A few months ago I got to do some mapping of Roman roads for Scientific American. The article is now online and I can start sharing the four pieces I made. Have a look at the article to see them all! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-high-resolution-map-transforms-what-we-know-about-roman-roads-and-the-roman-empire/
A few months ago I got to do some mapping of Roman roads for Scientific American. The article is now online and I can start sharing the four pieces I made. Have a look at the article to see them all! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-high-resolution-map-transforms-what-we-know-about-roman-roads-and-the-roman-empire/
If any of you do freelance mapping work (even if it's just occasionally), the Alliance of Freelance Cartographers is conducting its annual survey. Click here to have a look.
We share the results with all mappers out there, so that they can understand what to charge, and what business practices are common. I hope you'll consider filling it out, and sharing it around! The more responses we get, the more reliable information we can give back to all of you.
If you want some past info, here are the results of the 2025 survey.
Some weeks back, people were discussing their opinions on different parts of town, including describing some as more or less wealthy. Since I am a professional mapmaker, I decided to compare peoples' opinions to some real data, and put together this little visualization. It's far from my best work (c.f. somethingaboutmaps.com), but it was just a quick project this evening. I used 2024 American Community Survey data, which handily estimates the number of households in each of about a dozen income brackets. I simplified things by splitting the data into just three brackets, each of which contains about ⅓ of households. Most of the work was in ensuring the dots weren't in the middle of parks, the airport, etc. Still some oddities there, but it's good enough for a doodle.
I went with a dot map rather than the more familiar representation of median income for each Census block group, because I wanted to emphasize the intermixing, rather than boiling each little area down to a single number. Make sure to zoom in.