They Say Colors Can Be Soothing. Here Are Some Colors.Things are unsettling right now. Hopefully these hues might help calm some nerves out there. Take good care, friends.Mar 21, 20202Mar 21, 20202
Forgotten map typesIt’s fun poking around online archives, blowing off the digital dust and having a look. You never know what you’ll find.Feb 10, 20202Feb 10, 20202
Published indescarteslabs-meditationsSharpening The Focus on Methane EmissionsThe European Space Agency’s launch of the Sentinel-5P satellite in October of 2017 ushered in a new era of atmospheric monitoring from…Sep 12, 2019Sep 12, 2019
A Gratuitous Rundown of More Than Three Decades of Gratuitously Cartographic Advertisements in…Between the pages of Fortune’s decades-long legacy of foundational data visualization sat numerous and expansive maps in advertisements.May 8, 2019May 8, 2019
Published indescarteslabs-meditationsMapmaking in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceWhen you think about machine learning and mapmaking, think lines of code, not The Terminator or AVA picking up a pen drawing a world map.Apr 24, 2019Apr 24, 2019
Earth in Two DimensionsAlbrecht Dürer to Agnes Denes: 100+ map projection illustrations and explainers.Apr 8, 20191Apr 8, 20191
Seeing the Earth at Night with Daytime EyesYou know that feeling of desperation you get when you walk into a darkened movie theater in the middle of a beautiful sunny day and you…Mar 20, 2019Mar 20, 2019
Published indescarteslabs-meditationsWhat We Burn Creates an Eerily Navigable Map of EarthUnless you completely avoided modern society in August and September, you helped make this map.Feb 15, 2019Feb 15, 2019
Published indescarteslabs-meditationsMapping All of the Trees with Machine LearningMuch fuss has been made over city trees in recent years. Urban trees reduce crime and help stormwater management (yay!). Cities and towns…Dec 20, 201813Dec 20, 201813
