Maps

This was written for A Cartographer’s Story, a series of posts on “the power your maps have had within your own life”. I highly encourage you to check the rest out!

My freshman year of college I sent a dumb, pretentious email to a Geography professor on campus asking him for…

I came across this NPR article on using hexagons for tile maps recently. These types of maps, where states are abstracted to an equal-sized shape have been all the rage this past year, featured on NYT, FiveThirtyEight, and the like.