Map find 4 Campus Map

This is the NYU Campus map in Manhattan. I specifically picked this one out because I have a friend who went to school in NYC and I always wondered what it was like navigating a city to get to class. What I think the designers were going for here is to make the campus look less daunting than is really is. This map makes it look clean and straight forward, and it has names that people that want to go to NYU will recognize like Chelsea, Soho, and Greenwich Village. For an incoming freshman actually navigating this campus, it's probably more like sensory overload.

Map find 3 - Typography

I found this typography map on a blog by James Cheshire. His bio says he teaches in the geography department of University College London. It's a map of London that looks like someone started doodling in class and it turned into a very detailed map. It has a ton of information on it like a historical bit about fish jumping out of the Thames during an earthquake in 1750. You can see hospital signs, neighborhoods, and tourist locations. All the in-between spaces are filled in with text.

Lab 3

This lab took longer than I would like, but it turned out acceptable to me. The sizing for print and blog post was a hang up and if you get to click happy on the canvas you could easily end up editing a layer you had not intended. In any event I'm done. Moving on.

Lab 2

I can be done with Lab 2 now. I could be tweaking, pushing, and pulling forever with this one. It looks right, but it's very difficult to get it exact. There is other homework that needs done so I need to move on

Lab 1

Her is my rendition of Lab 1. Looks good as a graphic, but printing is another story. I've burned up enough paper and ink so I'm calling this one done.

Map Find 2 - Projection

In celebration of the NFL season and our lecture on projection I wanted to post this map. It looks like a throwback territories chart from the early Americas. I would say this map was projected using Lambert conformal conic because the border between the United States and Canada has that curve to it. The orientation of the US looks right. It looks like the early maps we used to name the states in elementary school. We were looking at a Lambert conformal conic projected map and didn't know it yet.   This one was posted by sbnation and was created by Jared Fanning.