed to do was create different tessellations of the aerial photography around the school. Often the client does not know the map design they desire most, so I have to spend extra time rendering different designs based off of one or two tessellations. This time around I was able to focus on making numerous tessellations for the client to choose from.

Click here to view the Google Map of Sandy Spring Friends School in Maryland.

Below is the same tessellation, but shown at a different scale:

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Sandy Spring Friends School Quilt by Nikolas R. Schiller

West Sahara Lake Circles Quilt
|| 3/4/2009 || 1:05 pm || Comments Off on West Sahara Lake Circles Quilt || ||

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West Sahara Lake Circles Quilt by Nikolas R. Schiller

Last night, after watching the video in my previous posting, I decided to look around the satellite/aerial imagery of Las Vegas to gauge the level of sprawl. Upon further inspection I discovered how much of Las Vegas is composed of large tracts of suburban, low-density housing. I knew there was a lot of this type of development, but it wasn’t until I started looking closely did I see the pattern of the development.

The neighborhood of Las Vegas that I chose to use for today’s map is called West Sahara. It’s a large retirement community that allows only people aged 55 or older to be residents. I guess you could say that I’m happy that I’m not even allowed to live there for at least 27 years. But as I mused before, will there be any water left in 2036 when I qualify to live in neighborhood? I jest, I would never live there– put me in the mountains or a city, but not in a cookie cutter house surrounded by only people my age.

Anyways, I chose the location because it features one of my favorite transportation designs, the traffic circle. I might make a derivative map of this location later today…

View the Google Map of the West Sahara Lake neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nevada

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A location somewhere within the map

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Boston Common Quilt
|| 4/17/2008 || 6:59 pm || Comments Off on Boston Common Quilt || ||

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Boston Commons Quilt

I’ve had a couple geographers contact me asking if I was attending the AAG’s annual meeting in Boston. My answer has been that I’m too busy on various projects to attend. As a former employee and someone who helped facilitate two annual meetings (Denver & Chicago), I realized that the next meeting I plan on attending will be as either an exhibitor or if the trip is paid for by an employer. I would like to give another presentation again or organize a panel discussion, but, as with most things in life, I’m in no hurry.

Since I have not made any maps of downtown Boston since August of 2005, I decided to download the city, in lieu of going to the city. Pleasantly, I was able to download the city at two different spatial scales and from two different years: 2004 & 2005. So far the imagery looks a lot better than the patchwork design that was previously placed into the public domain. Eight different tessellations later, the entire downtown area will be remapped in the next week. Today’s map features the area around Boston Common, which is the oldest public park in America (created in 1634), and the Massachusetts State House. I chose an Octagon Quilt Projection because I liked the way the center creates a compass rose. Up next will be a derivative of today’s map.

View the Google Map of Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts.

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UCLA Quilt #5
|| 8/14/2006 || 2:23 pm || Comments Off on UCLA Quilt #5 || ||

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UCLA Quilt no. 5 by Nikolas Schiller

The final map of the series….

View the Google Map of the University of California – Los Angeles.

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UCLA Quilt #2
|| 8/11/2006 || 2:16 pm || Comments Off on UCLA Quilt #2 || ||

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UCLA Quilt no. 2 by Nikolas Schiller

This Octagon Quilt Projection map is the second of the series featuring UCLA.

View the Google Map of the University of California – Los Angeles.

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Redlands Quilt
|| 2/5/2006 || 11:12 am || Comments Off on Redlands Quilt || ||

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Redlands Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

Redlands California is the home of Environmental Systems Research Institute, aka ESRI. This privately held company is world leader in GIS software.

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Oklahoma City Quilt #2
|| 2/4/2006 || 12:02 pm || Comments Off on Oklahoma City Quilt #2 || ||

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Oklahoma City Quilt #2 by Nikolas Schiller

This is my second iteration of downtown Oklahoma City.

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Nikolas Schiller is a second-class American citizen living in America's last colony, Washington, DC. This blog is my on-line repository of what I have created or found on-line since May of 2004. If you have any questions or comments, please contact: