Uber—who would thought—have released kepler.gl, an open-source geospatial toolbox. It’s designed to provide the easiest way of visualising geospatial data and gaining useful insights. …
Mapping environments,experiences and information.
Cartograms
Not to be confused with Mapbox’s nonsensical hijacking of the term for creating colour styles, cartograms are extraordinary map types. The relaunch of Worldmapper in April 2018 celebrates this form of mapping. …
Google Earth
When it was first released, 16 years ago, it was amazing being able to travel around the globe and look at anywhere in such remarkable detail… and it still is today! …
National Geographic
Since the very first issue in 1888, the National Geographic magazine has been the benchmark for quality researched articles supported by well-crafted graphics. …
South African Game Reserve
In July, a land owner in South Africa commissioned Jason to design and produce a map that depicted their 27,000 ha game reserve. …
Goldsmiths University
In June, Goldsmiths, University of London, commissioned Jason to create a new campus map and sign artwork …
Heightfields
There is always an aspect of work that emerges out of error, experimentation and/or serendipity. …
Bay Area Bike Share
Big Data Visualisation
Visualisations of ‘big data’ have been commonplace over the last few years, though their is still much debate to be had about the value of many of them beyond their visually interesting presentation. …
A Monitor for a Cartographer?
Screen estate and colour are very important to a cartographer. Maps can be any size from A6 to more than 5m×5m square. …
adobe rgb, colour, resolution, srgb, uhd
Ham & Petersham
Nick Avery Design commissioned Jason to produce a supporting map for a book designed for self-publishing author, Vanessa Fison. …
An Open-source World
Over the last few years we have seen the release of numerous mapping platforms/frameworks to allow the manipulation and representation of open-source mapping and other spatial data. …
D3.js, Kartograph, leaflet, mapbox, maperitive, open-source, openstreetmap, osm
OS Maps – the App
Recently, the Ordnance Survey (OS) updated an app for both mobile and desktop devices that utilises their 1:25,000 Explorer and 1:50,000 Landranger maps—classic OS mapping at it’s best. …
Swiss National Mapping
Swiss topography has long been regarded as the epitome of this form of mapping, often characterised by the iconic hill shading techniques of the late Eduard Imhof, professor of cartography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. …
Derby Riverside
Engaged by Derby City Council (DCC) in August 2016, Jason has designed and produced the mapping for four new wayfinding signs. …
Relief Shading, Part I
As we seem to be moving in to presentational modes where 3D (mapping) is becoming ever more commonplace, enabled by software and hardware advances, it is relevant to look back …
Walks of Churchill Guide
In August, Jason was commissioned by Nick Avery Design to design and produce two maps to be used in a walking tour guide on Winston Churchill. …